Photo by George Shiras, ard 
yeixow-haire;d or northwestern porcupine, which had come to gnaw one 
oe our shed anteers 
It became necessary finally to suspend these horns on wires from trees to escape porcu- 
pine and squirrels. "During the several weeks spent in studying and photographing moose 
near Skilak Lake, the network of runways throughout the poplar and birch thickets showed 
very plainly that this was one of the great winter feeding ranges of these animals, and that 
a systematic search would doubtless reveal many fine antlers. In this we were successful 
from the start, and nearly every afternoon, on taking the canoe for camp, one or two big 
or oddly shaped horns were a part of our cargo. And if the camera failed in its quest on 
such occasions, here were the discarded crowns of the giant moose, many of them worthy 
of portraiture and many of permanent preservation. By carefully noting the course of our 
rambles, in less than a week a square mile was pretty well covered and brought to view 26 
nearly perfect antlers, aside from nearly an equal number found in the bordering spruce 
forests, which the porcupines had, with few exceptions, badly gnawed." 
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