REPORT OP THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 151 



By the foregoing operations the range of the golden trout has been 

 extended more than 150 miles along the summit waters of the Sierras 

 from Volcano Creek, the original habitat. 



On August 10, 1914, Commissioner Carl Westerfeld and A. D. Fergu- 

 son, in charge of the Fresno office, accompanied by Robert Duke, 

 attorney for the commission, joined the pack train at Lone Pine and 

 were with the crew throughout the remainder of the time the expedition 

 was in the field. Deputy Smalley was, because of severe illness, com- 

 pelled to return home from Bishop, leaving the pack-train crew while 

 on its first trip. From Whitney Meadows as a base of supply, seven 

 plants of golden trout were made in new waters tributary to the upper 

 Big Kern and in small lakes in the vicinity of Mount Genoa and Crag 

 Erricson. An additional plant also was made to the former plant in 

 Lake South American. Commissioner Westerfeld assisted throughout 

 this and subsequent operations not only in taking up the golden trout 

 but in distributing them. 



Deputies Bullard and Brownlow having now returned with their 

 string of pack stock to Whitney Meadows, a full pack-train load 

 of golden trout were taken up and the expedition proceeded via Kern 

 River Canyon, Farewell Gap, Mineral King, Timber Gap, Elizabeth 

 Pass, Roaring River, Kings River Canyon and on to the northern slope 

 of the divide between Middle and South Forks of Kings River. En 

 route plants were made in Cliff Creek, tributary to the Kaweah River 

 and Lone Pine Meadow and Tamarack Lake (renamed Lake Wester- 

 feld) on the headwaters of the middle fork of the Kaweah. The party 

 divided at Roaring River. Deputy Bullard, assisted by Walter 

 Williams, with four mule loads of golden trout, completed the season's 

 operations by planting Horse Corral Creek, Lewis Creek and Wildman 

 Creek, tributaries of the south fork of Kings River, and Kennedy Creek 

 with its tributary lakes, and a lake at the head of Lost Canyon, tribu- 

 tary to middle fork of Kings River, situated on the north side of the 

 Monarch Divide which separates the middle and south forks of the 

 river. The expedition was disbanded at Big Meadows in northern 

 Tulare County. 



About 5000 adult golden trout were transplanted, all taken with (fly) 

 hook and line. All of the plants were made in ideal barren waters 

 which are located conveniently for further distribution work in still 

 other barren waters as soon as the fish shall have become established. 

 Because of these and previous similar operations in transplanting 

 golden trout, the fear once common that this peerless species might 

 become extinct, is forever allayed. 



Late in September a carload of rainbow, eastern brook and Loch 

 Leven trout fry were planted at Huntington Lake. 



