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district in Marin County to be known as "The Mount Tamalpais Game Refuge." Realizing that the time is not ripe for the permanent acquisition of the Tamalpais Park project, they believe that the establishment of a large game preserve upon the mountain and its surrounding hills will maintain this region as a quasi-public playground until the larger plan can be accomplished. It is the purpose of the Clark-Owens Bill to prohibit the hunting of game animals or birds within the limits of the Tamalpais Game Refuge at any season. The area to be inclosed extends northward from Manzanita Station on the Northwestern Pacific Railway past the towns of Corte Madera, Larkspur and Ross Valley to San Anselmo; thence northwesterly along the railroad route beyond Camp Taylor to the Olema Road. Turning westerly to the quaint old village of Olema, the boundary then dips southerly to the east shore of the inner bay of Bolinas. Past Willow Camp, the mouth of Steep Ravine, and Rocky Point, the western line extends to Tennessee Cove, four miles above Point Bonita. The southern boundary follows the wagon road through Tennessee Valley to Manzanita Station. This tract will include the watershed of Mt. Tamalpais, the Bolinas Ridge, and the rugged range of hills to the northward, in which the San Anselmo, Lagunitas and Paper-Mill Creeks take their rise. About six or seven miles in an air line northwestward from the crest of Tamalpais lies the Carson Ridge, 1750 feet in its highest elevation. On its cool northern slopes are splendid forests, shading the tributaries of the Big Carson, a beautiful wild stream, brawling over huge mossy boulders with musical cascades. Graceful maple trees canopy its margin, their glossy foliage contrasting with the tawny shafts of the shaggy evergreens. In the fall, their leaves blaze through the forest aisles, or plate the slaty ledges with gold. June is full of rare delights along the cascading Carson. Tiger

lilies flaunt their carnival pageantry beside the faint-traced trail. Azaleas hang their fragrant clusters across the wildwood path. The Little Carson is an exquisite counterpart to the larger stream, flowing in a parallel direction to the southward of Carson Ridge. Both of these brooks flow through an unoccupied wilderness, drained by the lovely Lagunitas. Exquisite glades alternate with the timbered canyons, and it is there that the surviving deer are often to be seen. In the open season the Carson country, as well as the more accessible slopes of Tamalpais and the Bolinas Ridge, are alive with hunters. Frequently the whistle of a stray bullet comes to the startled ear of the holiday roamer, and it is indeed a marvel that more lives have not been lost through the carelessness of would-be deer-slayers. One of the most charming delights of the little wilderness of Tamalpais is the occasional sight of a bounding deer in one of these upland parks, which Nature seems to have made for them. Only a few survivors are left now, and the time has come when the pot-hunter and his kin will have to seek pastures new. On the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number, this bill has been presented to the legislature, for the purpose of making it possible for countless thousands of city dwellers to wander at will over this grand old mountainside, free from restraint or risk of accidental shooting. A board of managers, appointed by the Governor, will be empowered to accept donations of land or leaseholds from the owners of the present game preserves. The managers will employ wardens to enforce the provisions of this Act, and every effort will be made to afford harmless animals and birds a safe asylum in this region. And so, the lovers of Tamalpais believe that at the second sitting of the bifurcated legislature of California the Tamalpais Game Refuge will be established by law. All the people of the State will benefit by this measure, and no

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And if you have not made the acquaintance of this insignificant little pest it is only because the State of California maintains a force of trained men in San Francisco to inspect every fruit, every vegetable, and every flower that comes into this city from foreign ground. Their examination of these horticultural imports for traces of the dreaded fly is as thorough as the customs inspector's search of the suspicious looking passenger's baggage for smuggled trinkets. When the slightest trace of the tropical bug is detected, the fruit, the flower or the vegetable, as it may be, is seized without a moment's notice promptly destroyed.

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Not alone is San Francisco the scene of this continuous scrutiny, but in every county of the State, besides every port where steamers land, government agents are ever on the alert

to inspect the fruits and other horticultural products to prevent the landing on California soil of even one little fruit fly or its eggs.

One tiny brown fly, half the size of the every-day house fly, does not look particularly dangerous. In fact, one is very apt to buzz by you unnoticed. Yet if these little flies should succeed in eluding the quarantine officers, and paying us a visit, every State in the Union would close its doors to the 70,000 carloads of fruit that roll out of California each year.

That is why the State maintains a corps of bacteriologists to inspect every bundle of fruit, flowers and vegetables that come into the State by railroad, steamer, express or mail.

Yet the Mediterranean fruit fly, the most dreaded of all fruit pests, is not the only insect for which the inspectors search. It has scores of relatives that are equally unwelcome in the State, and there are hundreds and hundreds of other pests, common in various parts of America, Europe and Asia, that must not be brought into California. Even various parts of the

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Statutes are behind the quarantine officer in the performance of his arduous duties. The State legislature, with a full realization of the importance of the work, has given the quarantine bureau full power, first, to forbid the landing or distribution of all horticultural products until they have been examined and found free of forbidden pests, then to destroy infested imports. Still the law goes further and provides ample punishment for those who would step in the way of the quarantine officers and disobey the laws.

To execute these powers, ships must be boarded at sea, baggage of passengers must be examined, fruit and flowers must be scrutinized, even packages of fruit, vegetables and flowers arriving by express or other agencies must be held from delivery until they pass the piercing eyes of the State inspectors.

Trained by years of experience and study, the State quarantine officers can detect at a moment's notice the presence of fruit flies or their larvae. If the imported product is found to be infected with a pest not already in California it is destroyed. Boiling in steam is the common means of destruction. Only in a few cases where pests can be killed without damage to the product, is fumigation resorted to.

Legislative enactment in California has put a ban on large varieties of fruits and plants grown in foreign lands that are known to be the common prey of the Mediterranean fly, and its most dangerous relatives. Such products are barred from California. Those who bring them here are not even given an opportunity to return them. Destruction takes place immediately, for the State cannot take the risk of allowing such products here even long enough to be inspected.

Of all the horticultural products brought into California by steamer those most commonly infested with the Mediterranean fly are the fruits, vegetables and flowers of the Hawaiian Islands.

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