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Lake Umbagog.
Southern end of Lake.
1897.
May 15
  Clear and cool with fresh, steady W. to N.W. wind.
  We breakfasted at 5.30 A.M. and by 6 I was
off in one of the canoes sailing out around B. Point
and down into the cove behind where I landed near
Crocker's camping ground and took a walk back into
the beech and maple woods behind. They are badly
injured and disfigured by the fire of last spring &
but few birds seemed to be in or near there although
there were many singing in the hemlocks near the
water. The Lake shore has been sadly marred, however,
by the lumbermen who last winter cut all the spruces
and many of the fine, tall white pines all the way
from this landing to the deep cove near the Tidswell 
place. Lumbering is a very different business now from
what it was twenty years ago. Then only the larger
trees were taken; now the pulp mills devour everything
and nothing is spared thicker at the base than five
inches! The spruce forests of this whole region are,
indeed, fast melting away & the mountain slopes are
changing rapidly as the dark evergreens are weeded out
by the lumbermen, leaving only the hardwoods & a few
unsound white pines. The hemlocks, however, are not as
yet molested.
[margin]I visit the
lake shore
north of
B, Point.[/margin]
[margin]Lake shores
sadly marred
by the 
lumbermen
Changed 
methods of
lumbering
Spruce
forests fast
melting 
away[/margin]
  These changes in the character of the forests must
make speedy & considerable changes in the bird fauna.
The shore near Crocker's camp, for instance, has been
one of the chief breeding grounds for the Bay breasted
Warbler. They will breed there no longer, now that
all the spruces are gone.
  Returned to the house boat by 9 A.M.