. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. Log dam built in 1954 by the department on Little Bear Creek, San Bernardino County, to create a trout pool. (Fish and Game Photo by B. H. Unruh) How to maintain waters for fishing, hunting and other outdoor recreation in the face of accelerating development of water for other purposes is the most challenging problem ever to face Fish and Game peo- ple in California. This problem has been daily confronting the
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. Log dam built in 1954 by the department on Little Bear Creek, San Bernardino County, to create a trout pool. (Fish and Game Photo by B. H. Unruh) How to maintain waters for fishing, hunting and other outdoor recreation in the face of accelerating development of water for other purposes is the most challenging problem ever to face Fish and Game peo- ple in California. This problem has been daily confronting the depart- ment during the last decade, and in the past two years has been highly intensified as a wide variety of water developments have taken shape on man\' of California's major streams. The Golden State is growing at such an accelerated rate that its effect has sometimes been termed "ex- ; On July 1, 1946, there were 9,559,000 resi- dents in California. Only 10 years later the figure had grown by 4,000,000-and of these, 1,000,000 arrived during the biennium just completed. Problem Highlighted In another two years there may be a population of 15,000,000. Most of this growth has been in water- short Southern California, a fact which dramatically highlights the problem facing state authorities: the north has the water and the south has the need. The solution is obvious; export excess water to the areas of need. Not so obvious to the general public are the problems which this solution has posed for matters of fish, game and recreation. Each new appeal to the State for water for highly important domestic, agricultural and industrial pur- poses called for immediate answers from the Depart- ment of Fish and Game as to how fish could be pro- tected. The growing demands for water and the department's legal responsibility to protect fish and game needs have taxed personnel to the utmost. Prep- arations for hearings, which have greatly increased during the period, and
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