Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-12-28
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GAVE ADDRESS
AT STANDPOINT

G. w. H. Heideman was the guest of
of the Pend dOreille Game Protective
Association at Standpoint at a meeting
held Monday night, December 20, and
the Standpoint Pend d'Oreille Review
of last Friday printed the following
account of Mr.. Heideman's address:
C. w. H. Heideman of Boomers Fer
ny, for the past five years engaged in
biological surveys for the federal fish
and game commission, Monday eve
ming delivered an entertaining educa-
tional message on wild life to a. room
full of the members of the Pend d.
Oreille Game Protective association,
gathered in the Chamber of Commerce
quarters at the city hall
''Mr. Heideman is thoroughly con
versant with this subject and his talk
held so much of the charm and fas-
cination of the trail that he was
forced to bring his address to a close
several times before the meeting could
make up its mind to let him quit and
adjourn.
He dwelt at some length on the
preservation of game fish, presenting
arguments on an ever increasing de-
mand for keeping the trout streams
stocked and the important conjunc-
ton of hatchery work with this effort
as well as the necessity of permitting
fish to spawn undisturbed in streams
and lakes to aid and increase natural
propagation. The depletion of white
fish in Lake Pend dOreille he attrib-
uted partially to the great inroads
made by commercial fishermen but in
the main assigned the cause to con-
slant disturbance of the whitefish
during the spawning season by fisher
men casting their lines into the spawn
ing beds. He also said that depletion
of Pend dOreille trout was perhaps
due to commercial fishermen shipping
them out as whitefish in violation of
law. In response to query by
Charles j. Rudine regarding the re-
opening of Lake Pend d'Oreille to com
mercial whitefishing, he said he did
not believe this should be done until
the lake was again well stocked, an
inspection service to regulate shipping
installed at shipping points such as
Standpoint and Bayview and that those
engaged in commercial fishing should
be required to support whitefish hatch
cries and continuous restocking of the
lake after the manner of federal reg
ulation Of Alaskan salmon fishing.
He deprecated deer hunting with
dogs, stating that dogs would invar- |
iably drive deer out Of a section and
spoil hunting in that area. He urged
sportsmenlike conduct at all times
and the giving Of $3.50 break to the
wild creatures sought by hunters. He
also strongly recommended a coopera-
tive effort by the game protective as
ISOLATION, Chamber of Commerce. the
Bonners Ferry Commercial Club and
the forest service to establish a game
preserve on certain parts of forest re-
serve land on the eastern slope of the
Priest Lake country.
His talk was illuminated nv MANY
BRIEF narratives of experiences on the
trail as hunter, fisherman and re-
'earcher Of the biological survey
Of existence of the lower
orders inhabiting the earth and anal
'sis OF creature instincts and their
influence in game and fish propaga-
lon. His talk was heartily enioved bv
ais audience and was attentively lis
.ened TO throughout"