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Show FISH PLANTED IN j STREAMS OF IDAHO Extensive pl.ins are being made fo; the completion of heavier stocking of the streams and lakes in the Red fish '' like country in the Sawtooth forest district of Idaho, according to S B. Locke, forest examiner In charge ot fish and game of the forest service. District 4 The game department of the Wood-rlver Wood-rlver sportsmen's organisation is assisting as-sisting in this work. Mr. Jxcke said, h planting several varieties of fish in the ponds, lakes and streams above the numerous large falls in the district, dis-trict, which are now barren of fish Im life On a recent trip to Fish lake. In southern Utah, Mr. Iocke made a careful study of the fish life and sources of food in the lake, and se-. se-. urfcd a large supply of deep water vegetation, an indirect source of food lor fish The collection was transplanted trans-planted In lakes of the Sawtooth for-Lfl for-Lfl est. Among the varieties of fish planted were eastern brook trout. rainbow trout and salmon trout b In other forest districts of Idaho that have been visited by hea-vv rains v Ithln the lost ten days, Mr Ixn k. staled that the dry spell In the forests for-ests on the Sawtooth range for the remainder of the summer has passed |