LIB. 



CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



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EDUCATIONAL WORK IN SUMMER 

 RESORTS. 



The attempt to stimulate interest in 

 wild life by carrying the Fish and Game 

 Commission's educational campaign into 

 the summer resorts proved very success- 

 , ful. During the month of July Doctor 

 [Bryant visited five of the largest resorts 



y'on Lake Taboe : Brockway, Tahoe Tav- 

 lern, Emerald Bay Camp, Al Tahoe Inn 

 {and Fallen Leaf Lodge. Lectures illus- 

 [trated with stereopticon and motion 

 'pictures were given in the evening and 



^'parties taken afield in the day time. Of 



It will be of interest to our readers to 

 know that the Department of the Interior 

 has decided to employ in each national 

 park a resident naturalist whose duty it 

 will be to answer questions and to in- 

 terest people in the out-of-doors. Thus 

 will the government augment the work 

 already started by the commission. 



The summer resort work at Tahoe 

 proved so popular that an expansion of 

 the work another summer will be de- 

 manded. There is no surer way of 

 stimulating interest in wild life conserva- 

 tion than to develon interest in the out- 



Fig. 58. ''Learning to read a roadside" at Emerald Bay under the instraction of a nature gi:ids 

 furnished by the Fish and Game Commission. An experiment in making eonssrva- 

 tionists out of the summer vacationists. 



particular interest were the groups o' 

 children who roamed the woods an 

 stream sides searching for wild things 

 It would be difficult to estimate the valu< 

 of these excursions when the public ai 

 leisure came in contact with nature and 

 learned the fundamentals of conservation 

 first hand. 



The final report shows that thousands 

 of people were reached through the 

 medium of lectures and that hundreds 

 received instruction from a nature guide. 

 The nature study reference books fur- 

 nished by the California Nature Study 

 League were in great demand and greatly 

 helped in awakening interest in wild 

 things. 



of-doors when people are most susceptible 

 to information about it. 



TAHOE PUBLIC CAMP. 



The legislature at its last session set 

 aside the old hatchery grounds at Tahoe 

 City, which are to be abandoned for a 

 better site, as a public camp for vaca- 

 tionists. Under the direction of the Fish 

 and Game Commission the State Engi- 

 neering Department installed a water 

 supply, sewer system and other sanitary 

 conveniences. The camp was opened to 

 the public on July 4 with Mr. Arnold D. 

 Patterson as superintendent. On the first 

 day over a hundred campers were cared 



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