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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1958)
PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1958 foes S' iii Si V ft"'" 'f1 I i 17 jr. r 1 EVEN SMALL BRANCHES are utilized in a big Christmas tree operation. Here Ken Bishop of the Ken-Dell ranch shows a branch, pruned off an already cut tree, all tagged and ready for shipment. The branches are packed in 25-pound bundles and go to stores in the San Francisco area where they are used in Christmas decorations. . I y as- lP- 7 - pr . . ...... J rrS A STEEP CLIMI to get up to the higher levels of the Ken-Dell Christmas tree ranch at Tennant as this picture shows. The inspection party is shown here threading its way down one of the steep, snow cove-ed slopes where the latest thinning opera tions are being carried out. It took a lot of huffing and puffing as well as grinding long in the big hole of various jeeps and four-wheel drive trucks to get up to this 4.5 00 foot level i mid-November. Tranquilizers Used As Aid In Mock Spawning Process On Trinity Area By DEVAN L. SHUMWAY 1 SACRAMENTO UPI) Salmon spawning in California's Trinity River are being tranquilizer these days but apparently it is meeting with their approval. A State Department of Fish and Game publication describes a un ique, just-finished fish-trapping fa cility on the Trinity near the cen tral California city of Lewiston. The main points of the operation are these: 1. It allows the fish to do most of the work. 2. It uses a special tranquilizer to help matters. The installation, which cost the Federal Reclamation Bureau $300, 000 to construct, is operated by the California F&G Department as a temporary means of preserving sal mon and steelhead runs in the Trinity River system while con struction is in progress on the pro posed huge Trinity Dam. When the dam is completed, the fish won't be able to go above it and their spawning grounds will be covered by the reservoir. But that is a long- way off. So some thing had to be done to keep the fish going while they could. So the unique "Rube Goldberg" system was devised. It's actually so simple that one man can load about 100 salmon by himself dur ing a moderate run. This is how it works: A weir, set at an angle across the river, prevents the fish from traveling further upstream. The weir's operation is not affected by stream flow conditions. Just ' below the weir on , the west side of the river a fish lad der has been built and the fish. having no place else to go, jump into the ladder. Then they start through the sys tem. Their first stop is a holding tank, 68 by 12 feet in size and contain ing about four feet of water. The fish can't get out of here and they gegin to congregate. The operators of the system let them mill around until there are enough to haul to the stream above the construction area and release to spawn naturally. Just above the holding tank is 3 12 by 12 foot anesthetic tank -with a sloping bottom. It can hold about 1,500 gallons of water. To that water is added about 75 cubic centimeters of a coal tar derivative called quinaldine, which acts as -a tranquilizer for the Fish thus making control much easier. The system is set up so that water can well up between the holding tank and anesthetic tank. This has the effect of producing an artificial waterfall. Fish in the holding tank do what comes naturally to salmon. They jump at the waterfall. Suddenly they make it. And they are in the anesthetic tank. Or else they don't make it, and a little boost is needed. The boost is provided by a per suader in the form of a sweep which slowly drives the fish ahead until they reach the end of the tank. ' Then the sweep is raised straight up and a horizontal proj ection on it lifts the fish over the waterfall and into the anesthetic tank. When they are in the tank they are within seconds feeling a little like a drunk on Saturday night after the bars close. They're sleepy. Slowly, the fish begin to sink to ward the bottom. They fall onto a built-in escalator and are carried on a conveyor from the tank to the top of a waiting fish planting truck. As soon as they hit the cool wa ter of the truck's water tank they suddenly revive. And an hour later they are dumped into the spawn ing grounds. Since the spawning grounds will be destroyed when the dam is completed, this system won't be used forever. As a matter of fact. plans are now under way to re place it with an ultra-modern hatchery. The hatchery is designed for com pletion by the federal government sometime in 1961. It will be operat ed by the State Fish and Game Department with federal money. The plan of operation then will be to strip the eggs from the fish, hold them for hatching and rear the young fish to desired size for re leasing into the stream for a trip back to the sea. Medium Sized Hombres Tote Babies For Gun OK SACRAMENTO. Cal. (UPI) California has established a "com mon sense" rule of thumb for par ents who want to know when a child is old enough to own a gun. The California Department of Fish and Game believes the child is old enough when his mother and dad "would trust him to carry the neighbor's baby across the street." The department provided this yardstick for responsibility in a recent publication designed for parents whose children are asking for a rifle. "Usually youngsters are ready to start shooting when they have shown a sense of responsibility in other fields," the booklet said. "This may be at 12, 13 or 14 years of age." Under California law, however, responsibility alone is not enough to earn a boy or girl a coveted bunting license. He must complete a course in safe handling of fire arms and pass a test on the sub ject before he will be permitted to try his band at hunting. Since the law went into opera tion in 1954, more than 100,000 youngsters have received training in safe shooting. Partly as a result of the pro gram, California reduced hunting casualties from 132 in 1955 to 79 in 1957. That achievement won the state international recognition for an "outstanding hunter safety training program" from the In ternational Association of Game, Fish and Conservation Commis sioners. The hunter training program was based on a plan which went into effect ia New York two years before it was adopted by the Leg islature here. Instrurtnrc nro vntnntiuirc .1ia donate their time to help young people learn to Dandle guns properly. "YOU must underctanH " Ctli Gordon, state fish and game di rector, said, "that these people are not merely good hunters. They are nersnns whn hv toboti ,v.& time to study their subject, pass a , ngiu test in urearms safety and be certified anrt structors by the Department of nau anu name ana tne National Rifle Association. "Thev SDend manv hmtr r ttioti- free time to teach young Califor- u.uuo w luuuueniSj not only ot safe pun hanrilino hut t i o dl BUV VI KWU j sportsmanship." 'BUSY ACRES WASHINGTON- - I IP n F- first time in this century we are growing timber faster in the U.S. than we are removing it from for ests, accordiro tA JrAin R Vunh president of American Forest Prod ucts industries. The FPI is spon soring a ."Busy Acres" program to assist farmprc in mtttin. it,.;, f""""f, "".'I lands to work growing trees -to accelerate iree growth in the nation. DRY FACTS MONTPELIER, Vt (UPI) Bars are illegal in Vermont. Places where alcoholic beverages are sold must be called 4Ymintmc' wi counter stools are required. The law permits only one glass of intox icants on a ainuig table per person. Drinkers mav not stand or tarn Ibeir glasses around.
