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100 1 _aMills, Enos A.,
_d1870-1922
245 1 0 _aIn Beaver World
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2013
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2013-03-09
505 0 _aWorking like a beaver -- Our friend the beaver -- The beaver past and present -- As others see him -- The beaver dam -- Harvest time with beavers -- Transportation facilities -- The primitive house -- The beaver's engineering -- The ruined colony -- Beaver pioneers -- The colony in winter -- The original conservationist -- Bibliographical note.
508 _aE-text prepared by Greg Bergquist, Matthew Wheaton, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://archive.org/details/americana)
520 _a"In Beaver World" by Enos A. Mills is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book is a comprehensive study of beaver behavior, ecology, and their environmental impact, drawn from the author's twenty-seven years of observations across North America. Mills elucidates the beaver's unique engineering skills and highlights their important role in conservation and ecosystem health. At the start of the book, the author recounts his extensive fieldwork studying beaver colonies over many years. He shares personal anecdotes, including detailed observations of beaver building their homes, foraging for food, and working cooperatively. The beginning sets a tone of reverence for these industrious creatures while offering insight into their physical characteristics, social organization, and remarkable capability for landscape alteration through dam-building. Mills emphasizes their significance not just in the wildlife community but also in the broader context of nature's dynamic systems, laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of beavers as both individual animals and as key players in their ecosystems. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aBeavers
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42282
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