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engaged as examiners. A training class for scouts wishing to pass 

 bird study and conservation tests was given instruction two different 

 terms. Campfire girls and girl scouts were given like help. 



During the fall of 1924, preceding the referendum on the Klamath 

 River Fish Reservation, an extensive campaign of education and pub- 

 licity was instituted. Numerous publicity items were furnished the 

 newspapers and many lectures were given. Undoubtedly this campaign 

 played a definite part in our having the victory which helped to save 

 the fish resources of the Klamath River. 



Summer Resort Educational Work. 



Continuing the cooperative arrangement with the National Park 

 Service, nature guide work has been continued in Yosemite National 



Fig. 15. Yosemite School of Field Natural History pursuing field studies 

 in Yosemite National Park. This school, run in cooperation with the National 

 Park Service, is one of the contributions to nature education being made by the 

 Bureau of Education and Research of the Fish and Game Commission. 

 Photograph by Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzgerald. 



Park each summer. The work has grown continuously and a staff 

 of seven or eight men is now necessary in order to serve the thousands 

 of people who make use of the nature guide service. It is undoubtedly 

 the largest effort in popular nature education yet undertaken. It has 

 been gratifying to note its spread to otlier parks. Through the medium 

 of lectures and campfire talks, field trips, exhibits and office hours, 

 the service attempts to awake vacationists to natural history oppor- 

 tunities and to their responsibility as regards wild life conservation. 

 From the standpoint of accomplishment there are three things that 

 stand out as a result of the last two summers ' activities of the Yosemite 

 Nature Guide Service : a training school for nature guides and teachers; 



