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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



fur animals or to dig or smoke out 

 skuuks from dens. 



Fur-bearing animals may be killed at 

 any time when destroying property. 



Seals and sea lions are protected at 

 all times in Game District Nineteen. 



There are no legal restrictions to the 

 propagation of fur-bearing mammals in 

 the state. 



FORESTRY AND FISH AND GAME 

 EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR. 

 The odor of mountain forests and the 

 sound of running water greeted the vis- 

 itor to the joint exhibit of the Califor- 

 nia Fish and Game Commission and the 

 United States Forest Service at the 



There was also on exhibition a helio- 

 gi'aph, an instrument utilizing the sun's 

 rays to flash messages. 



Beneath this lookout tower an ingeni- 

 ous methotl of showing the five principal 

 causes of forest fires was to be found. 

 The rotation of a wheel-like structure 

 brought in view a series of small models 

 showing automobilists dropping ciga- 

 rettes and matches, homesteaders burning 

 brush, campers leaving a camp fire still 

 burning, lightning striking a tree and a 

 railway ti'ain, from which sparks might 

 start a fire. A touch of realism was 

 added to the lightning scene by the use 

 of an induction coil and a piece of tin, 

 with which a semblance of lightning and 



Fig. 27. Part of educational exliibil of Caliloiiiia l<"ibli and Game Commission at State Fair. 

 1917. The mountain lion is represented as killing a fawn, and details as to the destruc- 

 tiveness of this animal are given on the accompanying placard. To the right is shown 

 canned fi.shery products and data on California fisheries. Photograph by II. C. Bryant. 



State Fair, held in Sacramento, Septem- 

 ber S-16, 1917. Avoiding artificiality as 

 far as possible, the exhibit took the form 

 of a miniature forest, in which was to be 

 found a Forest Service lookout tower, 

 aquaria containing several varieties of 

 fine large trout, a model hunter's camp, 

 with bags of different varieties of game 

 hanging nearby, and a pond with thir- 

 teen different species of waterfowl upon 

 it. 



Pine, fir and cedar trees were brought 

 from the Tahoe National Forest, near 

 Grass Valley, and a space fifty feet 

 square was turned into a forest. On 

 entering between i-ows of pines and firs, 

 the visitor was invited to inspect the 

 lookout tower, where an attendant ex- 

 plained the manner in which forest 

 officers discover and locate forest fires. 



thunder was obtained, and to the forest 

 fire by the use of volumes of smoke. 



The fish exhibit consisted of a model 

 fish ladder and a fish screen in operation, 

 a small cement pond containing many of 

 the food fishes which have been intro- 

 duced into the Sacramento and San 

 .Toaquin rivers — crappie, bluegill sunfish, 

 black bass and carp, and two large glass 

 aquaria containing rainbow, Loch Leven 

 and eastern brook trout. Hatching 

 troughs contained trout and salmon fry. 



Inside the tent, which represented a 

 hunter's camp, was an educational 

 exhibit. Attracting most attention were 

 several mounted groups ; a mountain lion 

 killing a deer, a Cooper hawk killing a 

 quail, and a barn owl with a gopher. 

 These groups appeared to impress every 

 visitor and even had they not been 



