. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 20 PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. GAME CONDITIONS. At the last legislature the bill providing for a deer license and a one buck limit which was proposed as a means of giving better protection for deer failed of passage by reason of the belief that the money would revert to the general treasury instead of to the fish and game preservation fund. This legislation must eventually come if we give the one large species of game mammal left in the
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 20 PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. GAME CONDITIONS. At the last legislature the bill providing for a deer license and a one buck limit which was proposed as a means of giving better protection for deer failed of passage by reason of the belief that the money would revert to the general treasury instead of to the fish and game preservation fund. This legislation must eventually come if we give the one large species of game mammal left in the state, in sufficient numbers for hunting, proper protection. The mule deer of the lava beds in Modoc County particularly need protection as the toll now being taken is altogether too large. An unusual problem presented itself during the winter of 1923 when large numbers of deer met death by falling into a cement power ditch on the American River near Placerville. Immediate action was taken with the result that more than 500 deer were safely rescued from the ditch and bridges allowed the safe crossing of more than 2800 others—all on a front of seven miles. The "Western States Gas and Electric Company, owners of the ditch, cooperated in rescuing the deer and a fence which has been installed will prevent a similar occurrence another Fig. 6. Lower Klamath Lake as it appeared in the siirmg of 1924, once a federal bird reservation and Cali- fornia's most extensive waterfowl breeding ground. Due to unwise drainage it is now but an alkali waste. Photograph by Blanche Shaw. The closing of the season on tree squirrels by the 1923 legislature proved a benefit to a species greatly reduced in numbers by a serious epidemic of disease. A continuation of the. closed season beyond the September, 1925, date would doubtless be advantageous. Wildfowl conditions continue favnral)1e. If ])reeding and feeding grounds can l)e maintained by developing an unfavorable sentiment toward the
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