TWENTY-SEVEN'J'II BIENNIAL REPORT. 



25 



NUMBER AND VALUE OF ANIMALS REPORTED CAUGHT BY THE LICENSED 

 TRAPPERS OF CALIFORNIA FROM OCTOBER 15, 1919, TO MARCH 1. 1920. 



Species 



1 



2 



4 



.'5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



IS 



19 



20 



21 



22 



Skunk 



Coyote 



Coon 



Gray fox 



Mink 



Martin 



Wildcat 



n.slier 



Ring-tailed cat 



*Bcaver 



SDottcd skunk 

 River otter — 



Muskrat 



Bear 



Red fox 



Wolverine 



Badger 



Kit fox 



Mountain lion 



'Possum 



Weasel 



Mole 



Total 



Number 



19.052 



5,398 



5.222 



1.704 



452 



3,783 



102 



1.28r> 



75 



3,586 



97 



359 



116 



2S 



7 



197 



129 



20 



90 



178 



27 



45,804 



Avorago 



l.rliv 



$3 81 



7 ft") 

 5 45 

 3 96 

 9 13 



26 08 



2 80 



G7 .33 



2 62 

 33 23 



57 



11 88 



3 14 



8 57 



12 00 

 30 00 



1 06 

 1 34 

 8 00 

 1 25 

 20 

 05 



HlKhcst 



88 00 

 20 00 

 15 00 



7 OO 

 20 00 

 45 00 

 12 .".0 

 80 (X) 



7 00 

 35 00 



1 00 

 20 00 



3 25 

 20 00 

 20 25 

 50 00 



2 50 

 2 50 



20 00 



1 75 



1 75 



05 



Tola) 

 valuu 



$72,588 21 

 29.8.J3 Zr, 

 29,410 lO 

 20.679 12 

 15.:.57 f,2 

 11.336 If, 



io,.yr2 40 



6.867 Ol 



3.361 32 



2,492 .'■.0 



2,044 02 



1.142 36 



1,127 26 



<m 12 



.336 no 



210 00 



208 82 



174 86 



160 00 



112 50 



Xi no 



1 35 



$209,292 24 



*Taken under permit. 



"Trapping Licenses — About 4500 issued. Of these, 1300 reported their catch. 

 Persons under IS are not required, under the present l.aw, to report. 



"Estimafcd Total Income — The catch of $209,292.24 reported by the l.SOO licensed 

 trappers is found to be about 40 per cent of the entire valu.e of the catch which 

 totals $500,000. 



''Average Income — About $110 pev licensed trapper. The 1300 trappers reporting, 

 including many professional trappers, averaged $160. 



"Note — The muskrat is not protected by law in California. For this reason the 

 25,000 rauskrats valued at $31,000, which investigation has shown to have been 

 caught in the Imperial Valley in 1919-20, were not reported. The figures for the 

 mountain lion and coyote are also low since 229 lions were killed, and their hides 

 pi'esented for bounty, in 1920. Animals trapped and poisoned by predatory animal 

 trappers working under the direction of the Biological Survey of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture are not included in the above report. 



JOSEPH DIXON. 

 October 10, 1922. Economic ^fanimalogist." 



UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE COOPERATION. 



For man}^ years the United States Forest Service has cooperated 

 splendidly in iish and g-anie conservation work. That tliis cooperation 

 might be improved and might have a common basis an agreement wa.s 

 drawn up and signed by otficials of the Forest Service and the Commis- 

 ion early in 1920. The agreement reads as follows : 



AGREEMENT, 



In order to secure closer cooperation with the Fish and Game Commission, the 

 following informal agreement has been executed : 



Whereas, the wild life on the national forests of California is a product of the 

 forest and a great resource, which adds materially to enjoyment of the national 



