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j/444 A 4 OUTDOOR Volume IX, Number 6 Issued Monthly

JULY, 1942

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HENRY F. SCHRICKER INDIANA DUNES PARK BEACH Governor cover page CHARLES M. DAWSON SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS Commissioner, Division of Agriculture page one S. C. HADDEN INnIANA' rLACIAL LAKES Chairman, State page two Highway Commission SQUIRREL SEASON DATES SET STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION page three Wm. Roth, Chairman Ernest Atkins, Secretary J. I. Holcomb Milton Matter DEDICATION OF FAWN RIVER HATCHERY page four HUGH A. BARNHART HIGHWAY WORKERS TRAIN FOR WAR Director, Department of Conservation page five HARREL MOSBAUGH ANNUAL CASTING MEET HELD Director, Division of Fish and Game page six CHARLES A. DETURK SIXTEEN HUNDRED ACRES Director, Division of State Parks, Lands REFORESTED page seven and Waters INDIANA OIL PRODUCTION T. E. SHAW page eight Acting Director, Division of Forestry BLUEGILLS GAMEST THINGS FRANK N. WALLACE page nine Director, Division of Entomology FEDERATION DEDICATES MARKER RALPH ESAREY page ten Director, Division of Geology BOOST MOUNDS PARK page eleven DENZIL DOGGETT State Engineer CONTRIBUTE TO SALVAGE CAMPAIGNS page twelve 0

TROUT FISHING NO JOKE MARC G. WAGGENER page sixteen Editor

EDITOR'S PAGE A. E. ANDREWS inside cover BLODGETT E. BRENNAN Associate Editors THE COVER PAGE The primitive, elemental beauty of Indiana Published monthly at 406 State Library Bldg., Dunes State Park-vacation playground of thousands of outdoor lovers with its three- Indianapolis, Indiana, by Indiana Division of Agri- mile, white sand beach along Lake Michigan- culture, in cooperation with the Indiana Department holds a fascination for the visitor that grows of Conservation. with each return to this meeting place of wind, waves and weather. It is unlike any Entered as second-class matter at the post office at other part of Indiana in scenic attraction but Indianapolis, Indiana, under the Act of June 6, 1900. possesses all the facilities for visitors which are typical of the Indiana state park system. 13

- I New beach is setting for swimming and diving events.

Swimming and Diving Championships At , Aug. 22-23 THE eighth annual Entries Being Received for Annual Meet - the annual meet and Shakamak State to serve the thousands Park Swimming and List Thirty-Six Events for 1942 Competition of swimmers who are Diving Champion- attracted to this park ships, one of the major outdoor aquatic events of and beach during the vacation months. A new the middle west, is scheduled for the weekend of bathhouse, modern in every detail, with an en- August 22-23, and is again expected to attract a larged dining room and concession has been under record entry list. construction and will be in use prior to the meet. An additional feature of the meet this year will The meet again this year is being sponsored by be the formal dedication of the new bathing beach the Department of Conservation and the Jasonville and bathhouse. Members of the State Conserva- Industrial Bureau and will be held under the super- tion Commission, officials of the Department of vision of officials of theAmateur Athletic Union Conservation and others will participate in this and under AAU regulations. All records estab- program immediately preceding the opening of the lished in this meet are automatically registered swimming and diving meet. with the AAU and included in the yearbook on The former bathing beach on Lake Shakamak swimming and diving events. has been doubled in size and permanent floats and Thirty-six events are listed for competition in diving towers have been constructed for use in (Continued on Page 12)

EVENTS (Trial Heats at 10:00 A. M. Each Morning)

