THIRTIETH BIENNIAL REPORT 



REPORT OF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 



Honorable Board of Fish and Game Commissioners 

 of the State of California, 



Sail Francisco, California. 



Sirs: During the preceding bienniuin certain changes in personnel 

 and organization have occurred which are in order to note. 



On September 2, 1927, Governor C. C. Young appointed Mr. Reginald 

 G. Fernald of Santa Barbara and Mr. George B. Clarkson of Los 

 Angeles, and reappointed Mr. I. Zellerbach of San Francisco as Fish 

 and Game Commissioners. Shortly after these appointments were 

 made the Commissioners met and elected Mr. Zellerbach the president 

 of the board, which position he previously held. On December 1, 1927, 

 the undersigned became executive officer and attorney, succeeding Mr. 

 B. D. Marx Greene. 



Pursuant to the acts of the 1927 legislature, organizing the various 

 commissions and boards of the state government into departments, the 

 duties, powers, purposes, responsibility and jurisdiction of the State 

 Fish and Game Commission were transferred to the newly created 

 Department of Natural Resources comprising the Division of Fish and 

 Game, the Division of Mines and Mining, the Division of Parks and the 

 Division of Forestry — the Division of Fish and Game to be adminis- 

 tered through a Fish and Game Commission to be appointed by the 

 Governor to serve without compensation and to hold office at his pleas- 

 ure. You gentlemen, comprising such Commission, have continued to 

 function much to the extent and in the same manner as did former 

 boards of fish and game commissioners. The Commission has fre- 

 quently met to transact the business before it, hold hearings, make 

 orders, grant permits, receive the reports of the executive officer and 

 lay out the general policy and program for the division to follow under 

 the immediate supervision and direction of the executive officer. 



Early in 1928 the accounting work of all the divisions was taken over 

 and is now being administered by the Depai'tment of Natural Resources 

 at Sacramento. 



Monthly meetings of the chiefs of the divisions of the Department of 

 Natural Resources have been held at Sacramento, which were attended 

 by the executive officer, who rendered a current report of the business 

 and activities of the division to the Director of Natural Resources who. 

 in turn, transmitted the substance of such reports to the monthly meet- 

 ing of the Governor's Council. 



During the biennial period the plan of centralized and uniform 

 administration for the whole state has been carried out and proven 

 effective. 



Realizing the increasing problems of wild life conservation and res- 

 toration, but anticipating greater opportunities by reason of a larger 

 revenue from the increased license fees provided by the last legislature 

 and effective this year, efforts have been made and a plan of action 

 initiated considerably enlarging the scope and extending the field of 



