THIRTY-SIXTH BIENNIAL REPORT 11 



REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER TO THE BOARD OF 

 FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS 



During the biennium, as your executive officer, I have endeavored 

 to faithfully carry out your wishes and to maintain the Division in an 

 efficient and businesslike manner in accordance with the personnel and 

 financial policies which have already been established. 



Since my appointment as executive officer, I have been sincerely 

 interested in establishing an educational program by means of which 

 the sportsmen of the State and others interested in the conservation 

 of California 's wild life may be kept advised of just what the Division 

 of Fish and Game is doing and what the reasons are for doing it. Too 

 often we have been criticized in the past for not doing things which 

 we actually are doing at the time, and I feel that we should be com- 

 pletely frank with the sportsmen who are footing the bill. To this end, 

 I have appointed an educational director who at the present time is 

 organizing his program. 



I feel that the reorganization of the engineering functions of the 

 Division that has been accomplished during the biennium is a real 

 step forward. Up to the present time, the various bureaiLS were all 

 carrA'ing on their own engineering w^ork which resulted in a duplication 

 of effort and higher than necessary cost of operation. All of the 

 engineering functions are now centralized in one bureau, the Bureau of 

 Engineering, which was formerly known as the Bureau of Hydraulics. 



I wish further to report the following changes in Commission per- 

 sonnel during the biennial period : 



Dr. E. C. Moore 

 Mr. I. Zellerbach 

 Mr. Newton G. Booth, Jr. 

 Mr. Raymond Grey 

 Mr. E. L. McKenzie 

 Mr. Kenneth I. Fulton 

 Mr. Frank W. Clark 

 Mr. Phil Gibson 

 Mr. Nate F. Milnor 

 Mr. Germain Bulcke 

 Mr. E. L. Carty 

 Mr. Lee F. Pavne 

 Mr. W. B. Williams 



Mr. Herbert C. Davis, former executive officer, was replaced 

 September 19, 1939, by Mr. Lester A. McMillan. 



LIBRARY 



The outstanding development in connection with the library dur- 

 ing this period was moving into the new quarters in the later months 

 of 1938. With the assistance of the Patrol Department, the shelves 

 were arranged and labeled. Space at first seemed adequate but it 



