INDEX
Otepret Stare
GAME COMMISSION BULLETIN
VOLUME IV, NUMBERS 1 TO 12
JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1949
ADMINISTRATION
No. Month
Fisheries Staff Hold Annual Conference... 1 Jan.
Game and Fisheries Division Heads
Appointed
9 Sept.
Game Field Agents Meet
7 July
Governor Appoints New Members to
Game Commission
8 Aug.
Smelt License Sales High
5 May
1948 License Sales Show Increase
7 July
Page
3
3
8
3
3
Joint Aerial Antelope Survey Completed. 5 May
1949 Antelope Season
10 Oct.
All Oregon Antelope Hunters Report.... 12 Dec.
1948 Deer and Elk Kills
1949 Deer Kill
3
2
3
1
2
Feb.
9
Sept.
Nov.
May
5
1
7
July
6
9
5
1
2
Sept.
May
1
1
Jan.
1
Feb.
1949 Game Outlook
1
John McKean
and R. U. Mace 8 Aug.
1
June
Sept.
5 May
7
1
February Meeting of the Game Commission 3 March
Progress Report on the Public
10 Oct.
Shooting Program
9 Sept.
Sauvie Island Shooting Area
11
5
6
9
12
Dec.
3
1
1
Oct.
1
6
7
June
July
8
Aug.
7
8
2
4
April
Sept.
1
5
July
1
May
1
1
1
10
9
7
5
1
8
8
Jan.
Aug.
Aug.
6
FEATURE ARTICLES
Back Country Lakes
Reino Koski 6
East and Pauline Lake
Fishery
Robert L. Borovicka 4
Economic Aspects of the Wildlife
Resources
P W. Schneider 12
McKenzie River
Investigations
Chris Jensen 3
Our Wildlife Today
David A. Aylward 4
Progress Report on the Public Shooting
Program
A V. Meyers 10
Rainbow Trout
H J Rayner 11
The Band-Tailed Pigeon
W. B. Morse 7
June
1
April
1
Dec.
1
March
April
1
8
Oct.
Nov.
1
July
1
1
2
1
4
FIRE ARMS
Summary of 1949 Hunting Regulations ....
Elk
Elk Season Opens October 25
Information Please
Game Field Agents Meet
New Laws Now in Effect
Oregon Big Game Hunters Rate Higher
Than Other States in Returns
Seeing is Believing
Winter Big Game Losses
1948 Deer and Elk Kills
1948 in Review
1949 Game Outlook
1949 Hunting Regulations
F A. Westerman
Page
FEDERAL AID
Antelope
Is It a Deer or a Man?
Meat
No. Month
Winter Pheasant Feeding
Francis Schneider
Study
R U. Mace
1948 Deer and Elk Kills
C A. Lockwood
1948 in Review
1949 Angling Regulations...R. C. Holloway
3
BIG GAME
Big Game Winter Problems
Deer
Deer Hunters Reminded to Mail
Report Cards
Deer Report Cards Due
Fawns Like to be Left Alone
Information Please
Trout FishingSport or
8
Aug.
6
June
1
Angling Stress Heavy in Central
Oregon Waters
8
Aug.
7
Four Cascade Lakes Yield 45 Tons Fish
1
FISHERIES
Back Country Lakes
Census
East and Paulina Lake Fishery
Jan.
4 April
1
1
Fishways and Screens
Lake-Klamath Screening Program
Started
Preliminary Work Started on Marmot
Fish Screen
1948 in Review
Hatcheries
Construction Projects Completed
Contracts Awarded for Construction
Work
1948 in Review
How Old is a Sturgeon?
Lake Trout in Odell Lake
7
July
8
9
Sept.
2
1
Jan.
1
12
Dec.
2
8
1
Aug.
Jan.
2
1
11
12
Nov.
Dec.
4
3
8
Aug.
April
3
4
12
Dec.
2
1
1
Jan.
Jan.
1
11
Nov.
5
March
Jan.
1
Nov.
