THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 85 
are taking water from the Rogue River or its tribu- 
taries. Hundreds of thousands of trout fry are lost 
on the lands every irrigating season. 
We call attention to the Rogue not because it is 
an exceptional case, but because of the controversy 
which has made the Rogue River a State-wide issue 
in the past. The same situation prevails on every 
other stream whose waters are used for irrigation 
purposes. 
The Game Department is making an earnest 
effort to screen the more important projects this 
season, and hopes that within another year practi- 
cally all of the irrigation ditches which have been 
giving trouble in this respect, will be screened. How- 
ever, the work of the Department and the result of 
success it attains in the screening of these ditches 
will depend, to a large extent, upon the mental atti- 
tude of the people in the irrigation districts. Sports- 
men can assist the Game Department in an excep- 
tional way by lending their support and influence to 
this great work of saving our trout fry. For in all 
candor, there is no other problem, except one, which 
has such a far-reaching influence in its solution as 
this one of the unscreened irrigation ditch. 
BOY SCOUT GAME WARDENS 
The State Game Warden expects to receive a 
great deal of assistance from Boy Scouts through- 
out Oregon. Briefly, the plan is to appoint from 
more than two thousand Boy Scouts not to exceed 
one hundred of their number to the position of Boy 
Scout Game Warden. Examinations will be held 
