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J.G.Hall
1954
244
Sept 12 Sagehen Creek, 6500ft, 3 mi. NW Hobart Mills, Nevada Co. Calif.
Upper return trip it got to within 3 feet of
me & I wasn't sure whether it was
going to "charge" or not. At 7:20
I crossed over to the S side via an
upstream dam, the one on which I'd killed
both this season's trapping casualty
beavers, and climbed a tree. I'd
barely got settled before old double-notch
climbered up over this dam & little "Bew"
when she got my scent on the dam. She
evidently remembered my scent from the
marking & tagging experience. She swam
around in this pond, dove, surfaced,
got back over same crossing & splashed,
then chewed on an alder briefly before
coming back up over the same dam where
my scent was. She went to the north
crossing, chewed at a stick in the dam,
than went down over this dam to the next
lower dam at 6:30, then on down to dead-
fall dam where I'd first seen her & the
small beaver upon my arrival. 6:40 a
doe and spotless fawn seen working slow-
ly up n shore from region of Jim's dz.
6:45 got down went over to climb up
to my "regular" seat ols tree. 6:50
med-sized beaver whose tail was marked.