Mammals of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: John O. Whitaker Jr
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265965603
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Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Excerpt from Mammals of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Brennan (1923) presented a chapter on mammals, although much of the infonna tion is not well documented. He relates early reports of American beaver, porcupine, coyote, black bear, northern river otter, mountain lion, lynx, bobcat, elk, moose (alces alces), white-tailed deer, and American bison. The American beaver has not been seen in the area in years. A dog attacked and was injured by a porcupine in 1918 at Fumessville. Brennan cited many reports of timber wolves, and stated that some remained between Dune Park and Michigan City until 1919, but we suspect that many (if not all) of these were actually coyotes. The last black bear seen in the dunes region was in 1871, but it was probably forced there from Michigan when the entire east shore of Lake Michigan was on fire. The northern river otter has long been gone from the dunes area. The last lynx seen in the dunes was killed by Hunter Green in 1873 at Tremont. White-tailed deer were common in the dunes area through the 1860's, but the last one shot was in the early 1870's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.