. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 20 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. SAVE KLAMATH LAKE RESERVATION. BIRD California today is one of the greatest out-of-doors states in the union. Its mountains, lakes, forests, rivers and wealth of bird life attract people from every state in the country. Every man, woman and child in this state owes Theodore Roosevelt something for his far- sightedness and for his efforts in saving the Avild birds of the state. They not only owe something i
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 20 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. SAVE KLAMATH LAKE RESERVATION. BIRD California today is one of the greatest out-of-doors states in the union. Its mountains, lakes, forests, rivers and wealth of bird life attract people from every state in the country. Every man, woman and child in this state owes Theodore Roosevelt something for his far- sightedness and for his efforts in saving the Avild birds of the state. They not only owe something in the way of a cash contribution to a memorial for his far- Klamath Lake reservation. Here was a wide, open, shallow alkaline lake ten or twelve miles long. For miles and miles around the border was a vast tule marsh, white with the nesting multitudes. The beauty of Lower Klamath Lake was in its life, the flying birds that hovered over the wide, treeless area, the calling flocks that from time immemorial have held this as their own. Around the wide border of the lake a wild swamp grass grew, nur- tured by sub-irrigation, and a great num- ber of cattle were raised Fig. 7. Lower Klamath Lake, a federal bird reservation, from the west shore of the lake. An abundant tule growth on the east side of the lake forms an especially fine breeding ground for waterfowl and the islands in the lake are used as breeding grounds by cormorants, pelicans and great blue herons. Photograph by H. C. Bryant, June 9, 1914. (Neg. 1269, Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool.) sightedness, but they owe some effort toward saving these greatest living and useful monuments which he preferred to any other kind. Although Tjowcr Klamath Lake is a federal wild bird reservation by special proclamation and wild birds are carefully protected by both state and federal law, yet the vital defect in the whole situation is the present unfortunate condition which is bringing about the destruction of bird life on a vast scale a
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