AUGUST 22, 2:00 P. M. AUGUST 23, 2:00 P. M. 1. Shakamak Open...... Men's, 800 Meters, Free Style Shakanak Open...... Women's, 200 Meters, Free Style 2. Shakamak Open...... Women's, 400 Meters, Free Style Shakamak Open...... Men's, 400 Meters, Free Style 3. Shakamak Open...... Men's, 100 Meters, Backstroke Shakamak Open...... Girls' (14 and Under), 100 Meters, 4. Shakamak Open...... Women's, 100 Meters, Backstroke Breaststroke 5. Shakamak Open..Boys' (14 and under), 100 Meters, Free Style Shakamak Open..Boys' (12 and under), 50 Meters, Free Style 6. Shakamak Open..Girls' (14 and under), 100 Meters, Free Style Shakamak Open...... Men's, 200 Meters, Backstroke EXHIBITION...... Platform, High and Low Board Diving Shakamak Open...... Women's, 300 Meters, Medley Relay 7. Shakamak Open...... Men's, 200 Meters, Breaststroke Shakamak Open...... Men's, 3 Meters, Springboard Diving 8. Shakamak Open..Girls' (12 and under), 50 Meters, Free Style NATIONAL 9. Shaknmak Open...... Women's, 200 Meters, Backstroke JUNIOR.... Women's, 100 Meters, Breaststroke 10. Shakamak Open...... Men's, 100 Meters, Free Style Shakamak Open...... Men's, 300 Meters, Individual Medley 11. Shakamak Open...... Boys' (14 and under) 200 Meters, Shakamak Open...... Boys' (14 and under), 150 Meters, Free Style Relay Medley Relay 12. ShakamnakOpen...... Men's, 100 Meters, Breaststroke Shakamak Open...... Women's, 100 Meters, Free Style 13. Shakamak Open...... Women's, 100 Meters, Breaststroke NATIONAL JUNIOR.... Men's, 10 Meters, Platform Diving 14. Shakamak Open...... Girls' (14 and under), 150 Meters, Shakamak Open....Women's, 150 Meters, Individual Medley Medley Relay Shakamak Open ...... Men's, 200 Meters, Free Style 15. NATIONAL JUNIOR...... Women's, 100 Meters, Free Style Shakamak 16. Shakamak Open...... Girls' (14 and under), 100 Meters, Open...... Boys' (14 and under, 100 Meters, Backstroke Breaststroke 17. Shakamak Open...... Boys' (14 and under), 100 Meters, NATIONAL JUNIOR.. Women's, 400 Meters, Free Style Relay Backstroke Shakamak Open...... Women's, 200 Meters, Breaststroke 18. NATIONAL JUNIOR...Men's, 800 Meters, Free Style Relay NATIONAL JUNIOR:...... Men's, 150 Meters, Medley Relay

OUTDOOR INDIANA :: Page One Indiana's Glacial Lakes Valuable Asset in Conservation Program

ABOOK could be writ- Hold Attraction for Anglers, Nature Stu- tions have had is to get dten about the In- dents and army of Vacationists the public to under- diana glacial lake re- Growing A rmy Vacationistsof stand that the fishing gion and not get it all does not end with early told, but this article will give some of the general September nor begin with June 16. April is a facts about it from the viewpoint of the fisherman, wonderful time to catch those big northern pike-- canoeman, boatman, and amateur naturalist. an idea to toy with till next spring. Another fact Some of the Indiana lakes are large, with miles- is that some of the most delightful fishing to be long runs with motors a possibility. Many of them had comes in September, October and even Novem- are used much in recent years for sailing. Other ber at the northern lakes. The chambers of com- lakes are of moderate size and still others very merce have been trying to make the public con- small. Some are shallow, some deep and some both scious of this, but without much success so far. deep and shallow. Most of them are now mapped The public still muffs some of the best of the year by county surveyors or by chambers of commerce, at the northern lakes. but even today there are some lakes not on the The lakes contain nearly every species of Ameri- maps. Usually these are small and isolated. can game fishes. All of them contain largemouth Flowing from most lakes are small streams that bass, bluegills, crappies and perch. Some of them are always clear and never liable to floods. The also have northern pike, wall-eyes and smallmouth lakes receive the heavy rains, and they are so broad bass. The big red-eared sunfish has been distrib- and so numerous that precipitations that would uted to nearly every lake in the state and in some cause floods and great property losses in other of them has made remarkable records. The bluegill parts of the state are expanded over lakes, sloughs and bass remain the favorite game species. and marshes, the waters draining out gradually Growth through creeks and small rivers that seldom rise Conditions Favorable as much as two or three feet. The growth of Indiana fishes is rapid and the These streams are always clear, because any fertility of Indiana lakes is very great. Scientific muddy water passes through many hundreds of studies are still under way on both of these sub- acres of lakes, and sediment is precipitated before jects, but it is already evident that the lakes of the outlet streams are reached. The angler may will produce a greater weight of fish depend on finding clear water for his fishing at any than many of the colder lakes of other time of the year and in any weather, but the truth regions. It is a very common statement of expe- is that the streams, as a rule, are little used for rienced fishermen that it is impossible to fish out fishing, the lakes being more attractive to the ma- all the fish from any northern Indiana lake, by jority of folk. There are, however, some excellent legal methods. smallmouth bass streams in the lake district, and Throughout this lake district wild ducks nest in there have always been parties of anglers who sloughs, marshes and along the low borders of preferred to fish the running waters. In more lakes. They are becoming an important summer recent years, also, some of the creeks have been attraction for the vacationists. Here and there stocked with trout and these streams have been are remnants of old-time tamarack swamps. heavily fished this year with excellent results. There are even some hills, of real prominence, though as a rule they are missed by the tourist--- Are Popular for Float Trips Hell's Point at Pokagon State Park, the Hoosier The streams connecting lakes or flowing from hills and others of Steuben County, Diamond Hill them are often used for boat-floats of a day or less near Ligonier, the high moraines southward from or for canoe trips of a week or more. For easy Bristol, the eminences along the south fork of the paddling and clear water, it is doubtful that some Elkhart River and many others. The lake district of Indiana's more noted streams could be surpassed has its modest ranges with a good share of level in the whole nation for canoe streams. land and former prairies. It is the lakes, not the streams, however, that It is a country well worth a visit of a week or receive the great majority of outdoorsmen and more, though only a part can be seen in that time. their families and friends. In fact, the summer It is just as interesting a place for the southern In- inflow of vacationists has made an outdoor busi- diana resident to visit as are the southern counties ness for many counties that has come to be recog- for the northerner. With a cooler climate and the nized as one of the most important in the northern many square miles of the hundreds of lakes, it is lake district. There are whole counties where the an ideal place for the vacationist of the middle summer business amounts to more than that of all west who likes fishing, water sports and nature the rest of the year. Chambers of Commerce have study. Every year it is visited by hundreds of recognized this, and some of the more progressive thousands from the nearby midwest and every of these have issued booklets about their lake re- year it becomes better recognized for its excellent sources. and sustained fishing and the many recreations of One of the problems these business organiza- its lakes.

