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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga32_2cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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88 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME
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Fig. 20. Distribution map of beaver plantings in California. panies, particularly the Hudson's Bay Company, These companies sent into California well-organized "fur brigades" that systematically trapped the available beaver territory until about the middle of the century when it became no longer profitable. James Ohio Pattie, who, with a party of seven, trapped the Colorado River in 1827, was probably the first to enter what is now California in search of beavers. A year later, in 1828, Jedediah Smith entered the Great Valley and traversed its length as far as the present site of Red Bluff, taking beavers on the American and Feather Rivers and on Butte Creek. He also found them in goodly numbers along the Sacramento River in the vicinity of Stony Creek, Deer Creek, and Toomes Creek. Smith also visited the Trinity and Klamath Rivers finding beaver signs near what was apparently the mouth of the latter. The Hudson's Bay Company first sent an organized *' fur brigade into California in 1828. This group of trappers, under the leadership of

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