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Show I THE CITIZEN IN THE WILD WOODS You have all heard of the Jackson - l P Lake. This is a fishing paradise in the upper basin of the Jackson Hole, near Moran, and many Salt Lakers spend their summer vacations there, fishing and hunting. This cold water lake, and now big storage reservoir This elk no doubt was caught in a big snow drift, run down by wolves that devoured the flesh and left the bones. When the snows melted, the bones found a natural resting place high in the branches, about the height of the snow when the elk gave its last gasp. Such scenes are frequently encountered in that country. 11 the Strawberry next spring. There is a large supply of brown trout in the hatcheries, and these will be planted in the lower streams where they appear to do the best. The feeding of so large a number of trout is becoming quite a problem, and Madsen believes that a cold storage plant would be a valuable adjunct to the industry. Meat could then be stored and kept and shipped a mo- fallen. Utah County is in good condi- -. tion, with little snow. A severe winter does more harm to exterminate the birds than do the hunters during the short open hunting seasons. If you know where there are any birds, take out some wheat and feed them. It means a bigger bag of game during the open season. MILLIONS OF TROUT ARE READY FOR STREAMS ments notice. It is impossible to reach the headwaters of our mountain streams during the winter months and this hind- According to Dave Madsen, state fish and game commissioner, the state has never been in such splendid condition to plant fish as it will be the coming year. With eight hatcheries and 130 rearing ponds, the department is not only prepared to handle more fish than ever, but it also has the fish to handle and over 10,000,-00- 0 fry will be planted the coming year. The fish will range in length for the farmers along the Snake River valley, teems with native, rainbow and mackinaw trout, some of the fish caught having weighed more than twenty-fiv- e pounds. Fart of the lake is shown in the picture herewith. This lake is closed to the sportsman in the winter. Deep snows prevent winter travel except by skiis. The picture of the cabin shows the summer resort of Roderick McKenzie, and which cabin is built on the very SNOW FATAL TO BIRDS So far, our game . birds, the quail and pheasants, have fared very well during the present winter. But what will the heavy snow of last Wednesday and other snows yet to come, do to these game birds that live exclusively on the farm lands? The ground is now thoroughly covered with snow and a few real cold and zero days may play havoc semi-domest- ic from about two inches to five and seven, and with such a big supply dumped into the streams and lakes there should be a distinct increase for the angler. From June 20, 1926, to November of 1927, the department planted fish in the state. One and a half million chinook salmon eggs are now in our hatcheries and the hatched fish will, be planted the coming summer. This fish appears to do very well in our lakes and they provide good sport catching them. The salmon grow very fast and readily take the fly and spinner, and a seven or eight pound salmon will give the sportsman all he cares to handle on light tackle. The department took about 7,000,-00- 0 brook trout eggs at Fish Lake, and expects to take the same number next year. From 7 to 10 million native trout eggs will be taken from 11,-590,0- edge of the Jackson 0 Lake, snugly nestled amidst the pines and quacken asps. The picture was taken after a heavy snow fall. During the winter this cabin is entirely covered or rather hurried in the deep snow. In some parts the snow falls to a depth of twenty to thirty feet. A tragedy of the winter aiid deep snows is shown in the picture herewith that shows the skeleton of an elk hanging in the branches of a quacken asp. ers the department of releasing much of the over crowded hatcheries when they are most needed. Madsen has imported from Idaho 35,000 yellow perch which were planted in Utah and Bear Lakes. This fish ought to do well in our waters. It is a game fish and will take any kind of bait at any time of the year. among the birds and cause great mor- tality among them. Under such conditions it is up to the people to render their services to keep the birds alive. If they can food they will survive the coldest of weather, but when hungry they easily succumb to the cold nights by freezing to death. The game wardens have done some feeding in Salt Lake and Davis Counties where the heaviest snows have secure 00 SAVE THE DUCKS Conservation leaders throughout the west have responded enthusiastically to the announcement of the Izaak Walton League that it will wage war to save the ducks of the intermountain region from the alkali poisoning that has been taking a toll of millions of ducks annually, according to advice from the National Headquarters of the League today. We are vitally interested in this said proposition here in Montana, Thomas N. Marlowe, chairman of the game and fish commission of that state, and not only do we want to lend our moral support, but we want to ' get in and do some of the real work. I am sure we can get all of our members in Congress such a proposition. The sportsmen of America should unite with all the conservation organ-- |