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REPORT OF TFTE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



During the severe winter 1915-16 it soon became apparent that 

 large numbers of deer and quail would starve unless feed was provided 

 for them. Deputies were ordered to procure feed and to stimulate the 

 interest of others in the work. As a result, many hundreds of deer and 

 quail were supplied with food until the melting of the snows again 

 furnished them a natural supply (see Figs. 8, 9, 10 and 11). 



Fig. 8. Deputy O'Connor of Grass Valley, Nevada County, 

 leaving on horseback to feed quail during severe 

 weather, winter 1915-1916. 



The drying up of overflowed bottoms in the Sacramento Valley 

 annually causes a great loss in fish life. No more practicable method of 

 conserving the valuable fishery resources of the great valleys has been 

 found than is demonstrated in the efforts to seine out and plant in 

 other places the fish which would otherwise die with the drying up 

 of these overflowed areas (see Figs. 12 and 13). The Sacramento 

 District office has carefully watched the areas where this danger exists 

 and has been instrumental in saving thousands of black bass, perch, 

 catfish, crappie and sunfish. 



