Show BEAVERS DO 00 MUCH MISCHIEF property owners in the adirondack aro are uneasy over the situation they have created because e the limited intelligence ot of the beaver goes no further than its own immediate purposes owners of property in the Adiron flacks are wishing that the beaver was less industrious and seriously wondering what is to be done to stop the increasing number of these milling workers from decreasing the value and beauty of this famous region the forest rangers of the commission sas a writer in the albany journal last summer estimated tI mated the he undesirable results that had follo followed Ned the building of nearly WO beaver dares dams and found that an area of about acres had been flooded and something like worth of good merchantable standing timber amber was being destroyed considering si that the number of heavers beavers now estimated at about is believed to be increasing about a year the damage bids fair to become a serious problem not only do they destroy valuable timber but they are steadily changing the character of the adirondack scenery along the water courses and altering the shore line of the lakes yet the region without any beavers at nil all would not be the adl ron dacks as nature made it and as those who now go there to enjoy its beauty like to find it time was when the beavers seemed likely to vanish and the state abote took them under its protection tec tion now the dang danger r seems to be webie that they are so well protected that they will eventually come back in numbers out of proportion to the normal population of beavers when the adirondacks were subject t to a the conditions of life in a wild country |