. Annual report . eleased in the Adirondacks . .34 Recent Rapid Increase As a natural result of these liberations and of the protective laws of1895 and 1904, together with a growing public interest favorable to theprotection of these animals, the beaver has been on the increase steadilysince 1895. By the year 1900 I estimate there were fifteen beavers in theAdirondacks. The Report of the Commission for 1905 puts the number atforty; in 1906 at seventy-five. These estimates agree with my own. Atthe present time (December, 1907) I should say there were about onehundred beavers in Northern New Yor
. Annual report . eleased in the Adirondacks . .34 Recent Rapid Increase As a natural result of these liberations and of the protective laws of1895 and 1904, together with a growing public interest favorable to theprotection of these animals, the beaver has been on the increase steadilysince 1895. By the year 1900 I estimate there were fifteen beavers in theAdirondacks. The Report of the Commission for 1905 puts the number atforty; in 1906 at seventy-five. These estimates agree with my own. Atthe present time (December, 1907) I should say there were about onehundred beavers in Northern New York.* It is reasonable to supposethat within a few weeks (spring of 1908) this number will be increased, bybirths, to at least 150. * Three or four years ago there were well-founded reports of the presence of one or more beaversat Chippewa Bay, St. Lawrence county — on the St. Lawrence river. I am not sure whether theseapparent stragglers from Canada still remain. They are not considered in the present Photos by Harry V. Radford. AT THE MOMENT OF LIBERATION. HISTORY OF THE ADIRONDACK BEAVER. 417 For purposes of comparison, to show the rate of decrease and laterincrease of the beaver, the following table is here presented: Number of Wild Beavers in Northern New York During Three Hundred Years (Estimated) 1609 (At coming of white man) 1,000,000 1S00 5,000 1820 1, 000 1830 500 1840 250 1850 100 i860 60 1870 30 1880 25 1885 20 1890 • 15 1895 5 or 10 19°° J5 1905 4° i9°6 75 1907 . 100 1908 150 1909 (Three hundred years after coming of white man) ? There are probably as many beavers to-day in the North Woods ofXew York as there were in 1850.— fifty-seven years ago,— and more thanin i860. They are already becoming widely distributed, and are makingtheir appearance on many streams which have not known the presenceof a beaver, or shown any marks of their occupancy, for over half a century. What the future of the Adirondack beaver will be — whether, aidedby the wis
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