-MINOR FUR-BEARING ANIMALS. 
FIELD WORK. 
All the wardens in active service were detailed to field work in 
Alaska throughout the year. While it was expedient and desirable 
to utilize the services of some for brief periods in connection with 
patrol and other fisheries work and to detail one late in the year to 
the Pribilof Islands, the greater part of their time was devoted to 
work in connection with the minor fur-bearing animals. 
The wardens concerned in enforcing the law and regulations for 
the protection of the fur-bearing animals of Alaska are shown in the 
list of employees in the introduction. 
One warden, C. F. Townsend, was detailed throughout the year in 
the interior of Alaska, with headquarters at Fairbanks. To indicate 
to some degree the extent of territory under the supervision of war- . 
dens in the interior of Alaska the following trips are cited: Between 
January 29 and February 15 a trip was made with dog team from 
Fairbanks to Kaltag, following the valleys of the Tanana and Yukon 
Rivers, a distance of approximately 600 miles one way. Fairbanks 
was reached on the return trip March 12. In the latter part of the 
month a trip was made to the Wood River region. In the first part 
of April a trip was made from Fairbanks to Circle ‘and return. It 
had been planned to extend this trip to Fort Yukon, but information 
received at Circle to the effect that the trails were breaking up and 
were dangerous made a curtailment seem advisable. In the summer 
season a trip was made from Fairbanks to St. Michael, thence to 
Fort Yukon, and from there to Fairbanks. This trip was made on 
launches and steamers and stops were made en route at trading posts 
and Indian villages whenever possible. The total distance traveled 
on this trip was approximately 3,000 miles. 
Wardens Brown and Baker were stationed in the Bristol Bay 
region during the winter of 1915-16, with headquarters on the Nush- 
agak River. Four months, from January 11 to May 11, 1916, were 
spent in travel, in the course of which it is estimated that one warden 
covered 1,400 miles and the other 1,170. Reindeer and dogs were 
used for transportation. The itinerary included Koggiung, on the 
Kvichak River, Naknek, Ugaguk, Ugashik, a trip up Kvichak River 
and Hiamna Lake to the Indian village of Iliamna at the head of that 
lake, including visits at Kaskanak and Nogheling and Becharof Lake. 
Fur was inspected, natives were given instructions in regard to regu- 
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