OREGON STATE
GAME COMMISSION
ULLETIN
JUNE 1960
BGAtOREGON
STA
TE
GAME COMMISSION
ULLETIN
APRIL MEETING OF THE
GAME COMMISSION
At its meeting on April 22, the Game
Commission acted upon the following
matters:
NEZ PERCE PROJECT. Decided to
file a petition to intervene in the applica-
tion of the Washington Power Supply
Company to the Federal Power Commis-
sion for permit to construct the Nez
JUNE, 1960
Perce Dam.
SOUTH JETTY EASEMENT. Authorized staff to negotiate in regard to grant-
Number 6, Volume 15
Published Monthly by the
OREGON STATE GAME COMMISSION
1634 S.W. Alder StreetP. 0. Box 4136
Portland 8, Oregon
MIRIAM KAUTTU SUHL, Editor
H. C. SMITH, Staff Artist
MEMBERS OF COMMISSION
J. H. Van Winkle, Chairman
Rollin E. Bowles
Ralph T. Renner
Max Wilson
John P. Amacher
Oregon City
Portland
Lakeview
Joseph
Winchester
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
P. W. Schneider
C. B. Walsh
Director
Assistant Director
John McKean
Chief of Oper., Game Div.
C. J. Campbell _____ Chief of Oper., Fishery Div.
R. C. Holloway
Chief, Inf. and Educ.
H. J. Rayner
Chief, Research Division
W. D. DeCew
Controller
John B. Dimick __Chief, Supply and Property
William E. Pitney _ _ Chief, Basin Investigations
A. V. Meyers
Chief, Lands Section
George Kernan
Engineer
H. R. Newcomb
Personnel Officer
Roy C. Atchison
Attorney
REGIONAL SUPERVISORS
Leslie Zumwalt , Region I,
Route 1, Box 325, Corvallis
J. W. Vaughn, Region II _ Box 577, Roseburg
L. M. Mathisen, Region III Parrell Road, Bend
W. H. Brown, Region IV_ Box 742, La Grande
W. V. Masson, Region V
Box 8, Hines
Entered as second -class matter September 30,
1947, at the post office at Portland, Oregon,
under the act of August 24, 1912.
Please report promptly any change of address. Send in both the old and new address
with notice of change.
At the present time the Bulletin is circulated
free of charge to anyone forwarding a written
request.
the cover
Game agent Vern Maw putting a bell and
ear tags on one of the 59 deer trapped and
marked as part of the Silver Lake deer
study project in Lake County. Each deer
received three different colored plastic ear
tags and a metal bell on a plastic rope. The
marked deer will make it easier to study
the summer and winter migrations of the
herd.
(Photo by Rollie Rousseau)
BULLETIN
ing of a road easement to the successful
bidder for repair of the south jetty at
the mouth of the Columbia River for the
Corps of Engineers.
GAS AND OIL LEASE. Grant e d
Humble Oil Company a lease for subsur-
face drilling at the Summer Lake Management Area. It was made clear, however, that this was not to be construed
as establishing a general policy in regard
to gas and oil leases, and any applications
received for other areas would be considered on an individual basis.
BIG GAME RANGE FENCE. Authorized cooperating with the Forest Service
in construction of a boundary fence to
protect big game range in the Umatilla
Forest.
OXBOW PARK, SANDY RIVER.
Heard explanation of Multnomah County's plans for a park at the Oxbow area
along the Sandy River, including a request to obtain that part of the Game
Commission lands in that area not needed
for access purposes. The Commission
expressed general approval of the proposal and authorized staff to negotiate
an agreement for further consideration.
EULACHAN SOCIETY. Members of
the Eulachan Society appeared to request
that some program be worked out for
improvement of the Sandy River smelt
run. Staff was instructed to assemble
all available information on the Sandy
River as it relates to the present program, after which another conference
would be held to determine what should
be done.
ILLINOIS FALLS FISHWAY. Author-
ized a call for bids for construction of a
fishway across Illinois Falls.
HUNTER SAFETY
TRAINING PROGRAM
Instructors Approved
Month of April
93
Total to Date
1039
Students Trained
Month of April
718
Total to Date
3332
Firearms accidents reported 1960
Fatal
2
Nonfatal
2
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WESTERN ASSN. TO
MEET IN SALT LAKE
The Western Association of State
Game and Fish Commissioners will hold
its 40th annual conference at Salt Lake
City, Utah, on June 20, 21 and 22. Repre-
sentatives of the fish and game departments of the thirteen western states (including Alaska and Hawaii) and the province of British Columbia are expected to
be in attendance.
