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FOREST AND STREAM 
May, 1922 
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THE CASE AGAINST 
THE BEAVER 
{Cotitinucd from page 203) 
and also because very few people would 
take the trouble to open bait fish to see. 
However, I have some evidence on this 
point. Mr. Chas. Burbans, of Warrens- 
burg', informs me that he caught a bait 
fish last summer and noticed the tail of 
a small fish sticking out of its mouth. 
He found it was a young trout, about 3 
inches long. Mr. Ott Cross and Mr. D. 
C. Farrington, of Indian Lake, two of 
the most experienced guides in the 
woods and to whom I presented this 
article for criticism have written me, 
saying that in their opinion this is exact- 
ly what is taking place. 
It has been estimated by authoritative 
source that there are 73,000 beaver now 
in the Adirondacks, but I believe the 
number to be underestimated. Almost 
all our streams are now blocked by their 
dams, and what few are still free of ob- 
struction will surely be blocked within 
the next few years. Under these condi- 
tions, what is the use of the State spend- 
ing money for fish hatcheries? What 
is the use of people spending their time 
and money for distributing trout fry or 
fingerlings which are foredoomed to the 
gullet of some bait-fish or condemned to 
die miserably from lack of cold water? 
The water in the beaver flows is about 
the color of coffee, and late in the sum- 
mer has about the consistency of pea 
soup, conditions under which trout can- 
not thrive. 
While beaver dams may be pictur- 
esque, surely their flows, filled with dirty 
water covered with slime and surrounded 
by dead trees, are not picturesque. The 
commission puts up notices along the 
road at various places where there has 
been a fire, calling attention to what care- 
lessness has done. M'hy not be con- 
sistent and put up notices at the beaver 
flows, which look much worse than any 
burned place, calling attention to what 
could have been prevented there. On 
the upper end of the Brandreth Lake 
stream is one of the last stands of virgin 
pine in the Adirondacks ; some friends 
and myself last summer measured trees 
over six feet in diameter. The beavers 
are there building dams ; some of the 
trees are already dead and others are 
dying. No such trees will grow again in 
hundreds of years, yet we sit quietly by 
and allow beavers to destroy them. 
The situation is truly appalling. The 
conditions this coming season are going 
to be much worse. We must have wise 
legislation at once. If there is any offi- ' 
cial blundering, any petty politics, any 
delay, the day is lost. I believe the best 
remedy for the conditions is an open 
season on beaver. If it is going to be I 
left to the State to catch them, as has 
been suggested from time to time, it is 
going to cause all kinds of dissatisfaction 
and, what is worse, delay. 
Every year thousands of sportsmen go 
into the Adirondacks to fish, all of them 
spending some money and many of them 
hiring guides, camps, boats and all the . 
paraphernalia that goes to make up a 
trip; the boarding houses, hotels and il 
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