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(twenty-eight cans) of Golden trout, averaging six inches in length. 

 The expedition was two days in reaching Lone Pine, four days in the 

 Owens River Valley, where the temperature was 102 degrees; one day 

 from Bishop to North Lake on Bishop Creek. At North Lake, Forest 

 Supervisor Paul G. Redington and the writer met the expedition, and 

 after resting the fish a day at North Lake we proceeded over Piute 

 Pass, crossing on fifty feet of snow, and planted Piute Creek from its 

 source to its junction with French Canon Creek. We also stocked 

 Desolation Lake, Muriel Lake, and an unnamed lake on the bench on 

 the south side of Piute Creek. We then stocked French Cafion Creek 

 for several miles above its junction with Piute Creek. On July 27th 

 and 28th we stocked Heart Lake and the creek flowing through it, Marie 

 Lake, and the headwaters of Bear Creek. The route was from the 

 junction of Piute and French Canon Creeks via Blaney Meadows and 

 Seldon Pass. Ten cans of adult Golden trout were used in making the 

 plants. At our junction camp the expedition was divided into two parts. 

 Deputies Bullard and Brownlow going to Mammoth with half the 

 pack train, while Deputy Ellis, with the rest of the party, returned to 

 Whitney Meadows to pick up a second load of Golden trout. 



On August 8th Deputy Ellis reached Lone Pine with sixteen cans of 

 adult Golden trout, which he took by motor truck to Mammoth, where 

 the load was delivered to Deputies Bullard and Brownlow and by them 

 taken by mule train to Garnet Lake, Shadow Lake and the adjacent 

 streams. Thousand Island Lake was not planted for the reason that 

 another variety of trout was found to be already in those waters. 



It had been our intention to deliver part of this consignment of Golden 

 trout to the Yosemite National Park authorities at Thousand Island 

 Lake, but the party from the park, which was to have met our pack- 

 train, left the scene before our expedition arrived. We probably will 

 not be able to supply the park authorities with a stock of Golden trout 

 until those which we planted near the park line shall have become 

 established. 



Our whole field force was reassembled at Whitney Meadows by 

 August I2th. Taking stock-fish from Rock Creek August 14th and 

 15th, we planted the unnamed lakes and creeks on the extreme head- 

 waters of the Big Kern near Crag Ericcson and Mt. Genevra. These 

 stock-fish were a magnificent lot, many of them being twelve to four- 

 teen inches in length. Incidentally, this work completes the stocking, 

 with Golden trout, of the eastern slope of the Kern River watershed 

 clear to the sources of that stream. Returning to Whitney Meadows, 

 we picked up twenty cans of adult Golden trout and on August 24th 

 we started on the long pack for the Kaweah and Kings River watershed. 

 Our route was via Kern Lakes, Coyote Pass, Farewell Gap, Mineral 

 King, and the main Middle Fork of the Kaweah. We stocked Cliff 

 Creek at Lone Tree Camp and the lake some two miles above that 

 spot. This lake, sometimes called Tamarack Lake, we christened 



