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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



on eight of the national forests of this 

 state sixty-four cattle and three horses 

 met death from hunters' bullets during 

 the last open season. And this killing of 

 animals is but one of the just complaints 

 of the cattleman. Some hunters, neglect- 

 ful of others' interests, break down fences 

 and leave gates open. Furthermore, in 

 late summer, campers often usurp the 

 only watering place for miles around and 

 continually drive the cattle away, to 

 finally die for lack of water. Unless hunt- 

 ers take some steps to correct these evils 

 themselves, it is certain that the men 

 financially concerned will be instrumental 

 in further curtailing the hunter, and the 

 careful will be made to suffer with the 

 careless. 



EDUCATIONAL WORK IN YOSEMITE 

 TO CONTINUE. 



At the request of the National Park 

 Service, the Fish and Game Commission 

 will again cooperate in educational work 

 in the Yosemite National Park this com- 

 ing summer. As in past years, the inci- 

 dental expenses and the expense of as- 

 sistants will be assumed by the National 

 Park Service. Last year over 31,000 

 persons received instructions through the 

 medium of lectures, and over 2000 per- 

 sons were taken afield and given first-hand 

 information regarding wild life. 



The California Nature Study League, 

 which has been greatly interested in the 

 project, recently sent the following letter 

 to President Newbert : 



Mr. Frank Newbert, 



President California Fish and Game 

 Commission, 

 Sacramento, California. 

 My dear Mr. Newbert : 



On behalf of the California Nature 

 Study League, may I thank you for the 

 Fish and Game Commission's continued 

 conduct of the educational work at Yo- 

 semite National Park? Tliere is probably 

 no money expended by the State of Cali- 

 fornia that will eventually bring bigger 

 dividends to the taxpayers than snch 

 educational work. 



The last time I was leaving Yosemite 

 I happened to meet on the train a group 

 of people from San Mateo County. One 

 of the children, a girl of about eleven, had 

 been tested in the mental tests at Stan- 

 ford University. She ranked so high that 

 the professor declared she was about one 

 in a million. In other words, there were 

 only about 110 people in the United 

 States, adults and children, as bright as 

 this gii"l. In other words, she will be a 



genius of the tomorrow. She had had 

 training along other lines, as literature 

 and art, but her first stimulus to scien- 

 tific education wa.s through the work of 

 Dr. Bryant of your staff. 



Just what may come of this you and 

 I will probably never know. We will 

 probably both be old men if we even live 

 to see the fruiting of that intellect. Does 

 it not show dramatically, however, the 

 tremendous possibilities of the wild-life 

 conservation work which your commission 

 is doing? 



Sincerely, 



(Signed) C. M. Goethe, President. 

 California Nature Study League. 



STANFORD PLANS ANIMAL REFUGE. 

 If the plans of the Zoological Club at 

 Stanford University are successful the 

 SOO acres comprising the Stanford Farm 

 will become a .state game refuge. The 

 Zoological Club has offered to furnish the 

 labor necessary for making and posting 

 signs and to render all possible aid in 

 detecting and reporting violators of the 

 refuge. Illegal hunting and wanton kill- 

 ing by people from off the campus has 

 stimulated this move to carefully conserve 

 all the animal life of the university 

 holdings. 



BIG GAME IN SWEDEN. 



Moose are to be found in many of the 

 central and northern provinces of Sweden 

 and are being conserved and protected 

 in spite of open hunting grounds and the 

 absence of artificial game regulations 

 which are so common in other European 

 countries. The open season is two weeks 

 in September, and each permittee is 

 allowed to take one cow and one bull. 

 There is no general license system ; the 

 hunter may procure a license from the 

 state for hunting on state lands, or, if 

 hunting on private lands, a permit may 

 sometimes be obtained from the owner ; 

 in either ease the cost of the license is 

 much greater than the cost of the 

 American license. 



The following table shows the number 

 of moose killed in different parts of 

 Sweden during the year 1919, as reported 

 by forest supervisors and rangers of the 

 Swedish Forest Service : 



Ntimhcr Killed. During the Two Weeks 

 Open 8easo7i. 



Bulls 791 



Cows 1 580 



Calves 7 



Sex not given 31 



Total 1509 



