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citizens, who are commissioned and supplied with a badge 

 of authority but are not paid any regular compensation 

 other than expense money on special cases. The compensa- 

 tion of the Regular Deputies varies with conditions, length 

 of service and efficiency, but amounts to an average of 

 about $70.00 per month besides necessary expenses. 



The protection of the native so-called "big game" is 

 under the immediate care of the corps of Deputy Game 

 Wardens. No effort is being made by the Board to breed 

 game mammals in captivity- One experiment, in conjunc- 

 tion with the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Federal 

 Government, is being conducted with a view of determining 

 the practicability of successfully transplanting wild wapiti 

 or elk from one part of the nation to another. During the 

 past winter, a herd of fifteen elk was accepted from the 

 Federal authorities at St. Anthony, Idaho, which had been 

 taken from the region in Wyoming known as Jackson's 

 Hole, and was transported with considerable difficulty to 

 the northeastern part of the state, where they were liberated, 

 or rather placed in an enclosed area within a National For- 

 est Reserve, the use of which was donated for this purpose 

 by the National Forestry Service. It is too early to give 

 results on this experiment, but a fair percentage of the 

 animals survived the very trying ordeal of the long journey 

 by rail, wagon and sled, and are now confined within the 

 2,500 acre pasture which is set aside for their grazing. 

 Within the next year it will be known whether they will 

 thrive and increase sufficiently to justify this and further 

 efforts of the same nature. 



The stock of "big game" animals of this state has been 

 rapidly diminishing as the population has increased and 

 civilization has spread over areas formerly held by primitive 

 conditions. With a few exceptions, deer are more plentiful 

 today in sections of certain eastern states than they are in 

 the mountainous districts of Oregon. The Board believes 

 that this condition is due to a number of causes, the chief 

 of which is lax enforcement of poorly framed protective 



