OREGON STATE GAME COMMISSION ULLET1N MARCH, NATIONAL WILDLIFE WEEK March 15-21, 1959

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1 OREGON STATE GAME COMMISSION ULLET1N MARCH, 1959 $ 44 4 NATIONAL WILDLIFE WEEK March 15-21, 1959 it

2 March, 1959 No. 3, Volume 14 STATE GAME COMMISSION UILETIN 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 Rollin E. Bowles, Chairman Portland Kenneth G. Denman Medford J. H. Van Winkle.0regon City Ralph T. Renner Lakeview Max Wilson Joseph ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF P. W. Schneider Director C. B. Walsh Assistant Director W. D. DeCew Controller John B. Dimick Chief, Supply and Property Roy C. Atchison 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 A. V. Meyers Chief, Lands Section H. R. Newcomb Personnel Officer REGIONAL SUPERVISORS Leslie Zumwalt, Region I, Route 1, Box 325, Corvallis J. W. Vaughn, Region II Box 977, 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, 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 Prineville sixth graders look at bitterbrush plants browsed by deer. Austin Hamer, in charge of the Game Commission's youth education program, was one of the instruc tors for this outdoor classroom. (Photo by Ron Shay) 0 C E EXPOSITION *fr National Wildlife Week This Month National Wildlife Week, March 15-21, has as its theme Conservation in the Schools. Although emphasis is upon wildlife conservation, the Three R's are interrelated with all of the natural resources. Oregon schools will feature conservation programs which promote better understanding of natural resource management and use. With cooperation from school administrators, sportsmen's organizations, newspapers, radio and television, the attention of the public can be focused upon the need for better conservation education in the schools. - Co- chairmen for Wildlife Week in Oregon are Andy Landforce, Wildlife Management Specialist at Oregon State College; and Austin Hamer, Supervisor of Conservation Education for the Oregon Game Commission. Soil Bank Wildlife Landowners who have signed up for Conservation Reserve and have not definitely decided which practice to apply should consider G-1. Specifications for this wildlife cover planting are about the same as for A-2the establishment of permanent grass and legume cover. The program has special inducements this year for the wildlife practices. Wildlife cover plantings in most counties may consist of the usual pasture mixtures of grasses and legumes recommended for the locality. Plantings may include trees or shrubs; also, certain annual crops may be seeded for wildlife food. The Soil Bank program does not prohibit hunting. It would be to the landowner's advantage, if he has not begun performance, to inquire at the County A. S. C. office about the special consideration given to this wildlife practice. Silver Lake Deer Hunters Cooperate THE SILVER Lake Deer Study proved a huge success last fall from the standpoint of hunter cooperation. Nearly 7,000 permits were issued at eight checking stations located at strategic points around the area. With the exception of a trailer house located at Silver Lake, the remainder of the stations were unmanned and hunters helped themselves to permits and other literature. A field check the first weekend revealed that over 80 per cent of the hunters had visited a checking station and obtained a permit before hunting. Many of the remainder were on their way to check in when interviewed. Each individual was asked to pick up his own permit when entering the area, fill it out, and then deposit it at a checking station on leaving. The driver of each car also was instructed to paste a yellow identification sticker on the rear window. A field patrol was maintained, but activities of the hunters were not closely supervised. Despite lack of intensive control, damage to the isolated checking stations and other acts of vandalism were insignificant. This experience is important as it emphasizes the high type of conduct and sportsmanship which can be expected from the majority of Oregon's sportsmen. Literature on objectives of the research project as well as the Red Hat Program was available at the checking stations. Most hunters appreciated the importance of their part in making A deer hunter checks himself through a Silver Lake self-service station. the study a success and followed the commandments of the Red Hat Pledge. The Silver Lake Study was started last year as a long-term project to obtain detailed information on a typical mule deer herd and its range. Information on the range is being gathered by the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station of the U. S. 'Forest Service, while the Game Commission is responsible for (Continued on Page 8) Page 2 March, 1959

