INDEX
arepa State
GAME COMMISSION BULLETIN
JANUARY TO DECEMBER. 1911;
VOLUME HI, NUMBERS 1 TO 12
a
BIG GAME
ADMINISTRATION
Change in Game Commissioner
Fisheries Director Resigns
Game Licenses Appear in New Form
Game License Sales
Game Staff Meeting
Martin Reappointed to Commission
Public Relations Office Created
1947 License Sales
Antelope
No. Month
2 Feb.
Page
11
Nov.
1
9
7
Jan.
1
1
3
Sept.
8
July
2
4
April
9
Sept.
5 May
4
2
8
10
Oct.
7
July
8
6
Aug.
2
7
8
June
Sept.
4
9
10
Oct.
4
3
Deer
An Open Letter to Oregon Sportsmen.... 1 Jan.
12 Dec.
Archery Season Results
Areas Receive Releases of Mule Deer.... 12 Dec.
Attention Deer Hunters°
9 Sept.
4 April
Canvas Water Tanks Installed
Crossing of Blacktail and Whitetail Deer. 5 May
Field Agents Collecting Fawns
8 Aug.
Mild Fall Makes Good Browse
1 Jan.
Mr. Hunter, Save Your Deer Skins
10 Oct.
Recovering of All Fawns Picked Up
10 Oct.
Refuges in Western Oregon
5 May
Reports Pour In
12 Dec.
Tillamook Burn Losses
5 May
1 Jan.
Warning Issued to Doe Killers
Warning Not to Pick up Fawns
5 May
What is the Answer"
1 Jan.
Whitetail Deer Seen
2 Feb.
1948 Deer Tags
6 June
Elk
Compilation of Elk Report Cards
Hunting Reports Due..
Largest Elk Killed
Season Opens
Transplanting of Cow and Bull Elk
1947 Elk Seasons
Game Damage in Oregon
A F. Hamer
No. Month
Tagging Regulations
9 Sept.
Warning to Hunters to be Careful
9 Sept.
Why Special Seasons"
6 June
Winter Census Activities
3 March
1948 Hunting Regulations
8 Aug.
1948 Game Outlook
Robert U. Mace
and John McKean 8 Aug.
Page
3
2
1
2
4
1
FEATURE ARTICLES
BIG GAME
Autumn Census of Herds
Book Published (A. S. Einarsen)
Applications for Special Elk and Deer Tags
Big Game Salting Operations
Care of Game Animals
"Crimes Against Public Policy"
(Continued)
5
3
2
3
2
2
2
2
8
2
4
8
4
5
2
4
2
4
2
Feb.
2
12
12
10
10
Dec.
Dec.
Oct.
Oct.
3
1
3
Jan.
March
Game Division Program...P. W. Schneider 5 May
6 June
Game Staff 'Meeting
7 July
Gun Regulations for Game Hunters
9 Sept.
Habitat Development Program Expanded
7 July
Hunters Applying for Special Tags
9 Sept.
Hunting Regulations to be Considered
5 May
Logging Companies Urged Not to
Leave Powder Boxes
8 Aug.
Mountain Goats in Oregon"
5 May
Special Big Game Seasons
12 Dec.
2
3
A Business View of Wildlife
Conservation
J F. Bell 9 Sept.
Angling Regulations, 1948..R. C. Holloway 2 Feb.
Aquatic Weed Problem
in Oregon
W. E. Pitney 1 Jan.
Clackamas River Experimental
Area
C J. Campbell 4 April
"Crimes Against Public Policy"
10 Oct.
Game Damage in Oregon
A F. Hamer 3 March
Game Division Program...P. W. Schneider 4 May
6 June
Game Outlook, 1948
Mace and McKean 8 Aug.
