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Show KFAVFDQ IN Are to Be Protected by the National Government Gov-ernment Washington, Dec 13. The busy, dam-building beavers of the Yellowstone Yellow-stone National park have proved so attractive to visitors there that the government, desirous ot making the national parks as much as possible tho "playgrounds of the people," has about decided to place colonics of beavers In other parks. "Tho beaver deserves a place In the history of tho country," said an Interior department official today, "for this animal was a potent factor fac-tor In the exploration of the Rocky Mountain region, the early trappers usually being In search of beavers when " they penetrated and explored the fastnesses of tho mountains. The beaver, which formerly abounded throughout North America, is now round only In thinly-settled regions and in parks whore thev are protected." |