STATE GAME AND FISH WARDEN. 



A Well Filled Creel. 



mining interests require the use of cyanide, but this interest 

 would not be jeopardized to compel all who use this deadly 

 poison to prevent the washings from the tanks being carried 

 into streams. 



Although hundreds of protests are received annually by 

 this department against the needless loss of fish through 

 irrigating ditches, yet as the laws now stand, there is no 

 remedy for this slaughter. The only redress possible is to 

 refuse to stock streams which are tapped by irrigating ditches. 

 Many ranchmen are now favorably disposed to the use of 

 paddle wheels or screens for the headgates of ditches and I 

 would suggest the consideration of this remedy by the Twelfth 

 Assembly. 



EFFECT OF FOREST FIRES ON GAME AND FISH. 



During the past summer and fall, Montana was subjected 

 to a series of destructive forest fires, the most serious of these 

 being in the western part of the state, extending from the 

 Canadian border to the Idaho line. Under the present law 

 all deputy game and fish wardens are ex-ofificio fire wardens. 

 From commendatory reports received from officers of the 

 forestry department I am lead to believe that this department, 



