Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1911 — BEAVER AND OTTER RETURN [ARTICLE]

BEAVER AND OTTER RETURN

Three Colonies of Former Now in Delaware Valley Waters—Latter In Pennsylvania. Philadelphia.—The return of the beaver and the otter to the Delaware valley region, from which both disappeared completely many years ago, is now established beyond any question. A pair of beavers were discovered dam building two years ago on a branch of the Equinunk creek, a tributary of the Delaware, in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, and now there are three'Solonies of* the Industrious little animals on those waters. On the upper reaches of the Navesink river. In Sullivan county, New York, a family of beavers have been at work for a year past building dams so persistently that several of the tributaries of that stream have been dammed. It is of Interest to note that the dams are nearly on the same spots where more than two generations ago be&vers were doing the same. In Sussex county. New Jersey, on a stream, flowing to the Delaware, a constantly Increasing beaver colony Is following the constructive promptings of its nature so industriously and persistently that farmers are protesting against the law which protects the animals, for their dam building is resulting in damages to farm land by the flooding back of the waters of the dams. Two otter were captured In Pike county, Pennsylvania, last fall, the first In fifty years. Three have been ■een In Sullivan county, one of them In Yorkshire, on the hills overlooking the Delaware at Lackawaxen. Signs of otter’ have alßo been Been in Delaware county, New York, around the

headwaters of the river, where it is said trees have been felled in a manner that plainly indicates that the felling was done by beavers.