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Game Protection and 



Game laws and game protection cannot be made effective until we 

 get the real interest of the farmers, homesteaders and other land owners 

 throughout the state. The rigid enforcement of game and fish laws is 

 not sufficient without propagation. Protection and propagation of game 

 birds and animals are not sufficient unless a campaign is carried on against 

 the predatory animals that are continually destroying game. The prop- 

 agation of fish is not sufficient if we allow our streams to be polluted 

 with the filth of factories, mills and cities, which is a quick method of 

 diseasing and destroying young fish. Liberating large numbers of trout 

 and salmon fry in our streams is of no avail if these are carried out in 

 unscreened ditches to die in the fields. Such abuses must be corrected. 



The Deschutes River, One of Oregon's Best Trout Streams 



(Photo Weister) 



