Kenneth G. Denman, Chairman Medford. Baker Don M. Mitchell. Klamath Falls ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

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2 Page 2 February, 1957 Those interested in obtaining the 1957 wildlife conservation stamps should write to the National Wildlife Federation, 232 Carroll Street Northwest, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D. C. Contributions received for the stamps help support the Federation activities. Wildlife homes are the subject of 12 of the 36 colored stamps in each sheet. The other 24 depict various kinds of birds, animals, fish and flowers. January and February are busy months for field agents who devote most of their time during this period to inventory conditions on the big game winter ranges. First, before the buck deer and bull elk lose their antlers, herds are classified as to sex and age to determine sex ratios and yearly production. Late in the winter when the animals concentrate on the open ranges, population trend counts are made to determine whether the herds are increasing or decreasing. Each year game agents cover about 7,000 miles of sample routes on the elk and deer ranges, mostly by ski or snowshoe, although jeeps, trucks, and planes are used when feasible. * * * Analysis of creel census figures during the past season reveals the following estimates for some of the more popular fishing waters. At East Lake, approximately 33,000 anglers caught 88,800 trout weighing 47,400 pounds. At Paulina Lake, 72,700 trout weighing 23,870 pounds were taken by approximately 21,500 anglers. An estimated 82,000 trout were taken on the McKenzie River by 32,200 anglers. At Clear Lake, about 7,700 anglers caught more than 18,000 fish. From Detroit Reservoir an estimated 64,787 anglers took approximately 89,406 trout. Oregon State Game Commission Bulletin VOLUME XII FEBRUARY, 1957 NUMBER 2 Published Monthly by the OREGON STATE GAME COMMISSION 1634 S.W. Alder StreetP. 0. Box 4136 Portland 8, Oregon MIRIAM KAUTTU, Editor H. C. SMITH, Staff Artist MEMBERS OF COMMISSION Kenneth G. Denman, Chairman Medford Delbert Gildersleeve Baker Don M. Mitchell Taft J. H. Van Winkle Oregon City Elmer H. Balsiger Klamath Falls ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF P. W. Schneider_ Director C. B. Walsh Assistant Director W. D. DeCew Controller H. R. Mangold Chief, Supply and Property Arthur Higgs Attorney C. J. Campbell Chief, Basin Investigations R. C. Holloway Chief, Info. and Educ. John McKean. Chief of Oper., Game Div. H. J. Rayner _Chief of Oper., Fishery Div. George Kernan Engineer REGIONAL SUPERVISORS Leslie Zumwalt, Region I, Route 1, Box 325, Corvallis J. W. Vaughn, Region II Box 977, Roseburg L. M. Mathisen, Region III_ 222 E. 3rd, Bend W. H. Brown, Region IV_ Box 742, La Grande W. C. Lightfoot, 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, 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. COVER Typical springtime scene on the Willamette River below Oregon City boat anglers trying their luck at chinook salmon fishing. (Photo by Ron Shay) JANUARY MEETING OF THE GAME COMMISSION At its meeting on January 11, the Game Commission elected as chairman Kenneth G. Denman, Medford attorney. He succeeds Don M. Mitchell of Taft, who served as chairman during In addition to holding the hearing on angling regulations, the Commission conducted the following routine business during the January meetings: March Meeting. Decided to meet on March 15 at Oregon State College at Corvallis. This is in accordance with the Commissions policy to hold a meeting there every other year for benefit of students of the Department of Fish and Game Management. Hunting Safety Program. Discussed the hunting safety program, including recommendations of the staff and those of Colonel Todd Sloan and Mr. Tat low. Capital Outlay. Bid of Everett Den Herder in the amount of $39,898 was accepted for construction of a pipeline at the Butte Falls hatchery. Expenditure of $625 was authorized for new furnace at Cedar Creek residence; $6,500 for development at Hermiston game farm; $2,560 for fencing and pumping at Klamath management area. Lands. Option exercised for purchase of Bay lay tract at Camas Swale management area for $1,000. Gifts of access easements at Forrest Pond and Pole Creek Reservoir accepted. Also accepted easement over Pennington land to Summer Lake management area. SOUTHEAST REGION HEADQUARTERS New building at Hines completed last fall to house headquarters of the Southeast Region. Besides office space, the building provides warehouse and garage facilities to store the varied equipment needed to carry on the fish and game operations for the region, which includes Lake, Harney, Malheur and portions of adjacent counties. In keeping with the policy to decentralize its activities and provide more efficient operation, the Game Commission has four other administrative regions: Northeast Region (LaGrande); Central Region (Bend); Southwest Region (Roseburg); and Northwest Region (Corvallis). In each region the fish and game management activities come under the direction of a supervisor.