Page Two :: OUTDOOR INDIANA SQUIRREL HUNTING SEASON DATES SET

Indiana's open season for hunting grey or fox season by the Division of Fish and Game was done squirrels will begin this year on Monday, August under authority of an act of the 1937 session of 10, and close on Thursday, October 8, with bag and the General Assembly. possession limits of five squirrels. Establishment of zones, each with its 60-day This year there will be no zoning of the state as open season for squirrel hunting, had been tried in the past, with different open seasons for the in the past in an attempt to meet climatic differ- northern and southern zones. This action was ences prevailing over the state. At one time three taken by the Division of Fish and Game upon zones were in effect-southern, central and north- recommendation of the State Conservation Advis- ern-but in more recent years the state had been ory Committee which also suggested the open sea- divided into a southern and a northern zone, with son dates. The abandoning of the zones and the the southern zone including about two-thirds of the fixing of opening and closing dates for the squirrel 92 counties.

More than three hundred members of the Western Horse Riders' Association participated in a two-day outing at in June. Above, a part of the group is shown at lunch, while at the right are a part of the nearly two hundred horses which association members transported to the park for a series of rides over the bridle paths.

LANIER MEMORIAL AT MADISON ATTRACTS MANY VISITORS

Right-The porch overlooking the lawn and the Ohio River. Below-View of the river and the Ken- tucky hills from the porch. Right-Street entrance to the mansion.

OUTDOOR INDIANA :: Page Three DEDICATION OF FAWN RIVER HATCHERY WAS COLORFUL AND PICTURESQUE OCCASION

Dedication of the Fawn River State Fish Hatch- and officials of the Department of Conservation. ery, near Orland in Steuben County, was combined The program on the hatchery grounds was pre- with the celebration of the opening of the 1942 ceded by a parade which included a number of fishing season in a colorful event which attracted beautiful floats, a marching delegation from the more than three thousand anglers and spectators. Angola Lions Club and several high school bands. Participating on the program with Governor The program was sponsored by the Orland Busi- Henry F. Schricker was U. S. Senator Ray- ness Men, the Steuben County Conservation Clubs mond Willis, the State Conservation Commission and the Angola Chamber of Commerce.

Governor Henry F. Schricker poses with "Queen" Gloria Aldrich (at governor's right) and attendants. Floats in the parade.