1
Liberations
Fish Plantings Continue
Spring Trout Releases Underway
Trout Liberations by Pack String
Completed for Season
1948 in Review
1948 Trout Liberations
Life Photographer Does Story on Salmon
McKenzie River Investigations
MeetingsFisheries Staff Conference
Rainbow Trout
3
1
11
5
7
3
FISHERIES
PUBLIC SHOOTING GROUNDS
(Continued)
No. Month
No. Month
6
June
7
Progress Report on the Public
Shooting Program
Public Shooting Grounds Hunting
2
Feb.
March
April
Feb.
May
5
Report, 1948
Sauvie Island Shooting Area
Regulations and Seasons
Lakes Open June 15
Summary of Angling Regulations
for 1949
Too Many Fish
Trout Anglers Open Season May 1
1949 Angling Regulations
Smelt License Sales High
Page
3
4
2
5
2
3
1
3
10
3
9
Oct.
Page
1
March
6
Sept.
4
REGULATIONS AND SEASONS
Angling
Tagging
Rogue River Fish Tagging Project
Tagging Experiments
April
May
3
5
7
July
3
11
Nov.
2
7
July
6
4
2
Trash Fish Control
Trash Fish Control in Lakes Underway..
Trash Fish Removed from
Ochoco Reservoir
Trout FishingSport or Meat
FOREIGN STATES
Colorado Senate Keeps Bear off
6 June
Predator List
5 May
Joint Aerial Antelope Survey Completed.
Pacific Waterfowl Flyway Committee Meets 4 April
8
3
5
FURBEARERS
Second Beaver Sale Held
The 1949 Beaver Pelt Sale
Trappers Open Season This Month
Trappers Receive Less Revenue
'48-'49 Season
30 Million Fur Skins Produced Yearly
in U. S.
7
July
5
11
May
4
3
Nov.
1
7
July
4
1
Jan.
6
February
March
April
May
June
August
October
Fisheries Staff Hold Annual Conference
Game Field Agents Meet
Lockwood Elected President Western
Game Association
Oregon 1950 Host to Conservation Education and Publicity Group
North American Wildlife Conference
Attended by Commission Men
Pacific Waterfowl Flyway Committee
Meets
Western Association Game Commissioners Meet in Seattle
Wildlife Conference Convenes in March....
Trapping
Game Bills Passed by Legislature
Trappers Open Season This Month
2
10
5
6
5
7
1
7
Feb.
April
Feb.
5
Oct.
May
1
1
June
2
2
May
9 Sept.
9 Sept.
10 Oct.
10 Oct.
10 Oct.
8 Aug.
8 Aug.
3
1
3
4
7
7
2
1
6
5
May
5
11
Nov.
1
8
Aug.
2
3
March
7
2
Feb.
3
4
4
April
April
8
June
8
7
July
3
9
Sept.
1
Increase in Game Code Arrests
1
Jan.
March
April
May
June
July
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Annual Waterfowl Inventory
Duck and Goose Increase Reported by
Fish and Wildlife Service
Rogue River Fish Tagging Project
3
Cooperation Essential in Habitat
3 March
Improvement
12 Dec.
Eliza Island Field Day
Habitat Improvement for Upland Game... 8 Aug.
9 Sept.
Hungarian Partridge Eggs Imported
Pheasant Feeders and Feeding Stations
2 Feb.
in Opreation
Pheasant Field Rearing Projects Set Out
7 July
by Game Commission
2 Feb.
Quail Trapping Started
7 July
The Band-Tailed Pigeon
10 Oct.
Upland Game Seasons Open
9 Sept.
Winter Pheasant Feeding Study
1 Jan.
1948 Pheasant Liberations
1 Jan.
1948 in Review
11 Nov.
1949 Band-Tailed Pigeon Report
8 Aug.
1949 Game Outlook
8 Aug.
1949 Hunting Regulations
STATE POLICE
U. S. FISH AND WILDLIFE
3
4
5
6
7
9
11
1
7
Sept.
Nov.
Jan.
July
10 Oct.
7
1
Nov.
3
4
April
5
4
April
5
7
July
2
Feb.
