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FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



of their principal sports. With the results obtained from our present 

 farm and the farm which it is contemplated will be constructed during 

 the coming year in southern California, it is possible to conceive that 

 the state may have an open season on pheasants within a short time. 



A number of valley quail are reared each year, and experiments are 

 being made with wild turkeys from Arizona, as well as Hungarian 

 partridges, and certain species from South America. 



A constructive step in game bird propagation is propagation of quail 

 in their wild state in protected areas, later trapping these birds and 

 distributing them for the purpose of introducing new brood stock, as 

 well as replenishing areas that have been shot out. This is already 

 being undertaken in certain parts of the state, and under the super- 

 vision of this division greater progress is expected. 



Fig. 6. Preparing to burn confiscated illegal nets. 



H. C. Bryant. 



May, 1928. Photograph by 



GAME REFUGES 



With the passage of an act by the last legislature increasing the hunt- 

 ing license fee from $1 to $2, it was provided that the Fish and Game 

 Commissioners should expend for a period of five years, beginning with 

 January 1, 1928, not less than one-third of all moneys collected annually 

 from the sale of such hunting licenses, in the purchase, lease or rental, 

 and the development, improvement, maintenance and administration 

 of land and water rights suitable for game refuges or public shooting 

 grounds, or both. 



It was further provided that a committee should be appointed, to be 

 known as the Game Refuge and Public Shooting Grounds Advisory 

 Committee, to consist of the Director of the California Academy of 

 Sciences, the Director of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research 

 of the University of California, and five other members to be selected 

 by the Fish and Game Commissioners, with the approval of the Gover- 