Malheur County Pheasant
Facts
A. S. Einarsen 6 June
Opportunities for Sportsmen's
Groups
I N. Gabrielson 7 July
Prescription for Wildlife ...I. N. Gabrielson 3 March
Reclamation Versus
Conservation
I. N. Gabrielson 10 Oct.
The Coast Cutthroat Trout...F. H. Sumner 12 Dec.
The Fox-Pheasant
Problem
Max J. Wilcomb 11 Nov.
Umpqua River Study
Continued
H R. Newcomb 9 Sept.
6
1
1
1
4
1
1
5
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
FEDERAL AID
Federal Aid Wildlife Funds
Apportioned to States
Game Division Program...P. W. Schneider
Waterfowl Hearing Held in Seattle
Waterfowl Management,
Coordinated Program for
11
6
5
Nov.
June
May
4
5
1
3
March
1
8
9
Aug.
Sept.
3
2
5
May
2
1
6
7
Jan.
June
July
1
8
1
2
4
1
1
5
2
2
3
2
5
2
4
3
FIREARMS
Future Gun Regulations
Gun Regulations for Game Hunters
FISHERIES
Anglers Warned About Tick Season
Aquatic Weed Problem in
Oregon.
W. E. Pitney
Bass, A Smallmouth from the Snake
Battle for Rogue Underway
FISHERIES
FISHERIES
(Continued)
No. Month
June
5 May
4 April
2
Sauvies Island Fish Salvage
Sand Creek Projects, 1946-1947
5
1
Seasons
Sept.
March
2 Feb.
2
2
5
2
6
Feb.
9
3
6
June
11
12
Nov.
Dec
1
2
1
2
$23 Million
11
3
7
5
Nov.
March
July
May
2
5
1
2
2
3
8
Hatcheries
Contracts for Hatchery
Improvements Awarded
Hatchery Dam Washed Out
New Wizard Falls Trout
Hatchery Activated .
Progress Report on Wizard Falls
Hybrid Trout from Fish Lake
In the Light of the Moon
Lake Fertilization Program Started
Aug.
3 March
8
7
3
6
4
July
11
Nov.
March
June
April
2
3
2
4
7
3
8
Liberations
First Fish Released from Wizard Falls ... 9 Sept.
Fish Liberation Equipment in
Constant Use
6 June
Fish Liberation Trucks Have Been Busy 7 July
Fish Planting Boat Used
5 May
Fish Planting by Pack Strings
8 Aug.
High Lakes Stocked by Packstring
and Plane
9 Sept.
Marking of 50,000 Fish
2 Feb.
5 May
Marked Trout Planted in McKenzie
Mercer and Sutton Lakes Receive
Tagged Fish
5 May
South Twin Lake Planted
12 Dec.
South Twin Lake Receives Fish
6 June
Spring Trout Liberations
4 April
Trout Liberations, 1947.
1 Jan.
Trout Liberations Completed for 1948
12 Dec.
Trout Liberations in Clackamas River
8 Aug.
120 Tons Fish Released
1 Jan.
2
2
3
2
5
2
3
5
2
3
3
6
3
3
1
12
3
1
5
5
7
Dec.
1
March
Jan.
7
2
May
May
July
2
3
2
Regulations
Angling Regulations
Angling Synopsis May Be Obtained
1948 Angling Regulations
1949 Angling Regulations Hearing
Set for January
Rogue, Battle for
Rogue River Hearing
Crew Salvages More Than 600
Rainbow Trout
2
Oct.
Feb.
11 Nov.
Closure of Coastal Trout Season
Coastal Waters Closed March and April.. 3 March
5 May
Eastern Oregon Lake Season Open
6 June
June 15 Marks Opening of Trout Season
4 April
Trout Season Opens May 1
Winter Steelhead Season on Umpqua .... 5 May
5 May
Smelt Run, Sandy River
3
3
2
7
5
2
1
4
5
1
3
2
11
Eastern Brook Spawning Operations ....
Eggtaking Operations Late Start
Spawning at Crane Prairie
Spawning Operations Hampered by
Late Spring
12
Dec.