The 1960 big game regulations, established after press time for this issue, will
be summarized in the July Bulletin. For
information, however, on how to apply
for the various types of big game tags
to be issued, see pages 6 and 7.
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The fisheries division hopes to profit
by the training in skin and scuba diving
being taken by 14 biologists in their spare
time. Knowledge of skin diving techniques will be of help in certain phases
of fishery management work such as
lake surveys, chemical treatment of lakes,
and studies on fish behavior, mortality
and disease. Since the men are taking
basic training only, they could not take
the place of professionals if any heavy
or deep diving is required.
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Last season's beaver catch totalled
10,909, according to tally of trapping
report cards just finished. Since the season was re-opened in 1951, the annual
catch has fluctuated only slightly from a
high of 15,257 the first season to a low
of 9,786 in the 1958-59 season.
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Moorage operators on the Willamette
River below Oregon City recorded 612
chinooks caught in 5,724 boat trips during
the salmon season just passed. Aerial
counts of boats on the river indicated
that the large count of 1,413 boats occurred on Sunday, April 10.
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Eight Rocky Mountain goats were
recently observed by a Joseph pilot in
the Sacajawea and Matterhorn mountains
of the Wallowa area, indicating that the
small herd introduced in 1950 is main-
taining itself. Ten years ago six goats
were brought from Washington but one
died soon after release. With a nucleus
of only five animals, the herd has not
been able to increase much in numbers.
Each year, though, several goats have
been sighted, including two or three kids.
June, 1960
By Juanita Mahaffey*
WHEN
YOU BUY YOUR LICENSE
to hunt or fish you become a shareholder
in a mammoth operation costing, nation-
ally, upwards of $125 million a year.
Thirty-five million men and women in
1958 paid just short of $100 million for
these state licenses, exceeding all rec-
ords on the fishing side of the ledger.
Including license-exempt groups which
This article depicts the pollution
situation on a nation-wide basis but
is printed here because it represents
a major contemporary resource problem in our own state. For years Oregon has been fighting to control the
pollution problem through the Ore-
gon State Sanitary Authority. The
most states have, there are 30 million
Game Commission, interested in be-
fishermen and 20 million hunters in the
United States, according to a recent Gallup poll.
Migratory waterfowl hunters paid another $4.7 million in federal duck stamp
fees. In addition, the states received $21
the Authority. Our interest has been
further emphasized by the action of
million from excise taxes on sporting
arms and ammunition and fishing tackle
as federal aid in their wildlife and fish-
eries programs. In general, all these
moneys are used to pay for better hunting and fishing.
Blackest villain on the law-abiding
sportsmen's list is the poacherthe outof-season killer or the culprit who exceeds legal bag limits. For years he has
been the contemptible object of firey
jabs by sports writers, conservation cartoonists, and lecturers. The first game
laws were established to put the unethical game hog out of business.
It's anybody's guess how much our
country's wildlife diminished solely because of uncontrolled killing. Even the
much deplored overhunting of buffalo
only hastened what a changing environGAME BULLETIN
half of the state's fish and wildlife
resources, cooperates closely with
the last legislature providing for a
member of the Game Commission to
serve also as a member of the Sanitary Authority.
Close liaison has been maintained
as well with the U. S. Public Health
ment would have accomplished eventually. Game and fisheries management
today is based on maintenance of a
healthy natural environment for the
species.
IN THIS LIGHT THERE IS NOW A
POACHER in our midst whose destruction of fish and wildlife far outstrips that
of the early day market gunner or fish
dynamiter. Pollution is destroying or retarding fish and wildlife in quantities approaching those maintained by the $125
million invested by hunters and fishermen.
Commissioner A. J. Suomela of the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service puts it
this way: "Pollution of the rivers of the
United States continues to be one of the
Service, which is administering the
most critical problems affecting the production of game and food fishes. More-
federal grant program to help in
construction of sewage treatment
over, with the rapidly growing human
works by cities or other public agen-
population attended by intensification of
agriculture and industry, the utilization
of streams for various purposesincluding removal of waste materialswill con-
cies. The State Sanitary Authority
report shows that in the four fiscal
years since the program was enacted
in 1956, the state of Oregon received
a total of $2,617,250, but this
amount, while it helped, still was
inadequate. Much needs to be done
to keep Oregon's waters clean. P. W.