3 .Counting r Chips... By Herbert Lundy Editor of the Editorial Page, The Oregonian This is Oregon's Centennial Year. There can be no better time to count up our natural resource chips and see how we are doing in the game. Where have we been? Where are we going? What have we lost? What can we save and enhance? Is there a chance to beat the game and come out ahead? We in Oregon have arrived at a moment of revelation a moment of discovery as thrilling and as significant as that which came to Capt. Robert Gray when he sailed his ship Columbia across the bar and into the great River of the West in 1792; or to stocky David Thompson of the North West Fur Company, the first white man to run the course of the river from Canada to the mouth in This moment of revelation this irresistible awakening of public opinion is that a century of heedless exploitation is near its end. And that it is not too late to save our heritage, and even to restore a portion of that which has been lost. Where have we been these many years? We have been through the dark era, when only a few saw the future and these were swept underfoot by the weight of their times. This article is a condensation of Mr. Lundy's address to the Oregon Wildlife Federation at its annual meeting in Corvallis last January. Bulletin readers will find it of interest because it effectively points up one of the most pressinik and complex natural resource problems in North America today that of the anadromous fish of the Columbia River system in relation to the vast water development projects under way or planned. GAME BULLETIN Our history, our future, are inescapably tied to the river. First came the fur traders by sea, and then overland, down the wild, mean waterway, to trade with the Indians and to hunt the sea otter, the fur seal and the beaver. When the furs became scarce and no longer made great fortunes in Boston and Montreal and London, the fishermen and salmon packers came to the river. From the first small commercial catches of the Hudson's Bay Company, the salmon take grew to an all-time peak of 43 million pounds of chinook in 1883, when 39 canneries were operating on the Columbia. We may now think of these men of a pioneer industry as exploiters of a great resource. But they were only businessmen and workers, taking what seemed then to be a recurring and limitless harvest from the sea. The commercial catch held up fairly well until the 1930s, when other factors entered the field. Even the wilderness felt the surge of settlement. Enterprising farmers were damming the streams to bring water to their crops; towns and cities were impounding water to drink;.local utilities were raising dams to produce electricity to turn the wheels of industry and provide jobs for the newcomers. Who was there then to deny their right? To raise an outcry if they failed to provide even primitive means of fish passage in the barriers below 50 per cent of the spawning gravels of the Columbia River system a lost area which became 70 per cent when a beneficent government built Grand Coulee With the dams for irrigation came the open canals which trapped the salmon and trout in uncounted millions, casting the quivering carcasses on raw acres, draining rich topsoil into the streams. And throughout the rain forest of the coast, the tall firs of the Willamette Valley, the pine woods east of the Cascades moved the men with axes and saws. These were the worst of the exploiters, in earlier times, replacing nothing, cutting and burning an empire. But they were establishing a basic industry which still supports more families than any other in the state; an industry which with wiser practices of today and tomorrow will continue without end. For a half-century men had dreamed of! converting the Columbia, the Snake and! the Willamette rivers into a stairway of pools behind great dams. Here lay.the real wealth of the River of the West, called by the Indians "Ouragon." This was the way to put into harness the 180 million acre-feet of water wasting each year into the sea at Astoria; to control the river and to use it for the multiple benefits of electricity, irrigation, flood control and navigation in a complex of dams, ship locks, canals, generators, and transmission lines. Here was the way to (Continued on Page 6) Page 3

4 TheThree Rs of N Benjamin L. Simmons, E. State Departme] oungsters participate in the release of trout delivered to a national forest lake by Game Commission truck. arts are prepared by Harold Smith and Austin Hamer for the Game Commission wildlife programs presented during the winter school year. summer camp youngster shows?en interest in the cougar hide splayed by Ron Shay of the Game Commission staff. NATIONAL Wildlife Week offers a fitting occasion on which to review and evaluate the conservation education which is provided in Oregon public schools. Certainly no state has more reason to be concerned with conservation education than Oregon which has natural resources at the very root of its economic life and existence. "The Three R's of Natural Resources" are a vital consideration to every Oregon citizen. Conservation appears in the Oregon curriculum in connection with several subjects and at many grade levels. It is taught both formally and incidentally. Emphasis upon understanding of both the need for and the principles of conservation is found in every year of the elementary school science program; it is a specific part of each of four science coursesninth Grade Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physical Sciencein the high school curriculum. Conservation is a definite part of the social studies program for grades four, five, six, and eight and receives mature consideration at the high school level in World Geography, World History, American History and Government, and American Problems. It is important that teachers and administrators recognize the