Show BEAVERS DO MUCH MISCHIEF property owners in the Adiron adirondack clacks are uneasy over the situation they have created because the limited intelligence of the beaver goes no further than its ita own immediate purposes owners of property in the adirondacks are wishing that the beaver was less industrious and seriously wondering what la is to be done to stop the increasing slumber of these willing workers from decreasing creaSing JC the value and beauty of this famous region the forest rangers of the conservation commission says a writer in the albany journal last summer estimated the undesirable results that had followed the building of nearly beaver dams and found that an area of about acres had bad been flooded bloode and something like worth of good merchantable standing timber was being destroyed considering si that tho the number of beavers now flow estimated at about Is believed to be increasing about a year rear the damage bids fair to become a 6 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 all would not be the adl ron dacks as nature made it and as those who now mow go there to enjoy its beauty like to find it time was when the beavers seemed likely to vanish and the state took them under its protection tec tion now the danger seems to be that they are so well protected that they will eventually come back in numbers out of proportion to the normal population of beavers when ben the adirondacks were subject to the conditions of life in a wild country |