CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



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CALIFORNIA LAWS WILL BE MODI- 

 FIED TO AGREE WITH FEDERAL 

 GAME LAWS. 



California was one of the first states 

 to make the game laws conform with those 

 enacted by tiie federal government and 

 (he slate has i)erslstentl.y upheld the Fed- 

 eral Migratory Bird Law. It is to be 

 expected, tlierefore, that at the next legis- 

 lature the few laws which do not conform 

 with the new Migratory Bird Treaty Act 

 will be modified. The state law still 

 allows hunting one hour before sunrise 

 and one hour after sunset. To agree 

 with the federal law this section of the 



lied or the moat tested to prove that it 

 is veuison so that this plea as a rule is 

 of little avail. 



The same sort of defense has been 

 offered by a violator recently arrested in 

 Tulare Coiuity for having in possession 

 the skin of a mountain sheep. This de- 

 fendant at first maintained that the sheei) 

 was not a true wild sheep and later 

 claimed that he killed the animal in self- 

 defense. It will be an easy matter to 

 prove at the trial that the skin held in 

 possession was that of a wild mountain 

 sheep and the violator will undoubtedly 

 be heavilv fined. 



16. Tians])ortlng fish to Salmon Creek in Monterey County. Although packed for ten 

 miles on horses, the fish arrived in excellent condition. 



code will have to be modified so as to 

 prohibit all hunting except between sun- 

 rise and sunset of each calendar day. 

 The limit law on geese will have to be 

 changed and the dove season made to be- 

 gin on September 1. In the few cases 

 where the California laws are more 

 stringent than those of the federal govern- 

 ment no change will be made. 



VIOLATORS MAKE QUEER DEFENSE. 

 After some chronic violator of the game 

 laws has been apprehended and a quantity 

 of dried venison confiscated the usual plea 

 is that the confiscated meat is bear meat 

 or goat meat. The bones can be identi- 



MONTEREY STREAMS STOCKED. 



Through the efforts of Senator E. S. 

 Rigdon, Salmon Creek in southern Mon- 

 terey County has been • successfully 

 stocked with trout. Although this stream 

 is by nature a splendid trout stream, a 

 large waterfall one mile from the mouth 

 of the creek has made the upper reaches 

 of the stream barren of fish life. It was 

 with difficulty that 18,000 rainbow and 

 steelhead trout recently planted in the 

 stream were transported from the rail- 

 road. A fifty-mile haul with auto trucks 

 from San Luis Obispo to Sanco Pojo 

 Creek and then a ten-mile transport by 

 horseback was necessary. The trip was 