2
April
8
2
7
4
July
8
4
6
Aug.
April
6
7
June
July
12
Dec.
2
7
1
8
Aug.
3
7 July
Reservoir .
5 May
Two New Trout Lakes in the Offing
Umpqua River Study
H. R. Newcomb 9 Sept.
Continued
6 June
Weather Against Fishermen
1 Jan.
Whitefish Trapped
4 April
Willamette Valley Project Report
4
2
Spiny-Rayed Fish, Intensive Work Begun on
Tag, First Angler Turns In
Tagged Fish Watched by Needy Rod
and Gun Club
Tagged Trout Recovered
The Coast Cutthroat Trout
Trash Fish Control
Roach Control in Diamond Lake
Trash Fish Killed at Fern Ridge
June
2
2
2
1
2
2
6
2
Meetings
Angling Hearing
Fish Staff Conference Held
Joint Fisheries Meeting
Pacific Fisheries Biologist
Annual Meeting
No Live Bait! No Chumming'
Pennsylvania Trout Rather Costly
10
Spawning
Critical Shortages of Fresh Meat
4 April
Game Commission Goes Far for Food
11 Nov.
Fishing Stress Heavy in Cascade Lakes.... 8 Aug.
Floods Affect Fish and Game Operations ..
Fresh Water Anglers Spend Nearly
Page
Salvage
Fish Food
Fish Tag Return
Fish Tanks Built
No. Month
Page
Census
Creel Census by Sportsmen
East and Paulina Lake Creel Census
Ten Mile Lake Creel Census
Clackamas River Experimental Area
Cutthroat 7.75 Inches Long Caught
on Nestucca
Do Small Fish Survive 7
East Coast Ports Land 300 Million Lbs. Fish
First Angler Turns in Tag
Fisheries Director Resigns
Fisheries Research Tool
(Continued)
Jan.
March
2
2
Feb.
1
Nov.
7
4
July
2
1
April
4
11
Nov.
2
FOREIGN STATES
California Legislature Appropriates
$9 Million
Pennsylvania Game Director Retires
Pennsylvania Trout Costly
2
9
7
Feb.
Sept.
July
FURBEARERS
11 Nov.
Beaver Livetrapping
Beaver, Livetrapping and Transplanting... 7 July
2 Feb.
Beaver Sale Held
5 May
Beaver, Second Sale
6 June
Beaver, Tags Ordered for Marking
6 June
Beaver Trappers Assigned to Trap Foxes
7 July
Fur Catch Report
7 July
Fur Catch, 1947-48
7 July
Male Opossum Killed
3 March
Trapping Season Closes
11 Nov.
Trapping Season Opens
1 Jan.
White Muskrat Taken
2
2
2
3
2
3
2
2
2
4
4
2
7
5
GAME FARMS
Climatic Conditions Rough on Pheasants ...
Commission's Expansion Program
Underway
Conference for Game Farm Superintendents
Deer Reared at Game Farms Released
Fences Near Completion at Hermiston
Game Farm
Game Farms Rear Fawns Picked up
by Public
Game Refuge Recently Established
in Sherman County
Pheasant Field-Rearing Projects Underway
Pheasant Hen Protection Urged
Pheasant Liberations Completed
Pheasant Research Project
July
2
April
Feb.
2
Dec.
2
March
2
10
Oct.
2
1
8
Jan.
2
12
Dec.
7
4
2
12
3
Aug.
10 Oct.
9 Sept.
2
3
1
5
8
PUBLIC SHOOTING GROUNDS
MEETINGS
No. Month
Angling Hearing
Angling Hearing set for January
Commission
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
Conserve Cover Conference
Fisheries Staff Conference Held
Game Staff Hold Annual Meeting
Hunting Regulations Hearing
Hunting Regulations
International Fish & Game
Association Meet
Joint Fisheries Meeting Held,
Wash.-Ore.-Idaho
Pacific Fisheries Biologists
Rogue River Hearing
Waterfowl Hearing Held in Seattle
Western Association of Game & Fish
Commissioners, Conference
MISCELLANEOUS
Attention Deer Hunters!
