:51:00
As soon as they've grown,
we'll let them go back into the wild,
:51:03
have some babies of their own.
:51:06
The fact is...
:51:09
I used to trap beaver.
:51:12
But a few weeks ago I quit.
Never thought I would.
:51:16
Now I know it's wrong.
They're almost extinct.
:51:19
Too many trappers,
not enough beaver.
:51:23
When the beaver have gone
from the north...
:51:27
Maybe you don't know, but these little
fellas make the north the way it is.
:51:32
They build their dams,
make their ponds...
:51:35
where the moose feed,
the muskrats, the waterfowl.
:51:38
Come the spring, they open up
their dams, let the meltwater run...
:51:40
and you've got an irrigation system
a thousand miles wide.
:51:44
Take away the beaver,
and you break the chain.
:51:48
So I'm speakin' up
for the beaver now.
:51:52
If we don't watch out,
:51:54
there'll just be
another extinct species.
:51:58
I guess I feel it
more than most because...
:52:03
well, people like me are pretty much
an extinct species too.
:52:06
I can guess you can
get along without me,
:52:09
but these little fellas... the world
would be a poorer place without them.
:52:15
What do you have to say?
:52:30
Never ask me to do that again.
:52:33
You were great, Archie.
You really got to them.
:52:39
How 'bout a curtain call?
:52:50
Thank you.
:52:57
It's wild country,
way north of the Saskatchewan River.