Part of the crowd around the speakers' stand during Governor Schricker's address.

COLLECTS WILDLIFE STAMPS CONFUSION ON RIVER NAMES Miss Daisy Voyles, of Indianapolis, is one of the Confusion often results from mention of Eel many Hoosier stamp collectors who has a complete River or St. Joseph River. There are two of each set of every Wildlife Stamp series which has been in Indiana. Both of the St. Josephs are in the issued. Collectors are rivalling conservationists in north. One comes down from the northwestern their purchase of Wildlife Stamps and there is a corner of Ohio into Indiana, joining the St. Marys considerable demand for the issues of previous River at Fort Wayne and forming the Maumee; years. These may still be obtained by writing the the other comes out of Michigan into Indiana near National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D. C. Bristol, flows through the cities of Elkhart and South Bend, and re-enters Michigan. One Eel River rises in Whitley County, flowing into the Pin oak trees are coming to be used much for Wabash at Logansport. The other is formed by lawn plantings, because of their shade, lacy foliage, creeks converging in the south part of Putnam glossy leaves and brilliant fall color. County.

Page Four :: OUTDOOR INDIANA State Highway Workers Training for War Duties in Maintaining Transportation NDIANA'S wartime Classes for State, Citty and County Road of Civilian Defense, in emergency program Washington, to outline to keep the state's high- Officials Is Follow edSubdistricts in and organize a national ways, roads and streets program, through state cleared and open at all times has entered the second and local civilian defense councils, to insure ade- phase of planning and organization. The first quate protection of highways, roads, streets and phase, a series of six district conferences spon- utilities against any possible disaster. sored and directed by the Indiana State Defense In the district conferences every phase of pro- Council, closed June 9. tection from repair of bomb damage, flood dam- Acting to maintain free movement of men and age, inspection of bridges and structures for pos- materials of war as well as to insure continuous sible natural hazards, gu rding of structures, movement of all necessary civilian traffic, Gover- clearance of rights-of-way of wreckage or other nor Henry F. Schricker, at the suggestion of obstructions, maintenance of supplies of materials Clarence A. Jackson, Director of Civilian Defense, and training of auxiliary crews of workmen to authorized the program of planning and coordi- maintenance of machinery and equipment, and nated action into which the trained men of the emergency engineering planning and preparation three divisions of thoroughfares have entered with have been discussed. a determination that insures the success of the entire procedure. As a third phase, the organization and training Earl W. Cassady, civil engineer from the State of volunteer auxiliary road repair and demolition Highway Commission, recently appointed as En- crews to assist the already established highway, gineering Director of the State Defense Council, road and street officials and employees in any un- has directed the organization of the technical usual emergency is being undertaken. These will plans and conducted the district conferences which be utilized when and if needed for the special duties constituted the first phase. Experts from the State to which they will be assigned, under the direct Highway Commission of Indiana, from the Engi- supervision of competent supervisors. With the completion of the over-all neering School of Purdue University, and from training and planning the three governmental units charged by municipal street departments of major cities in law with the maintenance of these three traffic the state, aided by the State Fire Marshal and artery systems in Indiana-state, county and city State Police Departments, participated in the dis- -will be ready to act either as individual units or trict conferences, leading discussions and plan- en masse. Within a very few weeks, these three ning training programs to be undertaken locally units, now separate and distinct, will be ready to as the second phase. The Indiana program has work together in complete accord, each supple- already achieved wide note. No other state has as menting the activities of the other agency, if need yet set up such a program to protect traffic arteries for such arises. from possible war hazards or natural hazards The now organized skilled road and street em- made more acute by exigencies of war. ployees, and the volunteer auxiliary crews, like- Indiana's program was well under way when, wise, are receiving the special training prescribed some days ago, the President called upon the Office by the Federal Office of Civilian Defense.

Road and street officials witness incendiary bomb demonstration at Fort Wayne.