Care of Game Animals
Conservation Education Annual
Award Announced
Conservation Pledge
"Crimes Against Public Policy"
Game Code Arrests Increase
Game License Sales
Hunting Accidents in 1947
Index to Volume II (1947) Now Available..
National Wildlife Restoration Week
March 21-27
Oregon Hunter's Guide Now Available
Regulations for Guides Adopted
Rogue, Battle for Underway
Rogue River Hearing
Starlings Observed Near Burns
12
11
1
2
3
Jan.
Feb.
March
4 April
5 May
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
6
3
7
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
June
March
July
June
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
7
2
5 May
11
Nov.
5
1
Jan.
2
5 May
4 April
5 May
7
9
9
July
Sept.
Sept.
Feb.
Feb.
10 Oct.
4 April
9 Sept.
2
2
1
Jan.
5 May
2
9
2
7
Feb.
Sept.
Feb.
July
April
Feb.
Sept.
Oct.
April
Dec.
6
June
11
Nov.
1
3
Jan.
March
2
4
1
7
3
3
3
2
4
4
8
4
2
8
2
2
1
4
2
8
2
6
3
1
3
2
PREDATORS
Aerial Coyote Hunting
1 Jan.
Aerial Coyote Hunting Continued
3 March
Cougars Bagged in Metolius Area
2 Feb.
Crows Blasted in Malheur County
3 March
Fox-Pheasant Study to be Continued
7 July
Game Division Program...P. W. Schneider 6 June
Live Cougar Kittens Asked for by Zoo
11 Nov.
Predator Bounties Paid
11 Nov.
Predator Control
1 Jan.
Predatory Animal Hunters
Account for 2,281
12 Dec.
Stealing of Traps Curtails Predator
Control Program
9 Sept.
The Fox-Pheasant Problem. Max J. Wilcomb 12 Nov.
Chewaucan Marsh Set for 1948
Improvement Work Set for Summer Lake ..
Malheur Public Shooting Ground
Public Shooting Grounds
Sauvies Island to Provide Another
Shooting Ground
Summer Lake Improvements
Waterfowl Season, 1948
2
2
1
5
6
4
2
Summary of 1947 License Sales by County.. 9
Unlawful to Disguise Game Birds
10
Willamette Valley Project Report
4
Why Increase the License Fees 9
12
Why Special Seasons 9
1948 Conservation Education Awards
1948 Game Licenses Appear In New Form
1948 Synopsis of Angling Regulations
Dec.
Nov.
Page
8
2
3
2
2
5
2
5
6
8
2
1
No. Month
7 July
7
July
11
12
Nov.
Dec.
4
12
10
Page
3
2
4
5
April
5
Dec.
Oct.
4
3
REGULATIONS AND SEASONS
Angling
12
Angling Hearing Next Month
2
1948 Angling Regulations
1949 Angling Regulations set for January 11
1948 Synopsis Angling Regulations
3
Coastal Waters Closed March and April.. 3
Eastern Oregon Lake Season Open
5
Trout Season Opens May 1
4
Winter Steelhead Season on Umpqua .... 5
Hunting
Archery Season Results
12
Elk Season Opens.
10
Hunter's Guide Now Available
9
Hunting Regulation Hearing
6
Hunting Regulations to be Considered
in July
5
Migratory Game Bird Rules for 1948
9
Special Big Game Seasons
12
Special Tag Drawings
10
1947 Elk Seasons
1
1948 Hunting Regulations
8
1948 Waterfowl Season
10
Dec.
1
Feb.
1
Nov.
2
March
March
May
April
May
2
Dec.
Oct.
Sept.
3
May
Sept.