11
3
10
PREDATORS
Colorado Senate Keeps Bear off
Predator List
at July Meeting
Juveniles Not Allowed to Hunt Alone
Migratory Game Seasons Set
Sauvie Island Shooting Area
Upland Game Seasons Open
Waterfowl Regulations by Flyways
1949 Antelope Season
1949 Game Outlook
1949 Hunting Regulations
4
6
MEETINGS
Commission
December
2
New Laws Now in Effect
Game Farm Management Program
Approved
for 1949
Trout Anglers Open Season May 1
1949 Angling Regulations
Hunting
Elk Season Opens October 25
Game Bills Passed by Legislature
Hunting Regulations to be Considered
2
Miscellaneous
GAME FARMS
Pheasant Field Rearing Projects Set Out
by Game Commission
Winter Pheasant Feeding Study
Angling Regulation Hearing in January.. 12 Dec.
Angling Stress Heavy in Central
8 Aug.
Oregon Waters
5 May
Game Bills Passed by Legislature
6 June
Lakes Open June 15
Summary of Angling Regulations
6
June
8
3
UPLAND GAME
3
8
1
4
2
3
2
1
7
1
6
1
3
1
6
WATERFOWL
ILLUSTRATIONS
No. Month
2 Feb.
Annual Waterfowl Inventory Held
Duck and Goose Increase Reported by
Fish and Wildlife Service
4 April
Duck and Goose Numbers Increase
5 May
Duck Hunting Made Hard
5 May
Information Please
6 June
Migratory Game Seasons Set
9 Sept.
Pacific Waterfowl Flyway
Committee Meets
4 April
Public Shooting Grounds Hunting
Report, 1948
3 March
Sauvie Island Shooting Area
9 Sept.
Waterfowl Regulations by Flyways
10 Oct.
2nd Waterfowl Season Opens December 19. 12 Dec.
1948-49 Duck Stamp Sales Break Record.. 11 Nov.
MISCELLANEOUS
Areas Needed for Habitat Improvement
Program
Ask Landowner for Permission to
Hunt or Fish
Boating Hazard on Lower Deschutes
CVA Fish and Wildlife
Distribution of Individual Resident
Hunters by County
Expenses of Average 1948 N. Y. Deer
Hunter
Game Commission to Furnish Sportsman's
Clubs with Multifiora Rose Plants
Hunters Urged to Watch for Birds
Hunting Accidents in 1948
Information Please
Let's Be Consistent
Log Jams
Oregon Big Game Hunters Rate Higher
Than Other States in Returns
Our Wildlife Today
Pintail from Labrador Recovered
in England
Seeing is Believing
Smelt License Sales High
The Raw Fur Market
The Young and the Old of It
Too Many Fish!
What About the Multiflora Rose ?
Wildlife or House Cats'
30 Million Fur Skins Produced
Yearly in U. S.
2
7
7
3
5
6
4
7
1
8
Prevent Forest Fires
7
11
July
3
Nov.
5
contour farming 9 "
6
June
3
7
July
4
9
Sept.
Aug.
3
8
"Why doesn't Farmer Brown try
Charts
Fur Catch Report, 1948-49
Trapping Season
Organization of Oregon State
Game Commission
Who Kills the Ducks
8
Fisheries
6
Rainbow Trout Weighing 231/2 Pounds
Sign Along Smith River
7
6
6
July
June
June
8
12
Dec.
7
6
June
11
Nov.
1
6
Jan.
June
7
5
2
7
11
Nov.
5
6
June
3
4
4
April
April
9
9
Sept.
Sept.
2
Feb.
12
Dec.
March
March
the plant cover above here"
Page
2
1
3
3
3
No. Month
East Lake Rainbow Trout
4 April
4
Fishery Biologists Seining
2 Feb.
1
Fly Fishing on McKenzie River
3 March
1
Game Commission Makes War on
Trash Fish
10 Oct. 4 &5
Hunting and Fishing, It's a Big Business . 12 Dec. 4 &5
Lake Trout
12 Dec.
3
Landing a Trout
4 April
3
Pulling a Fyke Net from Leaburg Canal. 3 March
4
Rainbow Trout Weighing 15 Pounds,
3 Ounces
11 Nov.
6
July
5 May
"One of our dams would have done
the job if they hadn't destroyed
8
8
7
3 March
( Continued)
Page
1
8
5
5
3
3
8
2
1
11
Nov.
