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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ffects of dams upon rivers and outlets of lakes in the Adirondacks havebeen both disastrous and beneficial, so far as the pleasures of sportsmen areconcerned. Two notable instances are the dam raising Cranberry Lake, constructedmany years ago, the other of comparatively late construction on Beaver Riverwhere the Beaver River Club has its preserve. The former flooded a large tractof land, made the formerly beautiful lake a region of ghostly dead trees along theshores lined with the groaning dead wood, in pain with every wave, and onthe low grounds great swamps of tangled upturned roots and still standing deadtrees, a veritable picture of natures woe and despair. Time, however, has atlength made the lake shores normal again, and the State has made a commodiouspassage way up the sluggish inlet to the mushroom town of Wanakena. Enlarge-ment of the lake and the backing of the waters of the stream entering it madethis body of water, by its size and other conditions, one of the best breeding
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JOE DUNBAR. FISHES AND FISHING IN THE ADIRONDACK^. 285 grounds and fish food productive waters in the Adirondacks, where the largesttrout grow and afford the finest sport yet remaining in the whole State. Fora time it seemed as if fish pirates, lumbermen and increasing hordes of fishermencould not affect the fish production, but the time has at length arrived when eventhese grand waters are yielding to the inevitable effects of abuse and overfishing. The Beaver River dam flooded the long valley through which the river usedto wander and wind, with beauty and delight at almost every turn of its crookedness,and where the good fishing holes were, and numerous deer tracks on sandypoints told of the nightly family gatherings by the grateful waters. The bushy,line-entangling alders, and the overhanging trees and all the green and lushvegetation, and bird songs, and camping places, and everything else at the memoryof which the old sportsmans heart leaps, are gone, all gone, and a desolationin

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