SCHNEIDER
Division of Water Supply and Pollution
Control, Bureau of State Services, Public
Health Service, U. S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare, Washington 25, D.C.
tinue to be a problem of greatest importance.
"Although complete statistics are not
available, it is considered that the
amount of fish and wildlife habitat rendered unproductive each year is greater
than that created by public agencies
carrying out programs of fish and wildlife restoration.
"Pollution may affect fish and wild(Continued on Page 8)
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FISHERY
AGENT
EQUIPMENT
Pictured at the right are some of the tools used
by Monty Montgomery, fishery agent for the Commission in the central Oregon area. It takes a pack
of equipment and supplies to keep track of what's
going on fishwise in Monty's vast domain. He cov-
ers all the country from the lower Deschutes to
the Willamette highway on the south and from the
summit of the Cascades to the Ochocos. The only
working hours Monty knows are from daylight to
dark and on beyond. Included in his district are
some of the finest fishing waters in the state and
it's his job to see that they remain so.
Not pictured here are such items as a planting
boat, chemical treatment barges, airplane, fish
planting truck, all used to provide improved
angling opportunities in central Oregon and elsewhere.
Also missing is fishing tackle which Monty
claims he has little time for nowadays.
FISHERY AGENT EQUIPMENT KEY
I. Trap net-used for obtaining spawners, population sampling,
and selective rough fish control.
2. Boat-14' aluminum hull.
3. Handyman jack-for getting out of mud holes!
30. Binoculars and case.
4. Life jacket.
5. Fire extinguisher.
6. Boat trailer.
7. Portable water pump and hose-used in tempering tank
loads of fish and for spraying chemicals in fish eradication.
8. Oars.
9. Fyke net-used in collecting downstream migrants in turbine
mortality studies.
10. Dip net-used in stocking fish from planting boat.
11. Portable pump-used to chemically treat small streams, potholes and lake shores.
12. Packboard.
13. Railroad iron anchors-used for setting trap
nets, seines,
holding boats, etc.
14. Portable fish shocker-for population studies and collection
of stranded fish in potholes.
15. Wooden barrel float marker-for fish nets.
16. Portable scales and water temperature thermometer.
17. Rubber boat and oars-for use in isolated lakes.
18. Snowshoes-for winter surveys.
19. Outboard motor.
20. Water current meter-for determining stream flow volume.
21. Two types of float markers-for set nets.
22. Hip boots.
23. Hand pump-for inflating rubber boat.
24. Skis.
25. Motion picture portable screen.
26. Gill net-for fish population studies.
27. Cow bell-used on pack stock.
28. Alforjas, pack sack or Paniards and horse pack saddle.
29. Power saw-for clearing roads and removal of log jams.
31. Tarpaulin.
32. Saddle.
33. Fish pack cans-for horse packing.
34. Signs of various types-used for posting streams and lakes.
35. Scuba diving gear-rubber suit, fins, mask, oxygen bottle,
lead weight belt, knife.
36. Tool box and miscellaneous small tools.
37. Kemmerer water sampler-obtaining water samples for
chemical analysis.
38. Oxygen cylinders-for use in airplane stocking.
39. Seine, small mesh-for collecting specimens.
40. Collection box-for salmon-steelhead punch cards.
41. Maps.
42. Camp gear-gas lantern, Coleman stove, grub box, tent, etc.
43. Waders.
44. Sleeping bag.
45. Panel truck.
46. Chemical testing kit and microscope.
47. Fish measuring board.
48. Live box.
49. Liquid rotenone-used for fish eradication.
50. Clip board-for recording biological data.
51. Sq. ft. fish food sampler.
52. Enamelware tray and small tools-for taking scales, etc.
53. 16 mm. movie projector.
54. Aluminum clip board-used in creel census work.
55. Shovel.
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BIG GAME PERMITS & CONTROLLED HUNT TAGS
WHY ALL THE FOOLING AROUND
WHAT IS A PERMIT?
