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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



COTTONWOOD CAMP. 



DEEP IN THE DENSE SHADE OF THE BIG TREES ALONG FOUR MILE CREEK ON THE EAST SLOPE OF THE 

 CASCADES, CRATER NATIONAL FOREST, OREGON. 



diture of time and energy is produc- 

 tive of large results as, for example, 

 in the case of Dad's Lake on the 

 Washakie Forest where a nosebag 

 full of trout fry carried from Big 

 Sandy in 1903 has resulted in a lake 

 now teeming with choice fish. At 

 first the interest in the subject was 

 individual, later it extended first to 

 forest and then to district organiza- 

 tions until at present the recommen- 

 dations for planning operations threat- 

 en to exhaust the total capacity of all 

 federal hatcheries and must neces- 

 sarily be subject to selective processes 

 by the Bureau of Fisheries. 



It is not the intention of the Bureau 

 of Fisheries to furnish in any case a 

 number of fish greater than that re- 

 quired to form the nucleus of a brood 

 stock which, if properly protected and 

 afforded opportunity to reproduce, will 



in course of time stock the stream in a 

 natural way. The Forest Service, un- 

 fortunately, lacks the authority to pro- 

 tect the fish during the period of estab- 

 lishment and as a natural sequence 

 many of the planting operations are 

 only temporarily effective, yet, while 

 the results are not so good as they 

 would be if it were possible to protect 

 parts of streams to provide spawning 

 grounds and allow the fish to attain a 

 fair size they still are sufficiently suc- 

 cessful and encouraging to justify the 

 work. 



The first step in restocking is the de- 

 termination of the length, width and- 

 depth of the body of water to be 

 stocked, its sources and outlet, its tem- 

 peratures, the character of the bottom, 

 the kinds of vegetable life it contains, 

 the rapidity of flow, character of lands 

 traversed, and the kinds of fish already 



