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Indiana DNR otter reintroduction record; Chapman (1880), pp. 340, 343
Of the wetland animals, the otter's return is a dated programme and the beaver's is not yet a dated fact here. The otter was officially classified extinct in Indiana in 1942; the DNR's reintroduction began in 1995, releasing 303 otters brought from Louisiana at twelve sites over five years; the species came off the state endangered list in 2005, stood in about eighty percent of counties by 2012, and has carried a limited trapping season since 2015. For the beaver, Chapman supplies the end — "with or before" the buffalo it went — but no Indiana return date was pinned in the carriers read, and none is printed: the beaver's return to the county's ditches is asserted by no source quoted here and remains a residue for the IDNR furbearer record. The mechanism of the original loss stands in Chapman's own sentences: of the waders, "cultivation has drained their favorite haunts" — the whooping crane, "always rare," was by 1880 "now never seen." Drainage, not hunting alone, is the county record's own explanation for the marsh fauna's going.