3 By H. J. RAYNER, Chief, Fishery Operations IF there is a "finest fish in Oregon," the honor will fall on the summer steelhead or the spring chinook salmon. The steelhead devotee will concede that in the flavor of flesh, size, and in the strength of the initial powerful seizure,f the lure, the spring chinook wins hands down. In stamina under pressure of the rod the summer steelhead has an edge but probably because of the difference in tackle used. The heavy outfits used in subduing a chinook at the mouth of the Rogue is in sharp contrast to the light equipment used on summer steelhead on the Deschutes, Umpqua, Umatilla, or Rogue. The writer once hooked an eighteen-pound chinook on a fly rod in the ocean. A little over an hour later the fish was landed and an aching wrist was almost finished. It is not uncommon for a six to eight-pound Hood River summer steelhead to last one and onehalf hours on a four to six-pound leader. Both fish are always bright, clean, and prime in the spring. The spring chinook brings a higher price commercially than any other salmon or the steelhead in Oregon. Confusing indeed are the many local names for fishes the world over and here in the northwest, our salmon are no exception. In Washington, the chinook becomes the king and in British Columbia on the mainland, he is the spring no matter what time of the year he enters the river to spawn, while r".,across the Strait of Georgia on Vancouver Island at the mouth of the Campbell River, he is the tyee, an Indian word meaning chief. With Californians, the chinook is commonly termed the king or Sacramento salmon and in earlier days was the quinnat, a name which accompanied shipments of eggs to New Zealand where it persists today. In Oregon, the spring fish is often called the royal chinook because of its attributes. Oregonians like the sound of the name chinook. It is of local origin and as Lewis McArthur in his "Oregon Geographic Names" says, Some of the older names are much superior to the modern gutless versions. A German compiler, J. J. Walbaum, established the scientific name for the chinook in 1792 using the Russian vernacular term "tschawytscha." When the writer was in China, he was told by local Russians that the word meant chief. Thus we have the British Columbia Indians and the Russians using the same term. Generally speaking, the spring chinook enters the river and migrates upstream at any time during the first half of the year. For practical purposes it is distinct from the fall chinook even though the two are a single species. It differs from the fall race in time of migration, appearance, degree of maturity and usually in length of migration in the river. The habit of entering fresh water during the first half of the year forces upon the fish a series of environmental hazards and circumstances often foreign to those encountered by the fall run. The rivers are often at flood, the fish must travel extreme distances, and the hazards of spending their remaining days in fresh water are myriad. They may be isolated by desiccating waters, destroyed by flash floods, subjected to predatory action by animals, forced to leap again and again at impassable obstructions contributing to their death, held up in their migration schedule by lack of water resulting from excessive diversion by man, destroyed by the attacks of fungi, killed by bacteria in warm waters made so by man's activity in diverting or impounding water, delayed below dams because of inadequate water in and approaching fish ladders to the extent that spawning cannot take place, or ingloriously jerked from the spawning bed with a snatch hook by some poacher whose greedy desires seek the eggs of the fish for angling purposes and this latter fate after struggling hundreds of miles upstream. The Owyhee, Agency Valley, Unity, Thief Valley, and Warm Springs dams destroyed all spring chinook which spawned in the Owyhee, Malheur, Burnt and Powder rivers. Now the Willamette Valley Flood Control dams are taking their toll. Two bright spots remain in Oregon, the Rogue and Umpqua area and the Columbia. On the Rogue, the spring chinook count at Gold Ray Dam averaged 28,128 fish from 1942 through The Umpqua spring chinooks have increased from 2,507 in 1946 to 9,314 in 1956 with every year class greater than its parent. The installation of two much needed fish screens on the Rogue at Gold Hill and Savage Rapids and the possibility (continued on page 5)

4 Page 4 February, 1957 The Director's Column Beginning with this issue, it is planned to initiate a practice of commenting upon some item of particular significance during the preceding month. With the beginning of the Forty-ninth Legislative Assembly, it is again time to consider, among other things, the question of legislation affecting the fish and wildlife 'resources of the state. Normally this Commission has certain matters relating to its program which requiie legislative action. This year the legislative program of the Game Commission is an extremely modest one. Over the past several sessions. the legislature has been very helpful in improving the basic fish and game code. There are seven bills which are being presented. With one exception, these are regarded as minor amendments and are as follows: An act designed to broaden the powers of the Game Commission in declaring open seasons. Under the proposed act the Commission could authorize the taking of up to 100 big game animals in a designated area not to exceed one township in size to