provisions for conservation teaching which exist within the curriculum and it is doubly important that the teachers concerned accept the responsibility and prepare themselves to teach conservation effectively. In order to assist teachers in this task, the Department of Education prepared and issued a special handbook in 1955, entitled Conservation Education in Oregon Schools. Every teacher whose assignment calls for teaching conservation should have this handbook available. If he does not now have it, he should request the principal of his school to secure a copy for him either from supplies at hand in the school district office or from the county school superintendent. This handbook is designed to build up the teacher's background of information and understanding regarding the problems of conservation and the urgency of their solution in six different but inter- Page 4 March, 1959

5 !turd Resources pervisor of Curriculum of Education related areas Oregon's soil, water resources, forests, fish and wildlife, minerals, and its natural beauty. It suggests problems for the students to pursue and activities for them to undertake in connection with the solutions. It provides extensive lists of resource materials: private, state, and U. S. government agencies, films, filmstrips, slides, pamphlets, books, periodicals, and magazines. Careful use of this handbook will materially assist any teacher in his preparation and planning for conservation instruction. Another development in conservation teaching is the appearance of outdoor education through school camping in a number of Oregon school districts. Although a recognized practice in eastern states and in California on the West Coast, outdoor education blossomed out in Oregon only within the past two years. Ashland pioneered with a program in April, 1957, when twenty-two fifth and sixth grade children spent a week in camp in the Rogue River National Forest. Then in May, 1958, 35 sixth grade children from the Crooked River School in Prineville spent a week in planned outdoor education at Camp Tamarack in the Deschutes National Forest, and in October, 1958, 50 educationally advanced children selected from grades 4, 5, and 6 of Salem elementary schools had a similar experience in the same area. Both of these projects had the cooperation and assistance of the Oregon State College Department of Physical Education and of the State Game Commission and both were developed as Curriculum Improvement Plan projects approved by the State Department of Education. While all phases of conservation receive attention through outdoor education of this kind, understanding and conservation of wildlife become a particularly rich part of the experience since the wildlife can be observed and studied in their natural habitats. The Department of Education encourages more such outdoor education projects and looks forward to the time when outdoor education becomes an accepted adjunct of the curriculum because of its great contribution to conservation. Boy Scouts working on a wildlife project at Sauvie Island run across a tree well marked by the work of beaver. Camp Nanamu Bluebirds hear a talk on wildlife and are shown mounted specimens at a summer camp session. Camp Magruder 4-H Club members take a nature hike with Cal Giesler of the Game Commission. GAME BULLETIN Outdoor classroom students are shown the various kinds of aquatic insects that form food for game fish in a farm pond.

6 A total of 998,237 waterfowl was counted in Oregon during the annual midwinter waterfowl inventory conducted the first week in January in cooperation with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This is the highest count recorded since the winter census was started and is a 53 per cent increase over last year. Ducks were up 56 per cent and geese 95 per cent. For the four previous years, census totals for Oregon were: , , , ,463 Public shooting grounds customers enjoyed good hunting during most of the season. At the Sauvie Island game management area a record of 10,743 hunters checked in and their take was 24,271 birds. The 2.3 per cent average per hunter also was the highest on record there. Figures for other shooting grounds are as follows: Summer Lake, 4,394 hunters, 11,522 birds; Malheur Refuge, 1,169 hunters, 2,750 birds; and Warner Valley, 995 hunters, 2,230 birds. The total kill for the four shooting grounds was 40,773 birds, of which 35,877 were ducks and 4,896 geese. * Pellet feeding experiments have been set up for all hatcheries except Fall River. Experiments are showing great promise and it is hoped that most of the hatcheries will be using a 100 per cent pellet diet within a few months. The quail trapping program on the Malheur Refuge has been quite successful in spite of the mild weather. A few of the birds are scheduled for transplanting to Nehalem Valley in Tillamook County and the rest will be distributed in eastern Oregon locations, including Baker, Klamath and Umatilla counties. Page 6 Counting our chips (Continued from Page 3) provide the sinews of industry for peace and war. Who today would deny the validity of this great concept? But the warning flags were up. How could the resources we had loved and abused be saved from extinction as the wave of concrete swept up the rivers, the new factories spilled their wastes into the