Show ping Up e en n erv e Science Service Canada Looks to Beavers for Key to Drouth Problem Their Return May l Stem Erosion of Soil Also Ottawa Comeback of beavers will play a part in solving the drouth and soil soilA A erosion problems in Canada Because of their industrious building of dams and underwater underwater underwater under under- water homes beavers regulate regulate regulate regu regu- late the flow of water make streams navigable create reservoirs for time of small rainfall and so indirectly keep sufficient seepage in inthe inthe inthe the ground to allow trees and grasses to grow In Iii charge of the venture Is C Canada's Canadas Canadas Canada's Can Can- adas ada's beaver man Grey Owl Grey Owl likes beavers He has them In to lunch he takes them on his travels Grey Owl feeds Leeds baby beavers milk from a syringe he likes the young beavers wet on his knee He lets them build their house housein in his cabin and delights when the they chew the legs of his chairs Helps Beavers Build Grey Owl decided that If the beavers beavers beavers beav beav- ers were once more to be numerous numerous numer numer- ous they must overcome their fear of mankind Here Is how he started to cultivate vate the beavers beavers' confidence When J he saw the animals having difficulties ties with extra large trees his axe cut through the timber quicker than their teeth The beavers found trees chopped down for them ready to use in building their houses They found a man actually helping them construct dams plug the difficult places make their houses water water- proof Grey Owls Owl's w wife e taught the beavers to come at her calL Beavers swim out to her canoe Wherever Grey Owl and and go for the Canadian government government gov gov- they in this way help the beavers o of their new locality teach them to trust man Where they found injured or orphaned orphaned orphaned or or- baby beaver they nursed and fed them They found beaver liked apples and boiled rice in addition addition addi addi- tion lion to their natural food of willow willow wil wil- vil- vil low shoots and leaves Grey Owl found that the beavers cry like humans humans humans hu hu- hu- hu mans that their voice registers feelings feelings feelings feel feel- ings with inflections easy to interpret Interpret interpret inter inter- pret that beavers have the simpler emotions show gratitude and tion Changes Working Hours ours To further aid in studying the beaver Grey Owl has been able to change the beaver from a night worker to a day worker so that cameras could film the little animals animals animals ani ani- mals in action Due to Grey Owls Owl's perseverance with these animals numerous government films tUrns have been made to show the necessity of saving the beaver from constant hunting The results are already showing after Grey Owls Owl's few years of ot work with the beavers for the Canadian I government In all the game preserves preserves pre pre- serves where he has operated beavers are reported on the increase increase in in- Increase crease and where his system has been applied in other sections s of ot the Dominion the results are equally equal equal- ly promising In addition waterfowl which have found in ha recent years 1 difficulty in hi finding marshes for nesting have been more numerous in the parks where Grey Owl has operated showing that beavers through their dam building create sufficient seepage near marshes which would otherwise have dried up in recent drouth years |