alleviate damage to agricultural crops. Present statutes authorizing regulation of the harvest of big game animals are not, in the judgment of the department, sufficiently flexible to permit prompt and effective removal of small numbers of animals by the public. The Commission is expending approximately $100,000 per year at the present time for services and materials designed to assist landowners in the control of big game damage to their property. An act to amend the hunting and fishing license fees covering two special types of licenses. These are commonly known as the pioneer license and the old age indigent license. The proposed amendment would eliminate the indigent license. Oregon is the only state that has a license of this kind and no records are available to the Commission as to the reason for the adoption of this license, which was enacted in the 1941 legislative session. There is no measure provided whereby a consistent and valid basis can be established for application of such a license. An act relating to hunting and fishing license fees for disabled war veterans. The recommended amendment is merely a refinement of the existing law to enable the properly qualified veteran to secure his evidence of disability rating with less difficulty. An act relating to the application for and issuance of special game animal tags or permits. To the present statute the words "or permit" have been added for the sake of uniformity and clarity. Also, the statute as presently constructed prohibits successful controlled big game hunt applicants from participating in drawings in the succeeding year. The primary amendment being recommended provides that such a restriction will apply only to antelope tag applicants and not to deer and elk. The great number of hunters interested in participating in the limited antelope hunts makes this desirable for antelope but unnecessary for deer and elk because of the larger numbers of animals available. An act relating to the definition of nonresident in game and fish laws. For the purpose of clarification and consistency this proposed amendment would broaden the nonresident definition to include applicants for trapping and guides licenses. An act relating to angling from a floating device on part of the North Umpqua River. The present law prohibits the use of boats on the north fork of the Umpqua River above Winchester Dam near Roseburg. Since this statute was enacted several years ago, a number of impoundments have been created as a result of a hydroelectric development on the upper reaches of the north fork of the Umpqua. These impoundments are of such size that boat angling should be permitted but this cannot be done without repeal of the statute. The stream sections of the river below these reservoirs can be closed to boat angling under the Commission's regulatory authority. An act relating to protected game birds. There are several statutes in the game code covering in one way or another the protected status of both game and nongame birds. It is the hope of the Commission to secure a repeal of one of the older laws which is superfluous as well as inconsistent with other statutes. The statute protects certain species, such as the wood duck, for which the federal government now provides an open season. It also protects certain ornamental species not considered wild birds. P. W. Schneider NATIONAL WILDLIFE WEEK MARCH "Homes for Wildlife" is the theme for the 1957 National Wildlife Week to be observed from March 17 through 23, according to the National Wildlife Federation, sponsor of the event.. Purpose of the Week is to focus public attention on the importance of our natural resources and the broad and pressing problems of conservation. What can be done? What must be done? Nine courses of action are suggested by the Federation: 1. Start educational campaigns in your neighborhood and community. Interest your leaders in saving and improving wildlife areas. Tell civic organizations sportsmen and conservation groups, women's clubs, garden clubs, Lions, Rotary, church leaderswhat must be done. 2. Encourage and support research on wildlife and its living areas. Cures for wildlife scarcities are discovered through study of each animal's needs and the ability of the land to satisfy these. 3. Show the people who are using the landthe farmers, ranchers, lumbermen, home builders, engineers, industrialistshow they can manage their lands without destroying wildlife living areas. 4. Encourage citizen groups (conservation and sportsmen clubs, youth organizations, etc) to carry out wildlife habitat improvement projects in the field. 5. Get behind programs of state and federal conservation agencies. 6. Recognize and support sound policies for using our lands and waters to insure protection and improvement of wildlife habitats. Strengthen the Coordination Act (Public Law 732, 79th Congress) to make certain wildlife values will be protected and developed in connection with federal drainage and water projects. 7. Protect and defend our state, federal, and private sanctuaries, refuges, parks, forests, wilderness, and management areas. 8. Make it your business to find out if your state's waters are protected against pollution. Fight to keep them clean and useful for wildlife and healthful recreation. See if your state pollution abatement program is adequate. Get acquainted with the new federal pollution control law (Public Law 660, 84th Congress). 9. Support the efforts of private conservation organizations.

