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BEAVER SHOULD BE PROTECTED. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Complaints by two sojourners in the Adiron¬ 
dack wilderness that beavers have done some 
little damage have caused the Conservation Com¬ 
mission to issue a bulletin advising the public of 
the conditions and promising a thorough in¬ 
vestigation. 
So far as the records show the beaver was 
practically extinct in the great North woods in 
1895. It is stated that in that year Adirondack 
trappers killed the last two known to exist. The 
slaughter took place near Madawaska pond. As 
a result the legislature of the following winter 
passed a strict protective law and the few people 
who opposed the extinction of the species starteu 
a movement to restore the beaver to its natural 
habitat. It was not until 1903, however, that the 
legislature appropriated $500 to be used toward 
the work of restoration. The late Harry V. 
Radford took vigorous hold of the movement to 
bring back the beaver to the Adirondacks and 
that year the commission bought three pairs 
which were wintered at Old Forge hatchery and 
carefully looked after by the Browns Tract 
Guides Association. Four more were bought 
later but one of these died. J. Edward Ball 
of the guides association reported that during 
the winter the beaver “during their temporary 
confinement consumed several cords of wood.” 
These beaver were released in the latter part 
of April in 1905, the record stating that two 
were set free on the south branch of Moose 
river and four others on the North East inlet to 
Big Moose lake. Some of these were reported 
to have moved over into the Beaver river coun¬ 
try fully 200 miles northeast of the place where 
they were originally liberated. Others which es¬ 
caped from the estate of Edward H. Litchfield 
added to the colonies thus formed and settled 
near Big Tupper lake. An estimate then made 
showed that there were in all about 40 beaver 
