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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



ent legislature, California will lead all 

 the states of the Union in the number 

 and acreage of its game refuges. It is 

 becoming more and more apparent that 

 one of the best means of conserving game 

 is to establish game sanctuaries, where 

 predatory animals are destroyed and other 

 wild life is allowed to breed unmolested. 

 Game increases rapidly in such sanctua- 

 ries and the increase spreads out to 

 neighboring territory, where it furnishes 

 food and sport to all who seek it. 



With the cooperation of the United 

 States Forest Service, seventeen areas in 

 the Sierras and Coast Range have been 

 selected and recommended as refuges. 

 With the new refuges and those which 

 have already been set aside, in addition 

 to the several national parks, California 

 will have a series of sanctuaries extend- 

 ing from the northern boundary to the 

 Mexican line and covering in all 2,639,250 

 acres. 



The locations of the refuges have been 

 chosen with reference to the various 

 kinds of game to be found, where both 

 summer and winter range is provided and 

 where administration will be easy. Doubt- 

 less some hunters will be inconvenienced 

 by the establishment of these refuges 

 in localities where they have been accus- 

 tomed to hunt, but most of them realize 

 the necessity for such conservation meas- 

 ures and will gladly seek other hunting 

 grounds. The following list gives the 

 location and area of each of the proposed 

 refuges : 



PROHIBITION OF THE SALE OF 

 TROUT NECESSARY, 



Most of the states have become con- 

 vinced that commercialization means ex- 

 termination, and therefore have passed 

 laws prohibiting the sale of all game. 

 California many years ago was driven to 

 prohibit the sale of deer, quail and shore 

 birds. Now necessity demands that the 

 sale of trout be stopped. 



The incentive to gain the dollar has 

 forced the market fishermen at Lake 

 Tahoe to deplete the supply of fish in 

 that lake. Nor is that the only lake 

 threatened, for the facility with which 

 markets can be reached by means of auto- 

 mobiles makes the stripping of other 

 mountain lakes more than a possibility. 

 The angling afforded in mountain lakes 

 should act as a lure to take people afield, 

 where healthful recreation is possible. 

 This can only be accomplished when un- 

 diminished sport can be obtained. 



The market fishermen of Lake Tahoe 

 are making a strong fight to defeat the 

 nonsale of trout bill, which is before the 

 legislature. The bill is a sane conserva- 

 tion measure and will deprive no one of 

 his livelihood. These fishermen can earn 

 a better day's wage by taking out anglers 

 than by the sale of ten pounds of trout, 

 a day's limit. 



The sale of trout allows the million- 

 aire to obtain these fish for his table, 

 but the poor man can not afford such a 

 luxury. Stop the sale and the trout of 

 Tahoe and other mountain lakes will be 



County 



Location 



Acres 



San Diego 



Riverside 



Ventura 



Santa Barbara . 

 Tulare and Kern- 

 Fresno 



Araador 



El Dorado 



Plumas 



Tehama 



Lassen 



Modoc 



Modoo 



Shasta .- 



Siskiyou 



Mendocino and Lake- 

 Monterey 



In vicinity of Laguna Mountain 



In vicinity of Sheep Mountain 



Near headwaters Sespe River 



Near Upper Sisquoc River 



Where Kern River crosses county line 



Near forks of Kings River 



In vicinity of Panther Creek 



Near headwaters American River 



Near headwaters Feather River 



In vicinity of Mill Creek 



On northwest side Eagle Lake 



In vicinity of Pine Creek 



In vicinity of Mowitz Butte 



Near north side of county oast of McCloud River. 



On north side Klamath River 



Near Hull Mountain 



At head of Arroyo Seco 



Total number of acres- 



51,840 

 69,120 

 125,410 

 39,680 

 37,600 

 33,400 

 57,600 

 64,000 

 31,000 

 34,400 

 47,580 

 47,560 

 57,000 

 69,000 

 8,960 

 37,000 

 69,000 



880,180 