5 February, 1957 Page 5 THE SPRING CHINOOK (Continued from page 3) that a third at Gold Ray may be emplaced will save countless downstream migrants from destruction. The Nestucca, Nehalem. and some of the streams entering Tillamook Bay have small runs of spring chinook. Other streams such as the Coquille and Alsea have remnants of the race but in insignificant numbers. Because the fish remains in the stream during the summer and requires deep water for safety against humans and other predators, many streams are not suited for maintenance of the race. The Rogue River angler commonly spends over one hundred dollars for each spring chinook caught. From 1950 to 1956 the lower Rogue River segment of the spring chinook.sport fishery had an approximate average annual value of $355,000 and an average take of 3,543 fish or 13.3 per cent of the run of spring fish. Many more of the fish are taken in the upper river and the commercial fishery offshore takes a big slice of the population. Throughout its range, the spring chinook has an average weight of about r-ntwenty pounds and weights to sixty pounds are ofteh reached. The largest chinook on record weighed 125 pounds. It is found from the coast of central California to northern China. In most Salmon victims of 1956 flash floods in Wenaha River. places the flesh is red but at times in the northern habitat as much as onethird of the catch will have white flesh. There seems to be no reasonable explanation for the phenomenon. It has been reported that fish with mottled red and white flesh have been taken and individuals with one-half the body white and the other red occur. Its spawning migrations take it extreme distances. In the Yukon. it travels as much as miles upstream. Its ocean travels can carry it from California to Alaska. In the ocean, its food consists of anchovies. herring. candlefish. sandlance. pilchards. other small fish, and crustaceans. On its spawning migration, it can sometimes be caught on salmon eggs or herring, but the deterioration of the digestive tract precludes any effective use of such bait as food. Age at maturity varies greatly. Small ripe males six to eight inches in length and eighteen months to two years of age can be readily taken in headwater streams near where the fish spawn. Two and three-year-old males in from the ocean are common and are referred to as jacks. Most of the females mature at four or five years of age. Some fish are as old as eight years before they mature. Spawning time extends from August through September. The fall chinook starts spawning somewhat later, generally, and has been observed laying eggs in December. In Oregon, the most important sport fishery for the spring chinook occurs in the Willamette River where an average annual sport catch of 11,780 fish was tabulated between 1946 and During the period, the angler took an average of 23 per cent of the run. Water levels on the Willamette determine to a large degree the rate of catch in that river, the high muddy stages being less productive. Incidentally the average angler here spends about nine days to catch one fish! The taking of a spring chinook is a challenge of skill as well as luck. In most instances the fish are to be caught in particular situations. If the fisherman is not in the "slot," he can angle for days without a touch. On the Rogue, for example, the writer was in a line of fifteen or twenty boats fishing in May, 1943, a year when five fish were allowed as a daily bag. One man took five fish in four hours while only two fish were landed in the rest of the line. The future of the fishery is dependent upon the river environment. The river catch can be regulated and it is possible that pollution may be curtailed but the completely successful passage of spring chinook, the finest of Oregon's fishery resources, past dams is not possible. Losses will occur at each barrier in spite of the fish facilities thus far in position or in the planning or dreaming stage. Two reasons why the mouth of the Rogue River attracts so many anglers when the spring chinook are running.

