The Spell of the Rockies

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Enos A. Mills. The Spell of the Rockies

The Spell of the Rockies

Table of Contents

Preface

Illustrations

Racing an Avalanche

Little Conservationists

Harvest Time with Beavers

Mountain-Top Weather

Rob of the Rockies

Sierra Blanca

The Wealth of the Woods

The Forest Fire

Insects in the Forest

Dr. Woodpecker, Tree-Surgeon

Little Boy Grizzly

Alone with a Landslide

The Maker of Scenery and Soil

A Rainy Day at the Stream's Source

The Fate of a Tree Seed

In a Mountain Blizzard

A Midget in Fur

The Estes Park Region

Index

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Enos A. Mills

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Twenty-four years ago, while studying glaciation on the slope of Long's Peak, I came upon a cluster of eight beaver houses. These crude, conical mud huts were in a forest pond far up on the mountainside. In this colony of our first engineers were so many things of interest that the fascinating study of the dead Ice King's ruins and records was indefinitely given up in order to observe Citizen Beaver's works and ways.

The industrious beaver builds a permanent home, keeps it clean and in repair, and beside it stores food supplies for winter. He takes thought for the morrow. These and other commendable characteristics give him a place of honor among the horde of homeless, hand-to-mouth folk of the wild. His picturesque works add a charm to nature and are helpful to mankind. His dams and ponds have saved vast areas of soil, have checked many a flood, and helped to equalize stream-flow.

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