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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1958
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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.
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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,.;,
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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.