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FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



86,381 daj^ sets — an average of 5661 miles of trapline and 7198 daj' 

 sets per man. During this next year, ending June 30, 1938, an aver- 

 age of 19 men per month was employed, 137,696 miles of trap line 

 were run and 179,406 day sets were made. The average miles of trap 

 line per man was 7247. Each man made an average of 9442 day sets. 

 Most of the trap lines set out by student trappers are run on foot 

 which accounts for a low daily average length of trap line of less 

 than twenty miles per day for student trappers. 



Coyote and bobcat catch by counties and other predators. 



In March, 1938, another step was taken which will go still further 

 in pro\'iding us with the type of predatory animal control organiza- 

 tion that Ave have been striving to build. A promotional examination 

 was given for the position of predatory animal hunter and trapper, 

 open only to assistant wardens who had been trained under our super- 

 vision since July. 1936. More than half of the men who had had trap 

 line experience applied for permission to take this examination and on 

 July 1, 1938, the ten highest on the list Avere promoted to the new 

 grade and sent out on permanent assignments. At the close of the 

 next biennium Ave Avill — Ave are sure — be able to report that the records 

 of these ten men have demonstrated to the satisfaction of everyone that 

 "a college education is no bar to becoming a good trapper." 



DEER STUDIES 



The study of the Rocky Mountain mule deer Avas continued and 

 in addition similar Avork Avas carried on in other parts of the State 

 on California mule deer and southern mule deer. The problems studied 



