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PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



cost. The licenses of his sport-loving friends at an all-too-moderate 

 dollar annual privilege-tax, have paid for everything the common- 

 wealth has done in l)ehalf of rod and gun attractions until today 

 licensed hunters and anglers stand more than ever ready to double the 

 dollar and do the job to the limits of what more money could 

 accomplish. 



Fig. 21. Klamath Kiver Steelheacl tiout. Photograph by George 



Neale. 



Conservation of fish and game, being carried on entirely by popular 

 support of a minority, is dependent upon a favorable public sentiment 

 for its financing to an even greater degree than any other self- 

 supporting activity undertaken under state direction. The history of 

 wild-life work in America is a chronicle of activities primarily 

 initiated by sportsmen in l)ehalf of sportsmen and paid for by sports- 

 men ; since under no other system of general appropriation from tax 

 funds has anything of lasting consequence ever been accomplished. 