6 Page 6 February, 1957 Angling Regulation Changes The Game Commission, after holding public hearings on January 11 and 25, adopted the angling regulations for 1957 with only minor changes from the 1956 regulations. The new regulations go into effect on February 9. The general summer trout season remains the same as before with only a slight change in date to provide for a Saturday opening. The general trout bag limit remains the same. The winter season for fish over 12 inches was extended through March 17 for the Wilson and Alsea rivers. A bag limit of 25 fish was established for shad fishermen. Sturgeon anglers will be required to keep the head and tail on any sturgeon they catch while the fish are still in the field or in transit. Purpose of this regulation is to help enforce the length restrictions. The complete angling regulations in pamphlet form will be available for distribution at license agencies sometime during March. The following summary includes only the changes made by the Commission. Shad Bag limit, 25 fish. Summer Regulations for Trout, Jack Salmon, Steelhead and Salmon Open seasons: April 27 to October 31 in all zones. May 25 to October 6 for lakes, reservoirs, and their tributaries, within national forest boundaries in the Cascade Mountains. (Includes Paulina Mountains.) Zone 1 Coquille River, closed to salmon angling from October 1 to November 30 in the area between the railroad bridge at Powers and the bridge at Powers on the Salmon Creek road. Salmon Creek, tributary of Coquille River, closed to salmon angling from October 1 to November 30, from its mouth upstream one mile. Foley Creek closed to angling from mouth up to Fish Commission hatchery. Eel Lake, bag limit is 30 trout per day or 60 in possession. Lake Creek and tributaries above Triangle Lake (Lane county) open May 11 to October 31, inclusive. Trask River closed to all angling from April 27 to November 30, inclusive, from the head fish rack site down to Hanenbrat Road (about 0.3 mile below the lower rack site). Trask River above Hanenbrat Road closed to salmon angling from March 1 to October 10. Wilson River above Lee's bridge and all tributaries above Lee's bridge closed to all angling. Zone 2 Crystal Springs Creek closed to all angling. Reason: To protect early run hatchery steelhead. Cedar Creek. (Sandy River) from hatchery dam downstream to the mouth closed to all angling except from June 15 to October 31. McKenzie River Leaburg Powerhouse Tailrace, closed to all angling from powerhouse downstream 250 feet. Gold Lake, open June 15 to October 6. Fern Ridge Reservoir borrow pit open to trout angling entire year. Zone 3 Diamond Lake closed to all angling within radius of 1,000 feet of outlet. Diamond Lake open May 25 to October 6, inclusive, except those portions lying within a radius of 450 feet of the mouths of Silent and Short Creeks which are open from July 15 to October 6, inclusive. Reason: To protect mature trout. Umpqua River system: Spring salmon season, open March 23 to June 9. Daily limit 1 fish, and 7 day or possession limit, 2 fish. Open area same. Smith River, opened up to West Branch for trout, jack salmon and steelhead no less than 12 inches during perd from November 1 to February 28. Zone 4 Bolan Lake opened to angling. Rogue River system, same as last year except for minor date changes. Zone 5 Davis Lake, use of motor craft to be permitted for fishing purposes. Metolius River and tributaries, closed to all chinook salmon angling. Metolius River closed to all angling from the Fish Commission rack downstream to 100 feet above the Camp Sherman bridge when rack is in operation. Mud Lake, bag limit 30 fish per day, 60 in possession. Reason: To permit anglers to harvest more trout prior to chemical treatment of the lake. Columbia River, closed to angling from interstate highway bridge to upper line of The Dalles dam. Columbia River waters of The Dalles impoundment above Highway 30 bridge closed to boat fishing. Zone 6 Thompson Valley Reservoir and tributaries closed to all angling. Reason: To protect 1956 stockings of under legal size trout. Lake of the Woods open to angling April 27 to October 6. Reason: To provide concurrent opening with Fish Lake nearby; also, to permit full benefit from rehabilitation program on these two lakes, anglers should be allowed to fish when trout are most easily caught. Zone 7 Minimum length limit on eastern brook trout eliminated. Reason: Brook trout maturing at small size are found extensively in the headwaters of the John Day and Wallowa drainages that are located outside the two high mountain areas already under this special regulation. Walla Walla River closed to all angling for a distance of 300 feet below the Hudson Bay dam. McKay Reservoir and its tributaries, bag limit, 10 fish 6 inches or over in length, and 20 in possession. Strawberry Wilderness Area lakes open season May 25 to October 6. Zone 8 Antelope Reservoir open to trout angling entire