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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ly visit Canada, the RockyMountains and the Southwest, and who even cross the ocean to hunt still largerand more savage game. Could the Black Bear of this State, an animal absolutelyharmless to human life, yet affording the keenest sport to its pursuers, enjoy fora few years the protection of a close season it would be possible to introduceBear hunting as a feature of Adirondack life, even as it is now carried on asa profitable sport in many parts of the West and South. The Commissionrecommends that, as the Bear is commercially valueless during the summermonths, his pursuit be prohibited at this season of the year, and that suitableregulations be provided as to trapping. Tl)e Reaver. This most interesting of North American fur-bearing animals, which formerlyexisted so abundantly in this State, is on the brink of extinction within ourborders. No animal, says Dr. C. Hart Merriam, has figured more prominentlyin the affairs of any nation than has the Beaver in the early history of the new
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A HIGH ONE. FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 147 world. Its influence on the exploration, colonization and settlement of thiscountry was very great. The trade in its peltries proved a source of competitionand strife not only among the local merchants but also between the severalcolonies, disputes over the boundaries having frequently arisen from this causealone. Indeed, on more than one occasion jealousy of the Beaver trade led toserious difficulties in the struggles for supremacy between the three rival powers,the Dutch, English and French. How great the number of wild Beavers in this State once was may beinferred from the statement of the Dutch author quoted by Dr. Merriam, who,writing in 1671, states that at that time the colony of New Netherlands furnished80,000 Beavers a year. As late as the year 1815 we learn from De Kay thatthe Beaver still existed in such plentiful numbers in the Adirondack region thatit was possible for a party of St. Regis Indians, who that year ascended th

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