channels, the cities grew and used the streams to carry away raw sewage? I was present at a historic meeting in Walla Walla in 1947 when the Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee composed of the governors of Northwest states and a representative of each federal department agreed to sponsor the Lower Columbia River Fisheries Program. The first congressional appropriation of one million dollars was made available in fiscal With money channeled by Congress through the Army Engineers to the federal Fish and Wildlife Service and the state fish and game agencies, the Lower Columbia 'program had invested approximately 15 million dollars by the close of 1958 in new and reconstructed hatcheries, stream clearance and laddering, screening of diversions and other works to increase production of fish. At each dam, millions of additional dollars have been invested in fish passage facilities. These are not big expenditures when balanced against three billion dollars of federal investment in the other water resources of the Columbia Basin. And it has been an annual Battle of the Budget to get even these amounts. Another 50 million dollars could be used profitably to carry this work on up the rivers of the basin and to solve related problems of resident trout. But it is no small contribution. As a single example, 76 million young salmon and steelhead of migrant age were released from the system's hatcheries below McNary Dam in fiscal But it is far from enough. As the task has grown greater, money has been harder to get. Limited research has shown that we are not always doing the right thing, or doing it in the right way. While commercial seasons were cut back in the Columbia, the ocean troll has boomed, and at the same time the passion for salmon has lured more thousands every year into the sports fishery. In 1954, the Columbia Basin Inter- Agency Committee made another gesture toward solving the fish situation motivated, I am sure, more by the demand from dam builders that the fish "obstructionists" be removed from their backs, than from great concern for the fish resource. The CBIAC set up a new Fisheries Committee of which I was chosen chairman. In two years' time one year more than was necessary, had there not been friction and jealousies to be removed this committee presented to CBIAC in January, 1957, a new program of action. In brief, we called for a five milliondollar basic research program and a 40-to-50 million-dollar upper Columbia Basin development program for anadromous salmon and steelhead, and for resident trout as well. You may have noted that the Fish and Wildlife Service is wary of making a thorough evaluation of the results of the nine years of work on the Lower Columbia Fisheries Program. I do not blame them. There are too many unanswered questions. Yet, if the Lower River hatcheries and related work have not produced conclusive gains in the fall chinook runs on which the program has been concentrated, how can we ask Congress for 40 million dollars for similar work in the upper basin? The truth is that the fall chinook salmon on which so much work has been done have been slipping persistently. And the spring and summer chinook and steelhead which migrate to the upper basin and hurdle a stairway of dams have been doing pretty well, thus confounding the critics of all dams. But even before this fact was hammered home, it was starkly revealed to the CBIAC Fisheries Committee that there must be a change of emphasis before we can go forward in an all-out fish production program. The great and crying need is for money for research. The biologists and management specialists who have dedicated their lives to this field at low pay, with inadequate staffs and limited facilities, are the first to admit how short a road they have traveled. What is known about fish can be put in your hat. And there is almost no money for research. We must obtain moneyin big chunks to pay for research in many basic problems. Without the answers now missing, the battle could be lost. Consider, for example, a single item in the basic research program drafted by the CBIAC Fisheries Committee. Biologists have learned the effectiveness of poisoning a lake or impoundment, killing scrap fish and predator fish with the trout, so that a new start may be made. But they have not learned how to use (Continued on Page 7) March, 1959

7 1-6, Counting our chips (Continued from Page 6 this method in a big river without destroying too many valuable fish. What a tool for management it would be to discover a chemical neutralizing agent which could be placed in a river at a certain point to make the flowing poison harmless! Our rivers could be treated in sections, killing out the carp and squawfish, giving the streambeds the opportunity to bloom again in natural food, and tremendously increasing the production of salmon and trout. We can save the fishery and make it a valuable partner in the multiple-use resource program, but we can't do it without money. We have a start on a program, but at the rate it is going there may be no fish worth saving before we get the answers we need. It is all right to throw your energies into fighting dams like Nez Perce and Lower Canyon. But the tide of development geared to the boom of population cannot be held back indefinitely. We have little time left