A permit is a free document that authorizes use of
the general deer or elk tag for taking an antlerless
animal. It is valid only in the area and at the time
listed in the big game regulations.
with permits and special tags? Why not
just open the season for any kind of deer
or elk and control the harvest by length
of season? These are questions that will
arise in every community.
WHAT IS A CONTROLLED HUNT TAG?
A controlled hunt tag costs $5.00 and is required for
hunting in controlled deer season areas and antelope
After six years of experience with
uncontrolled either-sex deer seasons of
various lengths, the Game Commission
areas. A tag authorizes a person to hunt and take
one big game animal of a specified kind at a designated time and place.
learned that hunters don't necessarily
distribute themselves in proportion to
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
the abundance of game. Distance, accessibility, weather conditions, cover, and
many other factors influence a person's
choice of an area to hunt. This results in
Any resident licensed hunter may apply.
Nonresident hunters are not eligible to apply for
permits or controlled season tags.
an overharvest of game on areas that
are close to centers of population or
HOW TO APPLY?
First: Pick up a copy of the 1960 Big Game Regula-
tions at any license agency. These regulations
easily accessible by good roads and fail-
ure to harvest animals on distant or
will be available shortly after July 1.
Second: Study the regulations and decide for which
areas you wish to apply.
inaccessible ranges where a greater har-
vest may be essential from a manage-
Third: Fill out the proper application form and
ment standpoint.
mail to the Game Commission by the deadline
listed in the regulations.
From a recreational standpoint the
Commission believes that the liberty of
a person to hunt in an area of his choice
is a freedom that should be preserved as
long as possible. For this reason buck
deer and bull elk seasons with a minimum of area restrictions are provided.
Some control of the harvest of antler-
ELK PERMIT APPLICATION
Above is an application for a permit to hunt antlerless
elk on areas where permits are required. This application is
issued with the elk tag and has the same number. DON'T
LOSE IT. Duplicates will not be available.
Fill out the application according to the instructions.
less animals by geographical areas is
essential if the big game herds are to be
maintained at optimum levels and produce maximum benefits for the people
of Oregon. For this reason permits and
controlled season tags are essential.
Controlled season tags are not issued
for elk because the supply of that species
is far less than the demand. The Commission does not believe that any person
should have the privilege of taking more
than one elk.
The fact that Oregon hunters reported taking 146,000 deer and 9,000 elk last
year is evidence that the unit management program is producing benefits for
the people of Oregon.
Print the name of the area chosen as listed in the
egulations.
ign the application.
Print your name and address on the reverse side.
Place in an envelope and mail to: Game Division, P.O.
Box 4136, Portland 8, Oregon.
If individuals wish to apply as a party, up to four applications may be stapled together. This permits the group to
be considered together in the drawing but has no advantages
otherwise.
The area chosen must be identical on each application
in a party and the "Party" box must be checked.
If the application is successful in the drawing, the name
of the area will be stamped in the space shown above and
returned as a valid permit. The official stamp marks the
permit for use only in the area designated.
ELK PERMI
PLICATION
PARTY
No.
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big game management un
Numbers of permits, descriptio
ALID ONLY FOR THE UNIT CHOICE
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MANAGEMENT
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PLEASE PRINT
Only Oregon residents may apply.
The n
of the unit preferred shall be
designateame d space.
5.
YOUR
NAM
Print your name and address on the re
application and mail in an envelope to thvee Game D
P. O. Box i4136. Portland 8. Oregon.
6. A party of not to exceed 4 may staple their individual
applications together and mail in one envelope. Choices
must be identical
party applications and the -Part,'
ADDRESS
box must be checkedon
7.
This application becomes a valid permit when choice of
unit is stamped on reverse side. The permit is only valid
for use in the one unit designated and it must be accom-
8.
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panied by a valid elk tag.
CITY
SIGNATURE OF
LICENSE
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MANAGEMENT UNIT PERMIT
DEER PERMIT APPLICATION
PARTY
No.
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INSTRUCTIONS
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ADDRESS
UNIT OF THIRD CHOICE
CITY
SIGNATURE OF
LICENSE
DEER PERMIT APPLICATION
Above is a sample application for a permit to hunt antleress deer on a management unit. This application is issued
with the general deer tag and has the same number. DON'T
LOSE IT. Duplicates will not be available.