5
1
3
June
Dec.
Oct.
Jan.
Aug.
Oct.
7
5
1
4
3
2
1
8
4
4
3
Miscellaneous
Commission Considers Gun Regulations .. 8 Aug.
"Crimes Against Public Policy"
10 Oct.
Regulations for Guides Adopted
2 Feb.
Tagging Regulations
9 Sept.
Why Special Seasons'
6 June
Trapping
Trapping Season Closes
3 March
Trapping Seasons Opens This Month
11 Nov.
3
4
2
3
1
7
5
STATE POLICE
Deer Spotlighting Expensive
Game Code Arrests Increase
Highway Shooting Unlawful
State Police Officers Make Arrests
April
April
March
Jan.
4
April
Oct.
7
July
2
2
2
5
May
1
1
7
2
3
6
6
Jan.
July
2
Feb.
March
8
8
2
7
July
2
Aug.
Oct.
9 Sept.
3
4
4
3
1
4
8
2
UPLAND GAME
Annual Statewide Census Completed
Care of Game Birds
Fox-Pheasant, Resume of Study
Game Division Program...P. W. Schneider
Game Refuge Recently Established
for Game Birds
Habitat Development Program Expanded
Highway Mortality of Game
Highway Shooting Unlawful
Loss of Nests by Predation
Loss of Nests Measured by District Agents
Pheasants
Climatic Conditions Rough
Field-Rearing Projects Underway
Hen Protection Urged
Liberations Completed
Living Fences Come to Oregon
Malheur County Pheasant
Facts
A. S. Einarsen
Research Project
Sage Grouse Bulletin
The Fox-Pheasant Problem . Max J. Wilcomb
1948 Game Outlook
Mace and McKean
4
10
June
June
8
10
3
2
12
Dec.
1
5
1
6
June
1
12
Dec.
July
8
7
11
8
Nov.
Aug.
2
1
1
U. S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Conserve Cover Conference
Federal Aid Wildlife Funds Apportioned
No. Month
6 June
to States
11 Nov.
Fisheries Director Accepts Federal Position 11 Nov.
Stealing of Traps Curtails Service
Predator Control
9 Sept.
ILLUSTRATIONS
3
4
1
2
1
2
5
4
1
5
4
1
2
1
3
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Big Game
12
Dec.
1
8
Jan.
Aug.
Intensive Agriculture on Lands Adjacent
to Deer Habitat
3 March
Mountain Goat and Its Kid
5 May
One-Day Old Mule Deer Fawn is Tagged 5 May
Panels Protect Haystacks from
Elk Damage
3 March
Tails of the Three Kinds of Oregon Deer 9 Sept.
Cartoons Ding Darling
How Man Does Improve on Nature
How Rich Will we be When we Have
Converted Forests ?
If We Treated Our Homes As We
Do Our Woods
No Wonder It Costs Us More To
Live These Days
2
5
1
1
4
6
6
6
3
March
3
7
July
5
10
Oct.
7
2
Feb.
5
1
Time to Take an Inventory of Our Pantry 9 Sept.
What Man Does to One of the Most
Beautiful Gifts of Nature, the River
11 Nov.
What Nature Will Do If Given a Chance 8 Aug.
4
5
Fisheries
Above the Oak Grove Fork on the
Clackamas River
4
Anglers Being Checked Out of Study Area 4
Clackamas River Rainbow Trout
4
Cliffs Along North Fork of the John Day 5
Downstream Migrant Escapement
(Graph)
2
Fishing in Deschutes River
2
Sand Creek Cutthroat
12
Sand Creek Steelhead
12
Sand Creek Weir Looking Upstream
12
Scale from Female Cutthroat Trout
12
Smelt Fishing on Sandy River
5
Fishways and Screens
Keasy Dam Opened
Man-Made Obstacle Removed on
Deadman Creek
New Fish Ladder at Dam on
Calapooya Creek
April
April
April
1
7
May
1
Feb.
