. California game "marked down"; . GRIZZLY Ferox. The mountain district furnishes ideal haunts for bear—grizzly and black,brown and cinnamon, with California lions and other feline beasts ofprey, not to mention wolves and coyotes. Deer are very mountain and foothill streams, an endless list of them named, andothers yet to be explored and given a place on the map, literally swarmwith trout. One of these, Whitney Creek, has recently added that [ 21 ] expression of highest piscine beauty, Golden Trout, salmo mykiss aquahonita, to the royal family. The valley is traversed b
. California game "marked down"; . GRIZZLY Ferox. The mountain district furnishes ideal haunts for bear—grizzly and black,brown and cinnamon, with California lions and other feline beasts ofprey, not to mention wolves and coyotes. Deer are very mountain and foothill streams, an endless list of them named, andothers yet to be explored and given a place on the map, literally swarmwith trout. One of these, Whitney Creek, has recently added that [ 21 ] expression of highest piscine beauty, Golden Trout, salmo mykiss aquahonita, to the royal family. The valley is traversed by Kern River and by numerous other lessimportant natural streams of living water, and by an endless network ofartificial conduits, canals and laterals. In addition to these are severalarge lakes and reservoirs; one of them, called Buena Vista, is an immense natural basin that has been artificially assisted to a water capac-ity of higher level. The foothills are sparsely wooded with oaks (white. CALIIORNIA Californica. and live), pines, laurel, buckeye and madrona, with underbrush not usu-ally so dense as to impede travel. The higher mountains are clad in heavyforests of coniferous giants ; the valleys by indigenous white and liveoaks in open park-like distribution, and the streams bordered by pop-lars and willows. Much of the valley covered by artemisia offeringshelter to small game. Everywhere, in foothills and valley, quail areabundant, and this is also true of doves and larks. Very small gunningcraft is needed to well filled bags. For water fowl the favorite resort is Buena Vista Reservoir, before L 22 ] noted. It lies about forty miles southwest of Bakersfield and covers anarea of more than twenty-five thousand acres; is surrounded by oak,woodland and other trees and shrubs, and in places, by marsh and low-lying lands. This lake teems with every variety of water fowl. Wildgeese whiten the land and water and darken the sky. Of the genus ansernone are wanting—h
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