Our important fisheries are: First, the international waters 

 Lake Superior, Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, Namekan, 

 Sand Point, La Croix, Basswood, Knife and other large lakes. 

 These lakes furnish great quantities of the finest food fishes 

 white fish, salmon trout, sturgeon and many other kinds. We 

 have no hatcheries to replenish the supply in these lakes, 

 though we understand Canada stands ready to co-operate. 



Red Lake, Leech Lake, Mille Lacks and other large interior 

 bodies of water might easily be made centers of important 

 commercial fisheries if little hatcheries were established on 

 some of the suitable streams entering them. 



Perhaps as important as the commercial fisheries is the 

 problem of increasing the supply of game fishes and the stock 

 of food fishes for local use in the smaller lakes and streams. 

 How many creeks and rivers are there in the State suitable 

 for brook trout? Many are already stocked either naturally 

 or by the Game and Fish Commission. Many others are not 

 Would it not be a good thing to have a study made by some 

 men competent to determine what species of fish exist in our 

 different waters; which lakes and streams are suitable for 

 stocking with better species; and then formulate a plan for 

 the construction of little hatcheries and the systematic stock- 

 ing of such waters as promise the best results? 



On the Deerlodge national forest in Montana one lookout sta- 

 tion has the record of reporting accurately, by distance and direc- 

 tion, a fire that was sixty miles away. 



Nearly three million young trees are being set out this spring 

 on the national forests of northern Idaho and Montana. On the 

 St. Joe ^national forest in Idaho three thousand acres will be 

 planted. 



Ranchers within and adjacent to the Sierra national forest, 

 California, have formed a co-operative association for the pre- 

 vention of forest fires. They need to use fire in clearing land for 

 farming, and will do it on a community basis, with all member* 

 present to prevent the fires' spread. 



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