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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



directoi' ; Andrew Jessen, director ; Cali- 

 fornia Fish and Game Commission, 

 Charles A. Vogelsang, chief executive 

 officer." 



As a result of the above agreement, a 

 dismissal of the case was ordered by the 

 superior court. Thus was ended one of 

 the bitterest fights having to do with the 

 conservation of salmon and the enforce- 

 ment of the law relating to fishways. 



MOUNT DOME ANTELOPE HERD. 



The largest herd of antelope remaining 

 in California makes its home at the south 

 end of lower Klamath Lake, near Mount 

 Dome. A recent census has shown that 



COLD WEATHER KILLS PlSMO 



CLAMS. 

 Subtropical fruits and vegetables are 

 not the only things which may be killed 

 or injured by cold weather in California. 

 It has been reported to the State Fish 

 and Game Commission by its deputy H. D. 

 Becker that the recent cold snap has re- 

 sulted in the killing of great numbers of 

 Pismo clams, which in this instance may 

 be compared with subtropical fruit, for they 

 are a southern form and in San Luis Obispo 

 County, where freezing was most notice- 

 able, are near the northern limit of their 

 range. Some clams, like the eastern soft 

 shell which remains stationary in its hole 



Fig 57. Antelope on the proposed Mount Dome Antelope Refuge. Photograph taken 

 January 15, 1922, by J. O. Miller. About 40 antelope show in the picture. 



about 100 of these animals are to be 

 found in this region. Because of the past 

 hard winter these antelope were in need 

 of additional food. The big game com- 

 mittee of the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, headed by Mr. M. Hall McAllister, 

 became interested and furnished funds for 

 the winter feeding of the herd. The ac- 

 companying photograph (Fig. 57) shows 

 forty of the eighty-seven animals which 

 came in to feed. The California Fish 

 and Game Commission, the United States 

 Forest Service, the California Academy 

 of. Sciences and other organizations are 

 cooperating to give these antelope a max- 

 imum of protection. Several men have 

 been deputized to watch for poachers and 

 to see that the animals are properly cared 

 for, and a move is now on foot to have 

 a large area set aside as a permanent 

 refuge for these antelope. 



in the mud, may be fi'ozen almost solid 

 and be no worse for the experience after 

 thawing out, but it is not so with the 

 Pismo clam. 



Through investigations made for the 

 Fish and Game Commission by Professor 

 F. W. Weymouth of Stanford University, 

 much has been learned of the growth and 

 habits of this interesting and most im- 

 portant of California's clams. The young 

 Pismo clams spend the first three years of 

 their existence above the low-tide line, on 

 gently sloping, sandy beaches. They are 

 very active creatures and can bury them- 

 selves rapidly in the sand by means of 

 their tongue-like "foot." And it is neces- 

 sary that they be active, for the sand is 

 continually moving in the surf, and in the 

 wash of the waves during the flow of 

 the tides up and down the beach they 



