American Fisheries Society. IES), 
to the original condition of things by saying: “I notice with 
Saapmse * ~.* ~*~ the barrenness of most of the waters of 
the Park. Beside the beautiful Shoshone and other smaller 
lakes there are hundreds of miles of as fine streams as any in 
existence without a fish of any kind.” He at once brought the 
matter to the attention of Col. Marshal McDonald, then the 
U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. Through his efforts 
7,000 young fish were planted that year and 150,000 the vear 
following. The work was remarkably successful from the first. 
For we read from the report of his successor, Capt. Anderson, 
only four years later: “During the season fish are taken in all 
the lakes and rivers in numbers almost passing belief. All 
streams heretofore stocked with trout now offered excellent fish- 
ing, probably no better exists anywhere.” 
Frequent reference in late reports of Major Pitcher, the 
present acting superintendent, to the fine fishing in these lakes 
and streams is sufficient proof of the lasting results of this work. 
In stocking these waters, it has been the plan to place but 
one species in each river basin. Thus to the Gardiner and its 
tributaries has come the brook trout from the east. The Gibbon 
has received the rainbow from the Pacific coast, and the Fire- 
hole the Lochleven from Scotland. Below the junction of these 
last named rivers, in the Madison, both species mingle with the 
black-spotted trout, the Montana grayling and a native white 
fish. Other waters on the west side of the divide have been 
stocked with the lake trout and land-locked salmon, while the 
native black-spotted trout has been left practically undisturbed 
in their natural habitat, the Yellowstone. 
The importance and value of this work will be understood 
if we remember that fully fifty miles of Park roadway, over 
which more than 10,000 tourists pass each year, lies along the 
course of these streams or skirts the lakes. But its greatest value 
is in its permanency. When other streams throughout the coun- 
try become unsuited for trout life, as many already are, the 
beautiful lakes and streams of Yellowstone Park preserved in 
their primeval purity will carry to future generations a knowl- 
edge of these lords of the finny tribes. 
Then, too, the region may in the future be the source from 
which shall come, from territory entirely under Government 
