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on June 8 and for Bill on June 11 in 1934.
“The female has not been seen for certain since she was turned loose, but Bill spent Friday, June 15, with a work crew at the foot of Lewis Mountain and was not seen until the next Friday, June 22, when he spent the day with the crew on Big Flat Mountain. Tracks and various depredations have been reported, but most are doubtful," an assistant naturalist wrote in a report filed in park archives.
A second report filed the following year noted that “one of the animals wras killed in an organized hunt shortly after liberation, while the other has never been accounted for.”
But it was not necessary for Betsy and Bill to thrive and beget for bears to return to Shenandoah.
“If a wild population had not survived in the park area, one had certainly survived in mountains to the westward, including the Massanutten, within easy range of travel on their own four feet. All they needed was attractive habitat with protection,” wrote Mr. Lambert in his administrative history.
An attempt to restock the park with beavers met with the same lack of success. According to Superintendent Lassiter, a pair from New’ York State was released in 1938 at Bear Wallow Flats. They busied themselves cutting bark from young elm trees and alder bushes and appeared to be adjusting well to their new home.
Then, less than two w’eeks later, an 18-year-old from Warren County was caught w'ith a beaver pelt and charged with hunting in the park and killing one of the new arrivals.
Superintendent Lassiter reported a month later that the female seemed to be adjusting despite the death of her mate and had built a dam approximately 20 feet long and two feet deep.
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