REPORT OF TITF. FISIT AND GAME COMMISSION. 



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The California Nature Study League became so mueh interested in 

 this now work that they furnished a compact nature study library to be 

 placed in oadi of tlie summer resorts where the work was instituted. 

 Tliis library was supplementi d liy colored pictures of fish ;md game and 

 other illustrative material. 



The work at Tahoe attracted the attention of the Superintendent of 

 .National Parks, Mv. Stephen T. :\lathrf, and in 1920 he suggested that 

 file Connni-sion cooperate in similar woi-k foi- Yosemite National Park. 

 A' a conserpience, there was installed in the summer of 1920 in 



Fig. 19. A Yosemite audience listening to a conservation lecture. Summer vaca- 

 tionists are in an unusually receptive mood for iiifoirii.i tion on fi.'ili and same Plioto- 

 m-jipli ))>• Curry Camping Company. 



Yosemite National Park what was called a "Free Nature (tuide Serv- 

 ice." Illustrated leetures tlealing with wild life and wild life conserva- 

 tion were given in the evenings at the different resorts, and trips afield 

 were scheduled for morning and afternoon. Small nature study libraries 

 were made available at two different places in the Valley, and an office 

 imur gave visitors a chance to iiave (picstions relating to natural history 

 properly answered. Considering thai the effort was practically new and 

 untried, the results were remarkable. During the month of June alone, 

 the only part of the seavson covered in this report, 10,815 persons were 

 reached through the medium of lectures, eighteen being given ; and the 

 attendance on the thirty-five scheduled trips afield was 483. Further 



