Our national parks . of fine trout, stocked by individual enter-prise, Walton clubs, etc., in great part under theauspices of the United States Fish few trout carried into Hetch-Hetchy in a com-mon water-bucket have multiplied wonderfullyfast. Lake Tenaya, at an elevation of over eightthousand feet, was stocked eight years ago byMr. Murphy, who carried a few trout from Yo-semite. Many of the small streams of the east-ern slope have also been stocked with trout trans-ported over the passes in tin cans on the backsof mules. Soon, it would seem, all the streamsof the range will be en
Our national parks . of fine trout, stocked by individual enter-prise, Walton clubs, etc., in great part under theauspices of the United States Fish few trout carried into Hetch-Hetchy in a com-mon water-bucket have multiplied wonderfullyfast. Lake Tenaya, at an elevation of over eightthousand feet, was stocked eight years ago byMr. Murphy, who carried a few trout from Yo-semite. Many of the small streams of the east-ern slope have also been stocked with trout trans-ported over the passes in tin cans on the backsof mules. Soon, it would seem, all the streamsof the range will be enriched by these Hvely fish,and will become the means of drawing thousandsof visitors into the mountains. Catching troutwith a bit of bent wire is a rather trivial business,but fortunately people fish better than they most cases it is the man who is regarded as bait for catching men,for the saving of both body and soul, is impor-tant, and deserves all the expense and care be*stowed on A TROUT STREAM IN THE SIERRA NEVADA (KINGS RIVER) CHAPTER VII AMONG THE BIRDS OF THE YOSEMITE Travelers in the Sierra forests usually com-plain of the want of life. The trees/ theysay, are fine, but the empty stillness is deadly;there are no animals to be seen, no birds. Wehave not heard a song in all the woods. Andno wonder! They go in large parties with mulesand horses; they make a great noise; they aredressed in outlandish, unnatural colors; everyanimal shuns them. Even the frightened pineswould run away if they could. But Nature-lovers, devout, silent, open-eyed, looking and lis-tening with love, find no lack of inhabitants inthese mountain mansions, and they come to themgladly. Not to mention the large animals or thesmall insect people, every waterfall has its ouzeland every tree its squirrel or tamias or bird:tiny nuthatch threading the furrows of the bark,cheerily whispering to itself as it deftly pries ofEloose scales and examines the curled edges oflichens
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