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Last week one Edward Boop, laborer, trapped a 29-lb. beaver. What made the catch newsworthy was the fact that it occurred not in Canada or the U. S. northwest, but near Glen Iron in Pennsylvania. For the first time in 31 years Pennsylvanians were free to trap beavers, from March 1. to April...
Though no beaver had been seen in Pennsylvania since 1900, the State legislature in 1903 declared a permanent closed season. Twelve years later a pair of beavers were brought from Wisconsin, turned loose in a State game refuge. At intervals in the next nine years Pennsylvania's Game Commission imported 46 more pairs. The beavers settled down to stay. Needing deep water for their island lodges, they gnawed down trees, floated them through canals of their own making, gathered up sticks, stones and mud. With their strong front paws they packed all such material together in high, solid dams...
With each beaver mother producing two to six cubs per year, a protected beaver population roughly doubles each year. By last year Pennsylvania's 94 beavers had become 15,000 and citizens had started to complain. The beavers had flooded farms and roads, plugged up mill races, destroyed valuable timber. Their year's damage amounted to $20.000. With mathematics proving that, if nothing interfered, the State would have 1,976,080.000 beavers doing $2,623,040,000 worth of damage in 1950, Pennsylvania's Game Commission this year called a halt...
...Clubs will start a series of Spring concerts, the first since the Christmas trip, with a concert at the Beaver School, Chestnut Hill, tomorrow night. The conert will begin at 7.30 o'clock...
...program of the meeting was revealed yesterday by Eugene R. Smith, president of the Association and headmaster of the Beaver Country Day School. Various educational topics will be discussed by a group of very distinguished speakers...