4
1
Jan.
6
Sturgeon Weighing 1100 Pounds and
Section of Sturgeon Pectoral Fin
Nov.
Feb.
7
2
11
Nov.
4
1
1
Jan.
Jan.
1
1
10
10
10
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
3
11
Nov.
1
1
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
1
1
5
5
6
1
June
April
April
June
Jan.
5
5
5
5
7
2
Feb.
6
June
8
Aug.
1
Jan.
4
6
8
7
8
Aug.
8
10
Oct.
6
July
July
March
5
7
3
11
7
Fishways and Screens
Experimental Electric Screen, Hood
River Dam
Hood River Below Dam
New Diversion Dam, Ana River
Old Controls on Ana River
Summer Lake Main Water Control Dike .
Hatcheries
Deschutes River from Oak Springs
Trout Hatchery
Mid-winter, Wizard Falls Trout Hatchery
New Building, Diamond Lake
Open Air Building, Diamond Lake
Liberations
Airplane Being Loaded with Fish
Dipping Hold-over Trout
Fish Distributed
Pack String Loaded with Fish
Weighing Fish Before Release
1
6
4
4
3
1
Maps
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Big Game
Antelope
8
Aug.
1
1
5 May
Bull Elk Going Over the Top of a
Hunting and Fishing, It's a Big Business. 12 Dec. 4 &5
Mule Deer Photographed During Eastern Oregon Cold Spell
3 March
2
Successful Deer Hunter
5 May
5
Cartoons
CartoonDeer
CartoonPheasant
Don't Say It, Sign It
Joe Beaver
"Flip -flap Pete is a one-man fire crew"
"Fred Farmer lost his home in the
big forest fire last summernow
I'm losing mine"
"Is this the forest litter you're always
talking about, Joe ?"
12
10
Dec.
Oct.
1
Jan.
8
8
3
8
Aug.
2
9
Sept.
5 May
Angling Regulation Zones
Cascade Mountain Region
Hunting Pressure and Kill
Watersheds of Oregon
1948-49 Distribution by Flyways of
Waterfowl, Hunting Pressure and Kill.
Public Shooting Grounds
Aerial View of the Narrows,
Malheur Refuge
Upland Game
Band-Tailed Pigeon
Band-Tailed Pigeon in Benton County....
7
7
3
12
Dec.
8
Aug.
6
3
2
Cage in Which Quail are Transported....
Cars of Hunters at Commercial Pigeon
Shooting Stand
Hungarian Partridge
Hungarian Partridge Eggs Being
Parked Cars of Pheasant Hunters
9
3
10
Sept.
Oct.
4
3
Unpacked
ILLUSTRATIONS
(Continued)
Pheasant Hunter and Dog
Pigeon Hunters
Pigeon Hunters Being Checked
Quail for Transplanting
Ringneck Pheasant
Shipment of Hungarian Partridge Eggs .
Typical Pigeon Habitat
Valley Quail and Mountain Quail
No. Month
8 Aug.
11
Nov.
7
July
Page
5
3
7
9
9
9
7
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
1
1
July
5
8
Aug.
4
3
March
7
4
Miscellaneous
Close-up of Multiflora Rose
Conservation in Action
5 May
8
No. Month Page
11 Nov.
8
Conservation in Action
2
Deer Hunters Mail Your Reports!
10 Oct.
4
Effects of Logging Operations
1 Jan.
Forest Camp of Fishermen
5
6 June
Hobo Lake from the Air
5
6 June
Kale Plants and Snow Covered Kale Field 9 Sept.
7
5
Life Photographer, Allen Grant
11 Nov.
6 June
3
Log Jams
3 March
7
Multiflora Rose
Paulina Creek
4 April
6
Paulina Lake in Winter Dress
4 April
1
Ranches in North Powder Valley
2 Feb.
3
Weekend Fishing Scene
4 April
7