AMERICA'S GREATEST PLAYGROUND 17 



Lo Lo Road and Bitter Root River 



The club has received much valuable and timely aid from the State 

 Fish and Game Commission and also the United States Bureau of Fish- 

 eries, and always works in co-operation and perfect harmony with 

 these splendid institutions. 



At the present time the prime need is to locate and establish suit- 

 able spawning stations, where eggs may be obtained and hatched out 

 without the necessity of paying the prevailing enormous prices for 

 them. At Cooper's Lake the state and the club work together, with the 

 result that more than a million fry were raised in one season. 



The Butte Anglers' Club was the pioneer in the matter of restock- 

 ing the depleted game ranges of Montana with elk. Many carloads of 

 this grand game animal have been shipped to different parts of the 

 state, particularly the western portion, and turned loose upon the 

 ranges, where they have multiplied and would have become quite nu- 

 merous were it not that inadequate laws have been provided for their 

 protection. A better spirit must also be cultivated among the sports- 

 men of the state, so that these animals will not be butchered by meat 

 hunters. 



The general objects of the club are the protection and propagation 

 of fish and game, the importation of game birds, distribution of game 

 animals, planting of food for migratory birds, nursery streams for the 

 raising of fry to fingerlings, and other legitimate fields for game pro- 

 tection and propagation. 



The advent and universality of the automobile has raised havoc 

 with the game fish. Regions which were formerly practically inacces- 

 sible or reached only after many days of tiresome travel, are now 

 reached in a few hours, and the result is that the streams must all be 

 now stocked with a fourfold quantity if we are to have even ordinary 

 fishing in the future. The same thing applies to game of all kinds. 

 Propagation, protection, conservation, must be our watchwords. 



