. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. September, 1943 Mohr: Furbearer Distribution and Income 525 in 1939, the writer collected one of this very small species dead on the highway as far south as Henkel in the southeast corner of Lee County. BADGER Distribution. — Until badgers were given year-around protection, these ani- mals were commonly caught by trappers in a group of counties in northern Illi- nois, most of them in the five counties in the northwestern part of the state that are heavily stippled on the distribution map, fig. 16. The number was usually be- tween 5 and 15 annually
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. September, 1943 Mohr: Furbearer Distribution and Income 525 in 1939, the writer collected one of this very small species dead on the highway as far south as Henkel in the southeast corner of Lee County. BADGER Distribution. — Until badgers were given year-around protection, these ani- mals were commonly caught by trappers in a group of counties in northern Illi- nois, most of them in the five counties in the northwestern part of the state that are heavily stippled on the distribution map, fig. 16. The number was usually be- tween 5 and 15 annually in each of these counties. Moderate numbers were caught in those counties that are lightly stippled on the map, all of them close to the heavily. O ISOLATED RECORD Fig. 16.—Distribution of badgers in Illinois as indicated by fur-takers' monthly reports for the seasons of 1929-30, 1930-31 and 1934-35 through 1936-37. Data from these seasons of monthly reports have been transferred to the map in such a way that the county having the largest average catch per fur-taker has the greatest density of dots; other counties are dotted proportionally. stippled counties. The code in force July 1, 1937, placed badgers on the protected list with no open season. Since that date the legal killing of badgers has been lim- ited to those animals destroying property. Circles show localities from which badg- ers have been reported occasionally, fig. 16. Most of these badgers were carried there as caged animals and finally liberated; others were pioneering far away from the main body of their present range. They do not occur regularly in the counties in which the circles are shown. Kennicott (1855) stated that badgers were formerly common in Cook County and were, when he wrote, still common farther south. Later he added (1859) that in Illinois badgers were once numer- ous at least as far south as the middle of the state and were seen 30 years before near the Kaskaskia River. At that time they st
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