year. Bag limit, 10 fish over 6 inches in length and 20 in possession. Silver Creek Reservoir (Moon Lake), open to angling during regular trout season instead of entire year. Zone 9 No minimum length limit on eastern brook trout. Same reason as Zone 7. Camp Creek Reservoir, bag limit 10 fish 6 inches or over in length and 20 in possession. Catherine Creek (Union county) closed to all angling 500 feet above and below the dam of the city of Union water intake and from the upper Davis Dam to a point 200 yards below the lower Davis Dam. Catherine Creek below the city of Union water intake is open to steelhead and salmon angling except from June 20 to December 31. Minam River below Cougar Creek open to salmon and steelhead angling except from April 10 to June 1. Murray Reservoir, bag limit 10 fish 6 inches or over in length and 20 in pos session. Wood Lake, opened to angling. (Continued on page 7)

7 February, 1957 Page Fish Stocking * WATERSHED Rainbow Eastern Brook Steehead Cutthroat Silver Salmon Chinook Salmon Brown Trout Lake Trout Kokanee TOTALS 1 83,892 91,127 53,060 17, ,307 8, ,231 3, , ,447, ,980 76, , , ,569 2,131, , ,112 57,885 97,166 1, ,167 30, , , ,385 1, ,949 15, , ,353,913 1,390,301 58,155 62,055 72, ,660 83, ,764 3, ,210 1, ,543, , ,542 35,189 10, ,731 10, , ,534 6,359 6, ,530 12,300 9,079 92,920 15, ,829 16, , ,865 8, , , ,176 7,605 7, ,233 21,233 3,297 3, ,266 2,939 36,205 9, , ,134 4,605 71,193 6, ,932 7, , ,457 19,822 5,000 1,095,155 24, ,604 8,215 9,000 82,022 47, ,936 29, ,953 2,748 5,412 39,422.5 re ,656 7,245 2,000 31, ,606 1,232,762 24, , , , ,584 16, ,331 8,831 9, , ,382 82, ,251 26,059 15, ,000 7, , ,068.7 TOTALS 7,421,631 2,420, , , , ,929 62,055 81, ,706 12,828, , , ,625 42, , , ,760 1, ,044.1 NOTE: Figures in bold type indicate pounds of fish. *WATERSHEDS 1. Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook, Yamhill, Washington. 2. Washington, Yamhill, Benton, Linn, Marion, Clackamas, Polk, Lane, Douglas. 3. Multnomah, Columbia, Clackamas, Marion. 4. Hood River, Wasco. 5. Sherman. Jefferson, Deschutes; Crook, Klamath, Lake, Grant. 6. Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Jefferson. Grant, Umatilla, Morrow. 7. Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla. 8. Umatilla. Wallowa, Union. 9. Baker, Malheur, Union. 10. Malheur, Grant, Harney. 11. Malheur, Harney. 12. Harney, Lake, Crook, Grant. 13. Crook, Deschutes, Lake, Harney. 14. Klamath, Lake, Jackson. 15. Klamath, Jackson, Josephine, Curry. 16. Douglas, Lane. 17. Curry, Coos, Douglas. 18. Douglas, Lane, Benton, Lincoln, Tillamook. ANGLING CHANGES (Continued from page 6) WINTER REGULATIONS Open Seasons: Zone 1... February 9 to February 28, 1957 and November 1, 1957 to February 28, Zones 2, 5, 6 and 8... February 9 to April 26, 1957 and November 1, 1957 to April 25, Zones 7 and 9... See summer regulations for these zones. Open waters for winter fishing same as listed by zone last year except for following changes: Zone 1 Bag Limit: Trout, jack salmon, steelhead and salmon 12 inches and over: 2 fish per day and 4 such fish in possession or in 7 consecutive days. A special bag limit of 4 fish per day and 8 such in possession or in 7 consecutive days applies to the Tenmile Lakes and Tenmile Creek, outlet of the Tenmile Lakes. Millicoma River (East Fork) open up to confluence of Matson Creek. Millicoma River (West Fork) open up to a point 200 feet below Stolls Falls, except that the river is closed to all angling during the winter season from a point 200 feet below to a point 200 feet above Henry Falls. Rocky Creek (Lincoln County) closed. Middle Fork Coquille river open to Rock Creek. Alsea and Wilson rivers, winter season extended from March 1 to 17 with bag limit of 1 fish 12 inches or over per day, 2 in possession or 7 days. Salmon River from highway 18 bridge in gorge upstream about 400 yards closed to winter fishing. Zone 2 Long Tom River open up to Fern Ridge Reservoir dam. Calapooya River up to bridge site at Dollar Camp no longer open. Zones 5, 6 and 8 Mosier Creek up to first falls open.

8 , -.a N Large, gray, squirrel with white underparts and long p/umey Rather long rusty-brown untufted ears. Weight oz. Length up -to 23"- tail up to /OW 7 Found in interior va//eys of oak, maple and pine growths from summit- of the Coast range to eastern slopes of the Cascades. Ho / /ow trees used for winter homes and dens for young. Summer homes of /eaves and sticks built in branches of -trees. 3-5 young arrive in Man or April. Second brood often born in August Squirrels he/p reforestation by failing to locate a// -their winter caches of nuts and cones. Bobcats, marten, foxes, weasels, hawks, and owls keep gray squirrels on sharp lookout to stay alive. Oregon State Game Commission Bulletin 1634 S.W. ALDER STREET P. 0. BOX 4136 PORTLAND 13, OREGON Sugar pine cones are favorite food. A/so acorns, myrtle nuts-, buds, roots, seeds, insects and berries. otegon STATE -4111,04 CAME COMMISSION