Fill out the application according to the instructions.
/
STATE
Schedule of Closing Dates
and Drawings for Big Game
Tags and Permits
Antelope Tags:
Closing date for applications, 5 p.m.,
July 18
Public drawing, 10 a.m., July 25
Controlled Deer Season Tags:
Closing date, 5 p.m., August 1
Public drawing, 10 a.m., August 8
Deer Permits:
Closing date, 5 p.m., August 8
Public drawing, 10 a.m., August 15
Elk Permits:
Closing date, 5 p.m., August 29
Public drawing, 10 a.m., Sept. 7
Apply for more than one unit in case the first choice is
unsuccessful in the drawing. Please use the unit name listed
in the regulations.
Sign the application.
Print your name and address on the reverse side.
Place in an envelope and mail to: Game Division, P.O.
Box 4136, Portland 8, Oregon.
If individuals wish to apply as a party, up to four applications may be stapled together. This permits the group to
be considered together in the drawing but has no advantages
otherwise.
All choices must be identical on each application in a
party and the "Party" box must be checked.
If the application is successful in the drawing, the choice
selected will be stamped in the space shown above and re-
turned as a valid permit. The official stamp marks the
permit for use only in the unit designated.
CONTROLLED HUNT TAG
APPLICATION
Above is a sample application for a controlled
hunt tag for controlled deer seasons and antelope
areas. These applications will be available at
license agencies.
Apply for not more than one controlled deer
season.
CONTROLLED HUNT APPLICATION
APPLICATI
IS
HEREBY MADE
FOR
DRAWING
( SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON REVERSE SIDE )
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PLEASE PR/NT
INITIALS
LAST NAME
CITY a STATE
tructions.
HUNTING LI
ADDRESS
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SIGNATURE
Use a separate application to apply for one
antelope area if you did not receive an antelope
tag during the past two years.
Fill out the application according to the in-
F
ELK TAG NO.
List the species (either deer or antelope) in
t he space provided.
Print the name of the area applied for in the
INITIALS
LAST NAME
SIGNATURE
ADDRESS
HUNTING LICENSE NO.
CITY a STATE
ELK TAG NO.
pace provided.
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INITIALS
LAST NAME
CITY *STATE
SIGNATURE
INITIALS
LAST NAME
ADDRESS
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ELK TAG NO.
DRAWING NO.
List the hunting license number of each appliant. Elk tag numbers are not necessary.
ELK TAG NO.
HUNTING LICENSE NO.
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CITY S STATE
SIGNATURE
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ame
HUNTING LICENSE NO.
ADDRESS
Up to four individuals may apply on a single
pplication. Each applicant must sign his own
A $5.00 fee for each applicant must accompany
t he application. Refunds for unsuccessful appli( ants will be made to the first individual listed
1
n total for the party.
Mail the completed application UNFOLDED
to: Game Division, P. . Box 4136, Portland 8,
Oregon.
Controlled hunt tags will be mailed to successful applicants shortly after the drawing.
GAME BULLETIN
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Pollution
(Continued from Page 3)
life adversely in a direct way or it may
make environments untenable through
harmful effects on food organisms, plant
cover, or other physical features present.
In addition, the recreational enjoyment
of fish and wildlife resources may be
seriously impaired or eliminated in polluted situations."
MOST CONSERVATION MEASURES
DEVELOPED, unfortunately, are like
"locking the barn door after the horse
was stolen." The tragic dustbowl years
of the early 1930's frightened a nation
into soil-saving action. At the same time
North America's wild duck populations
dived to a perilously low figure before
breeding-ground restoration was inaugurated. U. S. timber lands were ruthlessly cut and burned over before selective harvest, fire prevention and replanting combined to save our forests.
But we still abuse and waste a most
vital resource, water. Experiments with
cloud seeding, salt water conversion, and
evaporation control seek to increase
available supplies of usable water. Yet
we are alarmingly tardy in full implementation of the most economically feas-
ible method to ensure water supplies
treating our wastes to control pollution.
As a result, our fish and wildlife are
drastically reduced, with an accompany-
ing shrinkage of hunting and fishing
areas. With these sports increasing in
an Iowa Conservation Commission officer in this manner: ". . . the stream
could be smelled long distances . . .
patches of floating grease solid enough
for crows to ride on it in the current
catfish inedible because of a kerosene-like taste." Some 1.5 million people
depend upon the Missouri River for their
water supply.