Feb.
4
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
6
7
May
,
1
1
6
5
3
March
7
9
Sept.
7
9
Sept.
4
Page
Hatcheries
Gate Creek Ponds
6
June
3
Eggtaking Crew
Rearing Pond at Rock Creek Hatchery
Wizard Falls Hatchery (7 cuts)
8
9
3
Aug.
Sept.
March
2
7
9
Sept.
7
9
1
July
Jan.
9
Sept.
1
5
1
5
10
Oct.
3
Hauling Supplies Over Snow for
Liberations
Loading the Cans for Packing by Mules
Coordinated Program for Waterfowl
Management
3 March
Development of Camas Swale
2 Feb.
Game Division Program ....P. W. Schneider 6 June
Malheur Public Shooting Ground
11 Nov.
Migratory Game Bird Rules for 1948
9 Sept.
Public Shooting Grounds
12 Dec.
Waterfowl Bands Return Requested
11 Nov.
Waterfowl Hearing Held in Seattle
5 May
1947 Sale of "Duck" Stamps
11 Nov.
1948 Game Outlook
Mace and McKean 8 Aug.
1948 Waterfowl Season
10 Oct.
Doe Deer
Herd of Roosevelt Elk
No. Month
Page
WATERFOWL
Blacktail Deer Being Released
(Continued)
McKenzie Fish Planting Boat (3 cuts)
Main Rogue River in Region of
Proposed Copper Canyon
Measuring Fish for Pack Cans
Releasing Trout in Metolius River
Result of Earlier Plants in Rigdon Lake
4
5 May
Sept.
Salvage
Fish Salvage Crew at Work on
Sauvies Island
Furbearers
Beaver Dams Build Up the Water Supply
Beaver Trapping (4 cuts)
Transplanting Beaver to Prepared Site
6
June
5
11
Nov.
June
3
6
Predators
Bobcat and One of Its Victims
3 March
Cougar Killed by Hunters in
Metolius Area
2 Feb.
Dead Crows in Trees Along Snake River 6 June
Gray Fox
11 Nov.
Gray Fox Taken by Trapping
11 Nov.
Magpies in Trap near Nyssa
6 June
Map of Cooperative Fox Study Areas
11 Nov.
5
8
3
6
7
1
6
6
Public Shooting Grounds
Chart of Waterfowl Population and
Hunting Pressure
Check of Waterfowl Killed at
Summer Lake
Sketch of Sauvies Island
Summer Lake Improvements (4 cuts)
Waterfowl Hunters Check in at
Summer Lake
12
Dec.
5
12
Dec.
5
4
April
5
12
Dec.
4
12
Dec.
5
8
Aug.
Oct.
3
5 May
5 May
7
June
1
Oct.
4
6
Upland Game
Pheasant Rearing Project at Culver
Protect Pheasant Hens
Sage Grouse are Released in
New Location
Trapping Pheasants for Release from
the Open Field
View of Ontario Game Farm and
Surrounding Territory
10
6
1
Miscellaneous
Abstract of Game Laws
Bitterbrush Study Plot
10
5 May
Deer Hunters, Have You Mailed in
Your Report ?
11 Nov.
1 Jan.
Deer Tag and Report Cards
Deer Tag Report Card
9 Sept.
Density of Weeds Before and After Tests 1 Jan.
Flash Flood Washes Out
Wallowa Fish Weir
7 July
Floods at Sauvies Island
7 July
Hunter's License No. 10 Issued in 1905
10 Oct.
Hybrid Trout Caught in Fish Lake
6 June
New Deer Tag
6 June
Total Number of Hunting and Angling
License Holders
10 Oct.
Trout Minimum Length Limit
Regulations (Map)
4 April
Watersheds of Oregon (Map)
1 Jan.
Weed Control (2 cuts)
7 July
8
3
3
7
3
3
5
7
4
5
3
6
7