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This amounts to a charge of $1.50 per acre yearly. 

 Maintenance costs (structural repairs, weed control, etc.) should 

 not exceed $1.50 per acre. 



Summarization of Annual Costs 



Cost Cost for 



Item per acre 15-acre Unit 



Development (20-year amortization) $.75 $11.25 



Planting (one-half of entire area) 2.63 39.45 



Personnel cost 1.50 22.50 



Water 3.75 56.25 



Payment in lieu of taxes .50 7.50 



Maintenance , 1.50 22.50 



Total yearly cost $10.63 $159.45 



Less income (pasturage) 2.00 30.00 



Net annual cost $8.63 $129.45 



Under the present season there is an average of 35 shooting days 

 per year (three per week plus opening, closing, and holidays). The 

 cost per man per day thus becomes $3.70 ($129.45 -^ 35 permits). It 

 is reasonable to assume that a small percentage of hunters will not take 

 up their reservations. If this is assumed to be one in seven, the charge 

 becomes $4.32 for each permit ($129.45 -^ 30). 



It has been suggested that the guide plan used by the U. S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service on their large public shooting ground in the 

 Dakotas be followed. Here, we understand, a guide is required for 

 each double blind, the occupants furnishing his wages of $7 per 

 day as part of their permit fees. It is believed that conditions in 

 Dakota are quite different from those that would prevail on California 

 shooting grounds. Travel to and from blinds is probably by boat, 

 making it practical for a guide to serve only one blind. If the guide 

 system is adopted in this State, it may be practical for a guide to 

 serve as many as four blinds, thus reducing the guide cost per shooter 

 to $1 per day, wage being assumed to be $8 per day. 



Pheasant Shooting 



Under the management plans outlined above, a heavy pheasant 

 population may be expected to develop on the shooting grounds 

 intended primarily "for waterfowl. The pheasant hunting season 

 comes within the waterfowl season, but if pheasant hunters were 

 allowed to operate at the time waterfowl blinds are occupied, water- 

 fowl shooting would be spoiled. It is suggested, therefore, that all 

 pheasant hunting on these lands be limited to regular waterfowl 

 shooting days, that the one permit fee pay for both types of hunting, 

 and that pheasant hunting be limited to the period between 10 a.m. 

 and 3 p.m.; before and after these hours all hunting to be restricted 

 to occupants of blinds. 



DEER, ELK AND ANTELOPE 



Regulations promulgated by the Fish and Game Commission at the 

 request of the War Dei)artment restricted the deer season in 1942 to 21 

 days in the counties on the coast from Santa Cruz to Mendocino, inclusive, 

 and prohibited the hunting of deer in Southern California, including 

 San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. In the Sierra 



