. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME. 143. Fish ladder at Snow Mountain dam, Mendocino County. Investigation has shown that fish readily ascend this ladder. WILD GAME AND ITS PRESER- VATION. Under the title "Wild Game and Its Preservation—A Correction of Some Popular Fallacies" the San Francisco Examiner has been running a series of articles attacking the State Fish and Game Commission and defending the market hunter. The author
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME. 143. Fish ladder at Snow Mountain dam, Mendocino County. Investigation has shown that fish readily ascend this ladder. WILD GAME AND ITS PRESER- VATION. Under the title "Wild Game and Its Preservation—A Correction of Some Popular Fallacies" the San Francisco Examiner has been running a series of articles attacking the State Fish and Game Commission and defending the market hunter. The author of the series is Mr. Fred S. Walker, of Los Banos, a former newspaperman. Mr. Walker contends, in the first place, that all of the waterfowl of the interior valleys are on the road to extinction, owing to recla- mation projects. So long as they will soon be entirely exterminated, he says, let us make the best use of them possible at the present time. This use is, he points out, to place them on the market and to allow the market hunter free range even to the extent of dispensing with the limit law. Many of Mr. Walk- ers' arguments are false and his state- ments inconsistent. As an example of his inconsistency the following conflict- ing statements may be noted. He writes : "The game of the valleys—irrespective of 'preservative' laws—is fated to become extinct. Its destiny is beyond the control of any ; In another para- graph we find: "As practically all our ducks and geese are bred in the isolated provinces of Canada, and their foraging is detrimental to the garden industry of this state, and as the shooting of a mil- lion birds here every year would not materially affect the supply, it would seem the par*: of wisdom to wipe out the fifty- a-week limit on these birds and to open up the markets of the state for their sale so that all might enjoy on their tables the flesh of wild ; If waterfowl are doomed to extinction in the interior v
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