Lake Umbagog.
1907.
since time immemorial. Raccoons are rather common
and generally distributed. Otters, Fishers and Sables
may still be found about or not far from the lake
but all these species are becoming very scarce if not
in serious danger of local extermination. The Mink is
perhaps similarly threatened although it is still not
uncommon. There are Weasels of both the larger and
smaller species but they are seldom seen except by the
professional trappers who now find a ready market for
their fur - formerly considered quite worthless. The Beaver
was at one time brought very near to extinction by the trappers but
it has been protected by law at every season for the past
few years with the result that it has multiplied
exceedingly and restocked many of its former haunts.
 In the summer of 1907 I examined a large inhabited
Beaver house on the banks of Cambridge River but a 
short distance above the Abbott Mill and was told of
a dam which extended across this stream only a 
few miles further up.
mammals
The Muskrat thrives here as elsewhere with little or
no protection. Although obtuse & confiding to such a
degree that it may be shot or trapped without difficulty
by the (?) (?) it is so very
hardy and prolific that it continues to maintain itself
even where most persistently hunted and whenever
left unmolested for a time quickly makes good
whatever numerical losses it may have suffered. It
haunts most of the coves of the lake and is
especially abundant about its outlet and at
the mouth of Cambridge River.