in which to learn the secrets of the fish. In my years of interest in resource matters fish, game, power, irrigation and others I have come to recognize a disturbing inclination on the part of many sincere individuals to grasp at easy solutions which often turn out to be valueless, or oversold. There is also a tendency toward single-resource thinking, and this provides many traps and pitfalls. In our eagerness to save the game fish and game animals at all costs, we are inclined, I think, to lash out blindly rather than to seek out all the facts involving all the resources and the needs of the people. There is altogether too much emotionalism in our actions and reactions, when cold logic and planning would be more effective. Yet the fighting spirit has served us well. I do not accept the conclusion that the fight against damming the Deschutes River was lost. It is true, Pelton Dam was built after the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that a federal agency could trample state laws with impunity. We were castigated for delaying the production of power for several years. But in a larger measure the victory was ours. Because of that fight, and that delay, the utility involved was forced to install the most advanced methods of fish passage for both upstream and downstream migrants, not only at Pelton but at North Fork Dam on the Clackamas. This utility and others have become thor- (Continued on Page 8) GAME BULLETIN ONE OF the frequent questions this Commission receives is how many hunting, angling and trapping licenses are issued annually. For the calendar year 1958 there were approximately 580,- 050 licenses of all types issued (based on approximately 98 per cent returns). This number of people using our fish, game and fur resources is swelled substantially by another group of citizens, whose exact number is unknown. They include those under 14 years of age and landowners who do not need a license to fish or hunt on their own land except for big game. The growing importance of these resources to more people is reflected in the compilation of the total licenses issued from 1920 to the present time at intervals of one decade. The picture as grossly displayed in the tabulation on this page is one which by virtue of the general population growth of our state would logically be expected to some degree. However, it does reflect further, particularly since 1940, a rate of increase of licensed hunters and anglers at a ratio greater than the rate of increase in human population. While the state experienced a population increase of per cent from 1920 to 1958, the number of hunters and anglers increased per cent. Logically we can assume this trend to have been influenced by many factors such as increased leisure time, increased interest in outdoor values, improved means of transportation and others. The one exception concerns the trapper whose numbers were the highest in recent times during the 1930s and are currently the lowest since Here factors of economics have influenced this phase of our wildlife picture. Of more importance to this Commission is the bigger job it must do today and plan to do tomorrow in sustaining and, wherever possible, increasing these resources to provide for continued yields of fish and game at satisfactory levels. This must be done within the framework of more intense and diversified land and water use and presents one of the most interesting challenges of contemporary resource programs. We look forward with enthusiasm to the challenge. P. W. Schneider LICENSES ISSUED * Hunting 45,450 45,814 63, , ,156 Fishing 57,906 66,825 82, , ,173 Combination 8,641 19,063 25,504 83, ,729 Trappers 1,555 3,209 1,962 1, Total License Sales 113, , , , ,050 Percentage of increase of year shown over year of 10 years prior (8 years for 1958) POPULATION Total Oregon Population 953,786 1,089,684 1,521,341 1,726,630 Percentage of increase over prior period License sales increase for year 1958 over year 1920 = % Population increase for year 1958 over year 1920 = % * Approximately 98 per cent complete for the year. Page 7

8 Counting our chips (Continued from Page?) oughly aware of the great body of public opinion in this state which will stand up and fight for recreation and the fishing industry. In addition to that, the Pelton decision of the Supreme Court has alerted the nation to a great threat to western water rights. I regret to say that not enough pressure has yet been brought to bear in Congress to correct these colonial laws. I hope you will join in pleading this case in the 86th Congress. Still another gain came out of the Pelton fight the enactment of a new water code in the State of Oregon which gives fish and wildlife equal status with other resources in the development of water projects. I say we won a great victory at Pelton. It is not enough to fight brush wars against dams and pollution and bad forest and range practices. You must also plunge into the maze of comprehensive development. We must be in on the early thinking and planning which develop into resource programs. We have been acting like a bunch of amateurs tossed into the ring with pros. Here are a couple of examples: No. 1: A bill will be introduced in this session of Congress to establish a Columbia Basin Account. This is a bill sponsored by irrigationists for the benefit