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good order have been made and the grounds improved by planting of 

 additional flowers, trees and shrubs. 



This fine stone building located on the arid foothills above Independ- 

 ence with its ponds and green lawn, is a beautiful sight to the tourists 

 on their way across the desert wastes that they must cross before reach- 

 ing the wooded sections of northern Inyo and Mono counties where 

 thousands of recreationists spend their vacations camping, fishing and 

 hunting. 



With the ever increasing demand for trout and the many barren 

 lakes in the southern High Sierra to stock, and as the capacity of the 

 Mt. Whitney Hatchery has been reached, I deem it advisable to build 

 an auxiliary hatchery in that region to be under the same management 

 as the Mt. Whitney Hatchery. 



BIG PINE CREEK 



Big Pine Creek Basin affords several sites near the town of Big Pine 

 where, if the water is suitable, a hatchery could be built, as well as 



Fig. 15. The new Burney Creek Fish Hatchery 



ponds for the rearing of adult fish or breeders for the purpose of fur- 

 nishing eggs to the hatcheries in that section. I recommend that as 

 soon as funds are available that a survey be made and an experimental 

 hatchery set up to determine the suitability of the water for hatchery 

 purposes and if all conditions are good, that a permanent hatchery and 

 pond system be established in the lower altitudes of Big Pine Creek 

 Basin. 



COTTONWOOD LAKES GOLDEN TROUT EGG-COLLECTING STATION 



This station furnishes all of the golden trout eggs hatched at Mt. 

 Whitney Hatchery. The average number of eggs collected annually 

 from Middle Cottonwood Lakes has been 450,000. The lake has been 

 so heavily fished that it was deemed advisable to recommend that it be 

 closed to fishing for a number of years or permanently so as to furnish 

 a supply of golden trout eggs for the hatcheries. This was done by a 



