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may be seen running in and out among the late flowers. The espionage 

 of the mother is not needed long; in a few days the young birds can 

 fly, and a tew weeks later are members of some big flock which filUs 

 the air with a roar of wings as it rises to plunge over the divide into 



some deep ravine. 



FISH. 

 The lakes and trout streams of the Forest Reserves commend them- 

 selves to the lover of nature and sport. In the north lies Lake Tahoe, 

 with its system of lakes and tributary streams and brooks well stocked 

 with trout. About Mount Whitney are glacial lakes, while the river 

 which forms the Yosemite Fall, comes down in one stupendous leap of 

 half a mile, rushing boisterously through boulders and rocks to form 





A Night Catch of Trout at Bear Valley Lake. 



later a trout stream; eddying through banks of flowers and arcades of 

 grateful shade to the summerland below. The streams of the southern 

 portions of the Reserves are like nearly all the characteristic rivers of 

 Southern California dry at intervals and often throughout almost the 

 entire length from the mountain to the sea, but in reality flowing on 

 beneath the deep sand bed in which they are seemingly lost. Such are 

 the San Gabriel and Los Angeles rivers, the Santa Ana at times, and 

 others which can be traced into the green heart of the Sierra Madre 

 mountains, where under normal conditions they are rushing, living 

 streams, the home of the rainbow trout. 