of irrigation. There are no big irrigation projects left which can be developed without subsidy. There are few left which can be tied to a single dam: Hence, the proposal is to pool a portion of the power revenues from all federal dams in the Columbia Basin to help farmers pay for irrigation projects wherever these are situated. The principle of a Columbia Basin Account is sound enough assuming that it will continue to be national policy to subsidize irrigation from power revenues rather than general taxation. But why in the world shouldn't federal power also assist in research and development of the fishery, since these dams have caused so much destruction and raised such costly problems? A levy on power for fish production makes more sense than a levy on power for cabbages. No. 2: A new bill will be introduced soon to establish the Columbia River Development Corporation a federal agen- Silver Lake Deer Hunters Cooperate (Continued from Page 2) the animal phases of the study. Measurements of the deer population, food habits, reproductive rate, disease and parasite problems, and the influences of other animal species will be made. Of equal importance is a study of the success and preferences of hunters. This is being done through information collected at the checking stations and by questioning a random sample of hunters while in the field. A summary of the 1958 season reveals some interesting results. A total of 6,793 individual permits were issued, many hunters obtaining two or more as they returned to the area periodically throughout the season. Hunting pressure was heaviest the first day with 3,008 individcy which would have the right to sell revenue bonds and use power earnings to finance the power facilities of new dams to be built by the Army Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation. The federal power corporation could use some of its revenues to help the fishery. But would it do so? It is our obligation to see that the responsibility of the federal dam builders to the fishery and to wildlife is clearly spelled out in this bill. Sportsmen and conservationists have the strength, now, to require the agencies of government and the leaders of industry to meet their full responsibility to the public. But our campaigns have lacked unity and too often have been undertaken, at the last desperate moment, without enough knowledge or recognition of the complex of values involved. We cannot separate recreation needs from comprehensive development of all resource values, nor should we put ourselves in that self-centered and weak position. Instead, we must work with all other interests in the resources field from the beginning. We can never reach our goals by depending upon last minute campaigns of negation and obstruction, conceived in desperation because of our own failures to make our strength felt all of the time. With this kind of approach, with this understanding and determination, we can look into the future with confidence. Men who can reach the moon can preserve the values of earth. uals participating. Over 2,300 rounds of ammunition were fired to bag 1,349 deer, 924 of which were bucks. Approximately 250 hunters were selected at random and asked to answer a series of questions as to their experiences and preferences. Points of interest revealed by this sample indicate that 80 per cent of the hunters preferred an October season. With respect to firearms safety, 69 per cent felt that all persons should qualify by examination before being issued their first hunting license. The use of colored headgear and other clothing for identification reveals that 55 per cent of the hunters still prefer red, while 17 per cent have converted to yellow. However, 27 per cent wished to be extra safe and wore a combination of both colors. Experience to date is most encouraging. Information being gathered will prove increasingly valuable as the study continues. With the excellent cooperation provided by hunters, important progress is predicted. FEBRUARY MEETING OF THE GAME COMMISSION BidsAccepted bid of $35,554 by Riverside Construction Company for construction of two ponds at the Bandon hatchery to be used for rearing of summer steelhead. YAQUINA BAY ACCESSTabled offer for donation of a site for boat launching at Yaquina Bay because of competition with several private marinas. CALL FOR BIDSAuthorized call for bids for replacement of dam across Butte Creek; for construction of a work road and parking lot at Camas Swale; and for installation of a concrete boat ramp at Depoe Bay. GAME BIRD ALLOCATIONS Approved production of 23,000 pheasants and 3,600 chukar partridges for release in 1959 and schedule for allocation to the various counties. FISHERY RESEARCHExpressed approval of and concurrence in House Joint Memorial proposed by House Fish and Game Committee asking for additional federal appropriations for fishery research in connection with hydroelectric dams; and further expressed support of current efforts for securing essential funds for stepped up anadromous fish research. NEXT MEETING Scheduled next meeting for Friday, March 26:-.1 4 ti 140 Oregon State Game Commission Bulletin 1634 S.W. ALDER STREET P. 0. BOX 4136 PORTLAND 8, OREGON 100 STATE TO L I,413 ARY DEPT OF FISH & GAME DEPT OF NATURAL RES. STATE OFF ICE BLDG I, SACRAMENTO 14, CAL IF ( COMMISSION