. The bulletin. Forest reserves Middle West Periodicals; National parks and reserves Middle West Periodicals. Before entering this branch of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the admission must be made that my impressions and ideas of the plans and ViTorl: of this gigantic conservation army were indeed very biased. Possibly, I was not alone in that conviction. All throuj^h life itself you find most people judge too harshly and too soon, even if that privilege is not theirs. In this connection, it is desire to call your attention to one phase of our work, namely; the lake and stream developm
. The bulletin. Forest reserves Middle West Periodicals; National parks and reserves Middle West Periodicals. Before entering this branch of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the admission must be made that my impressions and ideas of the plans and ViTorl: of this gigantic conservation army were indeed very biased. Possibly, I was not alone in that conviction. All throuj^h life itself you find most people judge too harshly and too soon, even if that privilege is not theirs. In this connection, it is desire to call your attention to one phase of our work, namely; the lake and stream development being con- ducted in the Manistee National Forest environs by Manistee River Camp and Jolin Van Norman, our Wild Life specialist. To date we have conducted surveys on every good fishing creek and lake within a 20 mile radius of our camp at Brethren and have al- ready accomplished 7 miles of actual stream improvement including de- flectors, square covers, and wing deflectors. The log shelters and deflectors have largely been placed in trout streams which were already famous for trout so with the increased feed- ing and hiding places we can expect results. Brush shelters, snag shelters, and gravel spavming boxes were placed in lakes v/hose condition is not conducive to good propagation. The survival of fingerling mil be greatly aided by their hiding in the brush shelters. The spawn also have better of ciiccessful hatching, and not become submerged in silt because of the gravel boxes. Through the co-operation of our local Izaak ?[alton league vre were able to erect a durable fish screen a mile from the mouth of the most famous trout stream in Western Michigaii, namely; Pine Creok. The pur- pose of this is to keep out the steehead and rainbow trout and give the brown and speckled trout better chances of spawning and surviving, ^'Je are at present maintaining a guard constantly at this screen and will do so until after spawning ends to prevent its being dynamited
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