200 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



bia River for many miles. Government Meadows consist of about 100 

 acres and are fringed all around with a fine growth of trees. This 

 remarkable "nook" in the mountains lies at an altitude of about 5000 

 feet above sea level and slopes to the southwest. From the northeast 

 side can be obtained a fine view of Mt. Hood. From the Meadows 

 there is a good trail via the big bend in Eight Mile Creek and over 

 Long Prairie to Lookout Mountain, which is 6287 feet high and located 

 about eight miles east of Mt. Hood. From Lookout Mountain you have 

 a grand view in all directions. To the west, down into the valley of 

 the East Fork of Hood River and on across the valley to Mt. Hood; 

 south down into Badger Lake, five miles away, and on south until you 

 see Mt. Jefferson looming up forty^five miles away. There is a zig-zag 

 trail down the south side of Lookout Mountain, then it runs on over 

 Gumquack and down into Little and Big Badger Lakes, which are 

 situated in a big horseshoe curve of the mountains. 



Big Badger Lake is down in the bottom of the valley and has an 

 area of about fifty acres. Little Badger Lake is on a bench of the 

 mountain side, 900 feet higher and one mile north of Big Badger, and 

 has an area of about twenty acres. On a ridge above and north of 

 Little Badger Lake, one of the grandest views of the mountains can be 

 had — looking southwest one can see the two lakes below and further 

 on the hills and valleys and in the distance grand old Mt. Jefferson. 



HOOD RIVER COUNTY 



A feature of the distribution of a carload of Rainbow trout fry in 

 the streams of Hood River county September 4th, was that of the 

 transportation of twenty-eight cans of trout to Fall Creek by a com- 

 pany of forest rangers. 



KLAMATH COUNTY 



Deputy Game Warden H. D. Stout, of Klamath county, reports the 

 planting of 5,000 crawfish in Crater Lake and 3,000 in Diamond Lake 

 early in the month of August. The crawfish were taken from the 

 waters of Sprague River and O'Dell Lake and transported to the above 

 named lakes by automobile, where they were liberated. The work of 

 stocking Crater and Diamond lakes with crawfish was successfully 

 accomplished by the State Game Department under the direction of the 

 Oregon Fish and Game Commission, and was done for the purpose of 

 providing food for the trout and young trout fry which have been 

 planted in these lakes within the last year or two. 



Gus Melhase, a Klamath county sportsman, killed one large buck 

 deer and three bear on a recent hunting trip and now declares that 

 deer hunting is too tame entirely. Gus says nothing but bears go here- 

 after with him, and grizzlies are preferred. 



A black-tailed deer that weighed 173 pounds was killed on Parker 

 Mountain a few days ago by Jack Pringle. A number of other Klamath 

 county sportsmen have had good luck in bagging large deer this season. 