.
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IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
THE COLUMBIA RIVER is afflicted
with Sphaerotilus, a slimy filamentous
growth nurtured by pulp and paper
manufacturing wastes. To fishermen who
depend upon the Columbia for their
livelihoods, Sphaerotilus is a source of
increasing economic loss. Clumps of the
slime catch on fishermen's nets, clog and
sink them. The slimes have a rapid deterioration effect. Sport fishermen, too,
are adversely affected.
One advance in our water conservation approach is noteworthy. We have
learned that all uses and users of water
must be considered, whereas in former
years pollution was regarded almost
wholly as a public health concern. The
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
ever,
much
higher levels must be
reached if water pollution control is to
be brought into balance with new pollution resulting from population growth
and industrial expansion. To catch up by
1965, municipalities should spend about
$575 million per year. While needs in
industry are not as completely indexed,
the Public Health Service believes at
least an equal expenditure for industrial
waste treatment facilities will be required.
No longer can we afford the type of
pollution abatement which "locks the
barn door after the horse is stolen." The
problem calls for prevention rather than
cure insofar as new pollution is
con-
cerned. States seeking new industry, for
example, should make sure the incoming
industry guarantees to maintain water
quality before operating permits are issued. Interagency planning between state
health departments, conservation depart-
ments, water resources boards, and industrial relations boards can strengthen
the state vanguard against polluted
waters.
POLLUTION IS AN UGLY, CREEP-
specifies "the development of comprehensive programs with due regard given
to improvements which are necessary to
conserve waters for public water supplies, propagation of fish and aquatic
life and wildlife, recreational purposes,
and agricultural, industrial, and other
ING MENACE which often does not
make itself immediately evident. Biological changes resulting from this in-
legitimate uses."
restore natural beauty and productivity,
RESEARCH, A NETWORK OF
vader in lake, stream, or estuary may be
a long time developing. But once a
stream or other surface water dies, an
equally long time may be required to
even after waste treatment gets under
popularity and occupying prominent
places in the over-all recreation needs of
STREAM SAMPLING stations, technical
way.
a growing population, can we afford lax
attitudes toward this waster, pollution?
The Public Health Service points out
that the country as a whole is 30 years
behind with sewage and industrial waste
treatment construction as related to ex-
assistance, program grants, enforcement
in cases of interstate stream pollution,
and construction grants to cities for
The cost of complete sewage treatment in the average city is less than 25
cents per person per month, according
to the Public Health Service. Yet there
are embraced in the Act. State appropriations for pollution control have in-
is often stout opposition to pollution con-
creased an aggregate 44 per cent as a
ways some who seek the cheap but short-
isting needs. While progress is being
made under the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (Public Law 660 passed by
Congress in 1956), the needs continue to
pyramid because of new pollution created
by the explosive population increase, an
unprecedented farm-to-city movement of
people, and mushrooming industrial expansion.
In the records of the Public Health
Service in interstate stream investigations the past two years there are graphic
descriptions of pollution problems in
some of our major rivers.
The Missouri River was described by
Oregon State Game
Commission. Bulletin
1634 S.W. ALDER STREET
building sewage treatment plantsall
result of the $3 million annual program
grants. Construction grants totaling $140
million for fiscal years 1957, 1958, and
1959 have resulted in some 1,500 new
sewage treatment plants completed or
under construction. Cities have put up
their own local funds in a ratio of better
than four-to-one in receiving this federal
aid. Conferences and hearings involving
eight major waterways, held under the
interstate enforcement function of Public Law 660, have resulted in agreements
trol laws and programs. There are al-
sighted way out, preferring to dump
their wastes into the nearest river rather
than pay the cost of treatment.
You, the fisherman and hunter, in-
vest $125 million a year in fish and
game. At the same time you sacrifice to
pollution game bags and fish creels potentially much larger than your present
field and stream "take home pay." Industrial and city, state, and federal gov-
for building remedial works to abate
ernment leaders need citizen-backing to
round out the job of pollution control.
Get in the fight for clean waters and, at
pollution that will cost over $400 million.
the same time, help yourself to better
Despite these important gains, how-
fishing and hunting!
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PORTLAND 8, OREGON
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