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the state. The commissioners and the executive officer have addressed 

 numerous meetings of sportsmen from Siskiyou to San Diego, and 

 everywhere we are assured, by word and deed, of hearty cooperation. 

 New organizations of sportsmen are springing up like mushrooms 

 throughout the state. We are informed that the Associated Sports- 

 men's Clubs alone represent an organization of 30,000 members. There 

 are numerous branches of other organizations, and in each instance there 

 is now such a spirit of amity between them and the Commission that 

 ;iny criticism received is constructive in its nature. 



We might note the cordial relations existing between this Commission 

 and the Fish and Game Study Committee of the California Develop- 

 ment Association. This committee was formed as the direct result of the 

 annual meeting of the Associated Sportsmen held in December, 1925, 

 and consists of representative men from all parts of the state who have 

 been devoting their time and energy toward a study of laws and methods 

 necessary to better our fish and game conditions. This committee 

 holds periodic meetings and they have been most generous in requesting 

 the cooperation of the Commission to help them in their deliberations. 

 Their recommendations as made are being referred to this Commission 

 for criticism or suggestions, and we appreciate such cooperation and 

 feel sure that they are doing a work which will redound to the credit of 

 us all. 



Again, as in years past, we wish to record our grateful appreciation 

 of the many courtesies extended to us by the railroads of the state in 

 the free transportation of our employees, fish, and game birds. This 

 splendid cooperation on their part has helped in a large way toward 

 the restocking of our lakes, streams and hunting grounds. The savings 

 thus effected have enabled us to increase our plants, l)oth of fish and 

 game, and in this way the transportation companies are doing their 

 share to make more attractive the outdoor life of this state. 



DOLLAR-A-YEAR WARDENS. 



For tlie purpose of aiding the regular patrol of the Commission we 

 are now appointing so-called dollar-a-year Avardens. To secure such 

 appointment a man must be recommended by a regularly constituted 

 sportsmen's organization. Thereupon his qualifications are gone into 

 by a special agent working out of the executive office. If he is passed 

 upon by that special agent he then, with his fellow members in that 

 district, receives instructions from this special agent upon his duties. 

 The duty of this special agent is to see that the dollar-a-year men 

 cooperate fully with the patrol of the district. The dollar-a-year men 

 select their own captain, and through this captain, the captain of the 

 regular patrol draws on the sportsmen's deputies when needed. The 

 dollar-a-year deputy can not function outside his local patrol district, 

 except to arrest for an oft'ense committed in his presence, unless lie 

 receives clearance from his local captain of patrol to the captain 

 of the district of the state which he purposes to visit. Approxi- 

 mately 200 of these dollar-a-year wardens have been appointed and 

 where they have received instructions from the Commission and are 

 operating with the regular deputies, they are performing exceedingly 

 valuable service. It is apparent that the system can be a success if it is 



