FORTIETH BIENNIAL REPORT 



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REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF GAME 

 CONSERVATION 



The biennium of 1946-48 has seen several major changes in the 

 Bureau of Game Conservation which we feel have resulted in providing 

 better service to the sportsmen who harvest the game, and to the land- 

 owners who raise it. 



A reevaluation of state game refuges has been made with the result 

 that some which have outlived their purpose have been opened to hunting 

 while there have been boundary changes in others. Some local opposition 

 was met in 1947 but cooperative formulation of plans for the 1948 hunting 

 season gives indications of harmony and a common purpose. 



Among the more noteworthy of the changes in the bureau has been 

 the absorption of the former Bureau of Game Farms. 



UPLAND GAME BIRD PRODUCTION 



On July 1, 1946, the Bureau of Game Farms, for many years under 

 the direction of August Bade (retired from state service in 1946), was 

 dissolved and the work put under the direction of the Bureau of Game 

 Conservation. Mr. Carlisle Van Ornum, Supervisor of Game Farms, has 

 bent every effort to make the former Bureau of Game Farms fit into the 



Figure 24. Aerial view of the Yountville Game Farm, heart of the division's game 



farm system, supplies eggs and young birds to other Bureau of Game Conservation 



installations and more than a score of sportsmen's club holding pens 



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