Icon viewers:
My influence in selecting Bluffton area/Little Riley headwaters as grounds for re-introduction of beavers having now been exposed, I feel comfortable in letting The Icon announce the choice for a northeastern Ohio location, the one quadrant of the state for which a site had not been announced.
I can disclose to The Icon, without fear of contradiction that the chosen northeastern site is in Old Saybrook Township in Ashtabula County, the state's most northeasterly county. The beaver reintroduction site for that quadrant of Ohio, will be along the headwaters of one the tributaries of the Little Ashtabula River, not far from the small cities of Conneaut and Ashtabula and within whistle sound distance of the mainline of the CSX railroad near Lake Erie.This railroad runs on the tracks and right of way of the old Nickel Plate railroad.
Furthermore, the beaver nesting sites will be within one-quarter mile of the retirement home of David S. Baumgartner, long a resident of 437 S. Main Street, who recently moved to Ashtabula County.
Mr. Baumgartner, a grandson of the late Dr. Josiah Steiner, a noted big game hunter during the first third of the last century, is expected to have overseer's examination and reporting duties for the northeastern Ohio beaver reintroduction project.
His father, the late Dr. Donivan Baumgartner, BHS '16, and a Beaver himself in the early 1920s, will provide such medical oversight as is necessary.
Sincerely,
Charles Hilty
Washington correspondent for The Icon
