CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 389 



We feel that the threatened enforcement of regulation G-20-A is an unlawful 

 appropriation of the property of the people of a sovereign State which the officers 

 of that State, and particularly the fish and game commissioners thereof, are sworn 

 to defend. Any attempt on the part of a Federal bureau or agency to transgress 

 upon this duty and riglit is in direct violation of all the principh's of the organic 

 acts and constitutions of the States invidved, as well as of the Federal Constitution 

 itself. It also is in direct violation of the spirit of all statutes and acts promul- 

 gated by the Congress of the United States, the legislatures of the several States, 

 and of the judicial interpretations rendered thereupon. 



We believe the States involved should, if necessary, curl) tliis threat before 

 same is accepted, in any part, by the public, for while the initial steps toward the 

 enforcement of this section of the order may seem mild and only inconsequential in 

 result, still it may be the initial step in complete usurpation of State rights amount- 

 ing to confiscation of property without due process of law. We feel that the 

 principle is entirely unsound, unjust and uncalled for. 



Therefore, we respectfully recommend that all States involved unite in most 

 strenuously resisting any attempt of the Federal bureaus in affecting the menacing 

 threats contained in said order. 



We have been and still are appreciative of any cooperative work done by the 

 Federal bureaus in cooperation with the fish and game commissions of the several 

 States in furtherance of propagation and protection of wild life, and we shall 

 continue to welcome such cooperation so long as same does not ripen into usurpation 

 of State powers ; and to the end that the State rights be safeguarded and that any 

 attempted usun:)ation might be checked at its inception, it respectfully is recom- 

 mended that this association appoint an interim committee to consist of three members 

 and to be appointed from the States constituting this association. Such committee to 

 be appointed by the president and to devise ways and means to bring about an early 

 determination of the question herein involved. Such committee to be subject to the 

 call of the chainnan of the committee." 



Before adoption of the resolution, Mr. Racliford warned the asso- 

 ciation that the Forest Ser^dce might determine it advisable to exercise 

 complete control over the National Forests, which would mean that the 

 States would have no jurisdiction nor any rights thereon. 



The 1935 meeting of the association will be held at Santa Fe, New 

 Mexico. Present at the Portland meeting were D. H. Madsen, now 

 with the National Park Service; R. G. Parvin, game commissioner of 

 Colorado, and A. E. BurghdufP, assistant executive officer of the Cali- 

 fornia Fish and Game Commission, who assisted in organizing the asso- 

 ciation at Salt Lake in 1921. 



The Resolutions Committee was composed of Federal Judge Colin 

 Neblett of New Mexico, Dr. Irving Vining of Oregon and Newell Cook 

 of Utah.— A. E. Burghduff, July, 1934. 



PLANT SILVER SALMON IN EAGLE LAKE 



Warden C. 0. Fisher in cooperation with local sportsmen has 

 planted 266,000 silver salmon in Eagle Lake, Lassen County. This is 

 part of a state-wide experiment, utilizing to a greater extent this 

 easily propagated species as a sport fish. Individuals grow rapidly 

 and mature in three years. It is not expected that they will reach a 

 size comparable to ocean grown fish, but it has been found tliat second 

 year examples are much larger than rainbow trout of the same age. 

 It is intended to follow this introduction with others annually until 

 something definite is learned as to their success in the lake. 



According to Fisher's observations, food in the form of young 

 minnows (these of the genera Leucidius and Siphateles) locally known 



