. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFOENIA FISIE AND GAME. 59 isolation was its protection. In the year 1911, came the Pacific Light and Power Corporation, with thousands of workmen, to invade the solitudes of Big Creek Basin. At the lower end of the basin, at the head of the gorge through which Big Creek falls some 2,000 feet in a trifle over a mile, the company built a huge concrete dam. At first but 120 feet high, the dam is now being raised to a height of 150 fe
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFOENIA FISIE AND GAME. 59 isolation was its protection. In the year 1911, came the Pacific Light and Power Corporation, with thousands of workmen, to invade the solitudes of Big Creek Basin. At the lower end of the basin, at the head of the gorge through which Big Creek falls some 2,000 feet in a trifle over a mile, the company built a huge concrete dam. At first but 120 feet high, the dam is now being raised to a height of 150 feet. It impounds 150,000 acre-feet of water, and to the stock of rainbow trout already in the creek, the Fish and Game Commission has added several hundred thousand Loch Leven, eastern brook and rainbow fry. A mountain railway and a county wagon road permit an annual influx of several thousand people from all over the state to the shores of beautiful Huntington Lake. A fine hotel and many lesser ones are already located there. The Forest Service and the county of Fresno will jointly build a scenic road along the north shore of the lake during. Fig. 23. Huntington Lake, Fresno County, elevation 7,000 feet. Ferguson. Photograph by A. D. the coming summer, and the playgrounds commission of the city of Fresno has selected a site on the lake shore where it is planned to give annual outings to 5,000 children. Here, as elsewhere, the fishing is the chief lure which draws so many people to the mountains, but there is little danger of the fish supply becoming depleted; for not only will the lake support and harbor vast numbers of trout, but each spring, from out its depths, will emerge big, strong, spawning fish to ascend every tributary stream and the process of natural reproduction will go on to replenish the annual drain. Other notable examples of the incidental (or accidental) benefits which may follow the building of high impounding dams across moun- tain streams, are the Highland
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