THE WILD LIFE OF LAKE SUPERIOR 



Photograph by George Shiras, 3d 



BEAVER WORKING ON SUBSTRUCTURE OF THE DAM THREE FEET BELOW THE SURFACE 



This scene represents one of the many beavers that, for the past six years, have endeavored 

 to fill in the sluiceway of the lumber dam above the author's Whitefish Lake camp (see page 

 198). This beaver fired the flashlight when he was several feet below the surface. Body 

 takes white, oil on hair reflecting light. Note the hair separated in strands by the 'current. 



offered a greater variety of vegetables 

 and small fruits, the temptation proved 

 irresistible. 



When the garden patch was a simple 

 one, and unguarded before the hunting 

 season, the bucks were formerly active in 

 these forays ; but few came later, the gal- 

 lantry of the mating season sometimes 

 inducing an antlered escort to jump the 

 fence over which had already gone his 

 less timorous partner. 



Does, fawns, and yearlings, totaling 

 some seasons more than a dozen, each 

 night or so registered their presence and 

 respective ages by the clear-cut hoof- 

 prints in the garden soil. Rarely did one 

 come before midnight and seldom were 

 any seen in the vicinity during the day. 



In the past decade a record has been 

 kept of the vegetables and fruits most 

 preferred, with a notation when there 



was a marked departure any season by 

 groups or individuals. 



RASPBERRY BUSHES FIRST VISITED BY DEER 



Not until the fawns were free to fol- 

 low their mothers and the garden offered 

 the first of the ripening crops would there 

 be a visitor. On or about the middle of 

 July the wild raspberry bushes close by 

 the fence showed a clipping of the newer 

 growth, followed by a nibbling on the 

 tender bark of border fruit trees. A few 

 days later, when the darkened windows 

 gave assurance that the occupants had re- 

 tired, the vegetable patches close by the 

 cabins were visited. 



In the order of choice, and somewhat 

 determined by the rate of growth, came 

 the carrot and beet tops, lettuce, and new 

 shoots of domestic raspberries, white 

 clover, peas, Brussels sprouts, and white 



