Reconmieridations and Rema?'L 



Helena, Montana. 

 To the Honorable Fish and Game Commission: 



The Fish and Game Department, as at present constituted, was 

 placed under the administration of the writer by your body on April 

 17, 1921. Acting under your instructions, I have proceeded with the 

 work and desire to submit the following report as a summary of our 

 activities for the fiscal year ending May 1, 1922. A detailed financial 

 summary will be found on the last pages of this pamphlet. 



Co-operative agreement with the United States Forest Service was 

 sought and obtained. Great good has resulted. All Forest Officers 

 and employees who are permanent have been commissioned as Wardens 

 without salary. Their assistance has been considerable and bids fair 

 to increase, as a better understanding is reached relative to the work 

 of the two Departments. 



In conformity with the Statute, a co-operative agreement with the 

 United States Bureau of the Biological Survey has been perfected for 

 the purpose of administering the fund created by the setting aside of 

 25 cents from each license fee for the purpose of destroying predatory 

 animals. A statement in detail of the work under this agreement will 

 be found elsewhere in this pamphlet. 



We have been favored with a very considerable amount of help in 

 the way of voluntary subscriptions to our funds. The Montana Power 

 Company has given us $3,500.00 cash, a site, free water and free current 

 for pumping for the Great Falls Hatchery. The City of Lewistown has 

 given us $1,200.00 cash, a site, and water for the new hatchery at that 

 point. The City of Big Timber has given a site and water free for 

 the hatchery. Mr. W. A. Clark, Jr., has given us $1,675.00 to use 

 in building a hatchery at Ovando. Mr. Marcus Daly has turned over 

 his magnificent hatchery at Hamilton to this Department for a period 

 of ten years without rent, and has given us very great assistance and 

 co-operation in many other ways. The confidence shown in our efforts 

 by such men, companies, and cities is a most potent stimulant to con- 

 tinued and greater effort and we hope to merit its continuance. 



Some twenty-three hundred dollars ($2,300.00) was received in in- 

 terest on our funds loaned to the General Fund. This is a new de- 

 parture and has been of help. 



With your approval the undesigned was able to put into effect a 

 regulation for properly tagging the skins of beaver. This rule has 

 not only been most popular with those who have secured permits to 

 trap beaver, because of the fact that our Department tag identifies and 

 legalizes each skin, but we have tagged more than 3,400 beaver skins 

 and added about $3,500.00 to our exchecquer. 



Believing that the planting of large fish was essential to success 

 in building up our fishing streams, the writer brought this matter to 

 the attention of the Commission and the sportsmen over the State 

 through the kindness of the press. Great interest was shown in the 

 matter. As a result, a number of rearing ponds have been constructed 

 at various points in the State where the small fry can be placed isolated 

 from larger fish until they have attained greater size and have be- 

 come accustomed to living under natural conditions before being 

 placed in the streams. Four of these ponds have been built at Green- 

 ough Park in Missoula, and, owing to the fact that branch and main 



