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Jackson Lake
273.
July 7, 1932
I also found an adult beaver sleep-
by the lake, and what appeared
to be a trap for catching bass
mink. It was a wooden box about
2' x 6" x 4" with wire door at one end
& wooden slide door at other & a trip
inside. Remains of a fish was
still in the trap; it had apparently
been lost.
Old beaver dams stretch for
perhaps 1000 feet across the swamp
between the Swan lakes and the
lower lake, as though there were
a much larger lake a few years
ago.
Moran to Mammoth July 8, 1932
Plecat Creek was scouted in the
swamp region above Flag. Swans were
reported to be there but we found none.
The swamp appears to be ideal for swans
& cranes. A Great Blue Heron rookery
containing at least 10 pairs of herons
was sighted on the south side of the
creek in the tops of tall dead pine
trees. They made a terrific squawking
every few minutes, but they stayed in
the tree tops.
Returning via Lake & Canyon
we saw the same black bear at ab