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FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1921 
WHEN THE FIGHTING SMALL-MOUTH BREAKS AWAY OR 
THAT WORLD-BEATER MUSKY TOSSES THE HOOK— 
Blame it on yourself for not reading 
FISHING TACKLE AND KITS 
By Dixie Carroll 
Say, Dixie must have written a million words and then chopped out all the scales and 
fins off it until there’s nothing but MEAT — 334 pages of it. 
Not a line in it that isn't interesting to the old timer or educating to the embryo angler. 
Night-fishing, the kind where you get all the thrills of standing on your head atop the 
Washington Monument — you can’t tell where the snags or the weeds are — sometimes you 
even think the bass strike the old plug so hard that they would like to jump in the canoe and 
bite your fingers off. 
You’d better send us your check for $3.00 and we’ll send you the greatest feast of 
piscatorial reason and flow of soul that Dixie Carroll or any other outdoor writer ever spilled 
on the subject. 
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In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will 
had spread into ten counties. Their 
dams were most numerous and their 
ravages most severe in Hamilton and 
Herkimer counties, in the heart of the 
forest. It was in those counties that “a 
few pairs” were liberated in 1905. In 
August, 1919, forest rangers counted 
363 beaver dams in Hamilton County 
and 127 in Herkimer County. In Ham- 
ilton County these dams had flooded 
5,516 acres, destroying $42,565 worth of 
timber and in Herkimer County they 
had flooded 1,079 acres and destroyed 
timber valued at $7,925. 
These are dams that have been count- 
ed, damages that have been computed. 
According to the estimate of the Con- 
servation Commission an equal number 
of dams remained uncounted and an 
equal amount of damage probably had 
been wrought which went unreckoned. 
Every beaver dam in the Adirondacks, 
it was estimated by the commission, 
caused $90 damage. 
A single beaver colony may have 
more than one dam. On the other hand 
there are numerous gay young bachelor 
beaver which have no dams, houses, de- 
pendents or responsibilities. A beaver 
dam may indicate the presence of three 
or four beaver or it may back up water 
to shelter a score. Rough calculations 
based on the figures of the Conservation 
Commission — now a year old— -lead to 
the conclusion that at least 15,000 
beaver inhabit the Adirondacks to-day. 
Quite probably the number is 20,000. 
F ROM an interesting experiment, the 
beaver in the Adirondacks has be- 
come a vexatious problem. “Inter- 
esting but destructive animals” the Con- 
servation Commission calls them in its 
report for 1919, saying: “They have 
frequently flooded highways and even 
railroads.” 
“For every beaver dam built,” the re- 
port continues, “someone has to pay $90. 
Moreover it is difficult to place an in- 
trinsic value on damage done to scenery. 
Dams are frequently built at the outlets 
of lakes or ponds surrounded with beau- 
tiful forest. Where the water level of 
the pond is raised by the dams the tim- 
ber around the shore line is killed. The 
result is a fringe of dead trees around 
the water’s edge in place of the natural 
green foliage. 
“Something must be done to prevent 
such large and widespread damage. 
Probably the removal of protection on 
beaver for a short open season will 
prove the most effective means of solv- 
ing the problem.” 
A bill to fix an open season for beaver 
in the state of New York was intro- 
duced at the 1920 session of the Leg- 
islature. It was opposed by State Sen- 
ator Henry M. Sage and others, and in 
its place a bill was passed authorizing 
agents of the Conservation Commission 
to kill beaver, as well as to destroy their 
structures wherever, in their judgment, 
such steps were necessary. 
Whatever criticisms may be levelled 
at the State Legislature of New York, 
it has yet to pass a bill of vital concern 
to the interests of conservation without 
scanning its contents and possible re- 
sults. The forest and game legislation 
identify you. 
