Lake Umbagog
1907.
of their old-time hardihood and picturesqueness while the shore
of the lake are lined in places by summer camps and its
waters are ploughed by several swift steamers besides an ever
increasing number of canoes and other small pleasure craft. But
the deep, pathless forest remains almost untrodden except by
lumbermen and native hunters and in many respects it is
essentially unchanged. Nor has it ceased to harbor at least 
a few representations of nearly all the mammals and birds
which formerly inhabited or visited it. Its innermost reaches 
have long since ceased of course to ring with the howling
of hungry Wolves, the Louparvier no longer stalks and
springs on the cowering Hares which haunt its matted
"cedar" swamps, and its moss-carpeted logs and mountain
crests are seldom if ever visited now by the restless,
wide-roving Caribou. The last Wolves disappeared
more than half a century ago but the Louparvier was common
and the Caribou sometimes seen in large herds as lately 
as 1875 or 1880. These three species with the Cougar,
of whose occasional occurrence near the lake less than 
forty years ago there is some apparently good evidence,
are the only mammals known or believed to have deserted the
region since it was first visited by while men.
The Wolverine is said to have been taken in Maine
in early colonial times but I have been unable to
learn that this animal was ever known, even by
tradition, to the hunters at Lake Umbagog. 
Mammals