Report 



of the 



Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner 



For the year 1907 



Albany N. Y., January i, 1908. 



To the Honorable, the Legislature : 



1 HERE WITH submit the Thirteenth Annual Report of the Forest, 

 Fish and Game Commission. The complete report will comprise a 

 statement from the head of each Department of the Commission 

 which will set forth at length the facts in relation to the work under- 

 taken and accomplished, together with an accurate account of moneys 

 received, expended, and the results obtained therefrom. 



The last Annual Report of this Commission showed an increased amount 

 of work done and increased results flowing therefrom. The improvement 

 during the past fiscal year over that of the year 1906, has been as marked 

 as that of 1 906 was over the preceding year. As stated in the last Report 

 of the Commission, in 1904, fines and penalties were collected to the amount 

 of $23,636.66; for 1905, $58,548.08, and for the year 1906, $61,255.03, 

 which was the high water mark. During the present year we have collected 

 from fines and penalties $52,264.77. The amount of fines and penalties 

 collected in a given year will, of necessity, vary even though the work is as 

 well done in one year as another. An ideal condition would be one under 

 which we would have no fines and penalties to collect. That would be a 



condition under which there would be no offenses committed. Undoubtedly 



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