CONTENTS 



1. An Opportunity for Great Public Service Col. Henry S. Graves 



2. An Investigation of the Beaver in Herkimer and 



Hamilton Counties of the Adirondacks Dr. Charles Eugene Johnson 



3. The Life of the Yellowstone Beaver Mr. Edward R. Warren 



4. Current Station Notes The Director and Editor 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATES page 



Plate 23. The Late Viscount Bryce, 1838-1922. Courtesy The Macmillan 



Company Frontispiece 



Plate 24. Colonel Henry S. Graves, Member of Honorary Advisory Council 112 



FIGURES 

 Figure 1. Constable Creek, one of the sources of Big Moose Lake. 



View above second beaver dam from mouth of creek 119 



Figure 2. Constable Creek; about a hundred yards above view in figure 1; 



showing beaver lodge and flooded woodland 119 



Figure 3. Constable Creek; another view of the beaver flow. Mixed birch 



and spruce forest 120 



Figure 4. Constable Pond; looking toward the outlet. Fringe of spruce 



timber under water 120 



Figure 5. Constable Pond; flooded bay at inlet. Drowned timber chiefly 



of spruce 123 



Figure 6. One of the dams in outlet creek of Lower Gull Lake; 146 feet long 



and 8 feet, 8 inches high 123 



Figure 7. Twitchell Creek; view a half mile west of highway. Spruce 



timber, long since drowned 124 



Figure 8. Outlet creek of Russian Pond; showing dam two and a half feet 



high, damaging timber along the stream 124 



Figure 9. Lower Gull Lake; dam at outlet flooding narrow fringe of forest 



around the lake 127 



Figure 10. The lower of the Two Sisters Lakes; dam at outlet flooding a 



fringe of spruce timber 127 



Figure II. Beaver Pond at junction of Sunshine and Jack Pond Creeks, 



Twitchell Lake district 128 



Figure 12. Dam at outlet of Oswego Pond, Twitchell Lake district. This 



has flooded an area extending half a mile above the pond. ... 128 

 Figure 13. Witchopple Lake; view of part of northwest shore and dam at 



outlet 131 



Figure 14. View along inlet creek of Witchopple Lake. Because of the low 



banks this beaverflow is submerging considerable spruce timber. 131 

 Figure 15. New dam on outlet stream of Razorback Pond, on property of 



Champlain Realty Company. Stand of large spruce above 



dam endangered by flooding 132 



Figure 16. Beaver flow on creek entering Round Pond, northern Long Lake 



region 132 



Figure 17. Beaver Pond on Pine Brook, northern Long Lake region. Chiefly 



cut-over and burned land, so that damage from flow is negligible. 135 

 Figure 18. Aspen, 17.5 inches in diameter, cut by beaver; north shore of Lake 



Eaton 135 



Figure 19. Salmon Brook, Blue Mountain Lake region; dam 75 feet long 



and 3 feet high, causing flow about a mile in length 136 



Figure 20. Salmon Brook, Blue Mountain Lake region. Dead spruce timber 



in the long flow on this creek 136 



Figure 21. McCabes Creek, Indian Lake region; spruce killed in beaver flow. 139 



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