MONTANA STATE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



and the fields in the Flathead country compare favorably with any in the country. 

 These fields last year produced in round numbers 38,000 000 native or black- 

 spotted ti-out, 5,000,000 rainbow and 17,000,000 grayling. 



With our well equipped hatcheries and facilities for handling these eggs and 

 fish, with fishing waters we have in this state and with the increasing interest 

 being shown by anglers' clubs in the intelligent planting of fish, we soon will 

 have fishing that will be unequalled. 



PUBLIC SHOOTING GROUNDS 



MONTANA has taken steps to provide public shooting grounds for future- 

 generations. It is the policy of the state fish and game commission to 

 acquire shore line areas and other tracts to be set aside for sportsmen of 

 the future, in the face of the fact that desirable shooting grounds are being rap- 

 idly acquired by private shooting clubs. 



Michigan is likewise following out this policy. A plan is on foot to urge the 

 legislature of Michigan to provide for the purchase of some five million acres 

 of tax-delinquent land in the northern part of the state for public use in the 

 development of the forest and game 

 resources of the state. 



The financing of the purchase 

 of these lands, once forested but 

 now cut over and largely unpro- 

 ductive, is recognized as one of 

 the conservation problems of the 

 state. 



Legislation is proposed to per- 

 mit the state to take over these 

 lands permanently as recreational 

 areas and for state parks, forests, 

 game breeding grounds, public 

 shooting grounds and sanctuaries. 

 The state now owns only 350,000 

 acres of such lands in widely scat- 

 tered small tracts. The plan pro- 

 posed is that the state shall pur- 

 chase such lands at from 50 cents to 

 a dollar an acre, the funds to be de- 

 rived from a statewide hunting and 

 fishing license fee of $3. 



One good argument for the plan 

 is that it will assure all the people 

 of the state an equal right to use 

 the lands for recreation purposes. 

 One of the great problems of the Coyotes, wolves, mountain lions and other pred- 

 future is to provide places for the ^'^'^''■'> «"'"'«'•'' trapped and shot hi/ Montana's 

 , , jr iu • J.- salaried liiinters Jiave in former i/ears decimated 



people to go for their recreation, ,,..,,, ^,.;.., ,; r/ .„» i „ „# ii ■ i 



' ^ '^ ' 'Kline animals. .Here s one of the experienced 



including hunting and fishing. men and a part of his December catch. 



