204 ROMANCE OF THE BEAVER 
protective laws and the making of parks or reserves 
have, we hope, rendered this fear groundless, and 
the beaver that has done so much in the past to 
help in the development of Canada will find 
sanctuary in the land of its forefathers. So that 
the prediction made by Lydekker in 1894 in which 
he says “both the European and American beaver 
are doomed to extinction as wild animals at no very 
distant date” will not be fulfilled. 
