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Beaver.
Barrett's - June 10-11 (continued - Page 4)
A slight rise of ground on
the creek floor near the back
end of the whole pond contained
several bank burrows which
appeared to be in use.
Our third actual beaver observation
was made that evening at 7:30
of an individual which swam the
entire length of the pond, upstream
toward these burrows, and
disappeared in some one of them.
The colony 1/4 mile below
Mr. Barrett's home stead has been
annoyed a great deal by irrigation
water users. Here there is one
big dam and a series of four
smaller dams, built downstream
below the big old dam. The
first of these smaller dams below
the big dam appears now to be the
chief center of construction.
Mr. Barrett reported that during
the dry summer of 1931, an
irrigation ditch rider had been
authorized to destroy the dam to
allow water to pass for irrigation.