OUTDOOR INDIANA :: Page Five Annual Casting Meet Held By Howe H. S. Sportmen's Club

SPORTSMAN'S CLUB Indianapolis Students Ardent Anglers-Use 14 meeting Mr. Alden of the in Hadley, from the State activities Outdoor Indiana Conservation Classes Conservation Depart- Thomas Carr Howe High School in Indian- ment, showed to club apolis were brought to a climax in the annual members two movies, one of wild geese in Louisi- Spring tournament held May 26. ana, and the other of the Audubon Camp in Maine. Each Spring semester, at the close of the club He reviewed some of the experiences he had en- meetings, a casting tournament is sponsored for countered during his extensive traveling. On April all club members and any other students inter- 21, three persons, Charles Sutphin, Happy Haines, ested in this sport. New honors were again at- and Dick Wilkey, from the Indianapolis Casting tained in this year's tournament. Scores of 96 and Club, demonstrated to club members proper tech- 91 were made by Walter Hunt and Marvin Braley, niques in casting, and later supervised a trial tour- first and second place winners in the Boys' Divi- nament. sion. First place winner in the Girls' Division went New and past copies of OUTDOOR INDIANA are to Lois Schulz with a 79 and second place to Joan constantly kept on hand for reference use in the Newby with 75 points. Various types of artificial study of conservation. It is felt that the combined bait, sinkers, and nylon leader were awarded as efforts, on the part of faculty sponsors and the prizes. pupils, have made definite progress toward the Each Spring this club, sponsored by the Biol- stimulation of a closer relationship between stu- ogy Department, is open to all students interested dents and Mother Nature. Hopeful expectations in conservation and its related activities. Its pur- were expressed that similar studies of conserva- pose is an effort to increase in the students a tion will be encouraged in other high schools. greater interest and appreciation for outdoor life. Since these combined activities have proved suc- Formal meetings were held each week and were cessful for the second year, in all probability the followed by practice casting, under the supervi- Sportsman's Club will be offered as a permanent sion of faculty sponsors, Merle Wimmer and Wil- extracurricular activity for the coming Spring liam Smith. semesters.-By Joan Newby. On several occasions the club was privileged by having guests at their meetings. At the April

Page Six :: OUTDOOR INDIANA Sixteen Hundred Acres Reforested Under Law on Strip-Mined Areas THE first year of opera- Two Million Trees From State Nurs- planting made by the tion of Indiana's law company is inspected and Firms requiring the reforesta- eries Planted by Coal Mining approved by forestry of- tion of areas from which ficials. coal has been removed by the stripping or open-cut In the past fiscal yepar, the first year of operation method has resulted in the planting of approxi- of the law, the Division of Forestry issued permits mately two million trees on 1,617 acres of such for stripping to 60 companies for work at 95 land. The plantings made under the supervision points in 14 counties in the southwestern part of of the State Forester have made a very satisfac- the state. A major ity of the acreage planted tory growth and during the year have an excellent was devoted to con- chance for sur- ifer trees-short- vival. leaf, Virginia, jack The law, enacted and loblolly pines by the General As- -and the remain- sembly in 1941, ex- der, where soil con- tended a voluntary ditions were suit- program in which able, was planted a part of the coal in hardwoods, in- producing compa- cluding black lo- nies had been par- cust, black walnut, ticipating for sev- tulip poplar, sugar eral years and re- maple, silver ma- quired all compa- ple and elm. Due to nies employing the weather conditions strip-mining meth- Harry Hyatt, Director of Conservanation of the Indiana Coal Producers in April during Association, is shown handing ac check for $6,067.50 to Acting State od to participate. Forester T. E. Shaw, in payment for 1,258,000 trees furnished by the which many of coal lands under the In the past several Division of Forestry for planting on strip-mine the pine plantings years several mil- Strip-Mine Reforestation Act passeed by the last Legislature. Approxi- were made, these mately 1,000 acres were planted this year. Although now required by law lion trees had been to plant the stripped areas, it long hias been the policy of the members of trees were more planted voluntar- the Association voluntarily to pplant these areas-Program 1930. seriously affected ily and the results than hardwoods. of these plantings indicate the value which the Attention is being given in plans for future general planting program will have in supplying plantings to the use of cottonwood trees as a future timber and recreational opportunities. source of wood pulp. This species of tree has been Under provisions of the 1941 law, each company seeded by natural means in various areas and has mining coal in Indiana by stripping off the soil made exceptional growth. Cottonwood trees are overlaying the coal is required to reforest an area now being developed in the state forest nurser- equal to that stripped. In addition the company ies in anticipation of a more general use of this must reforest an additional area equal to one per species. cent of the acreage stripped, a provision which None of the planting done this year was by the eventually will complete the reforestation of Division of Forestry, as the coal companies were older stripped sections. A permit to remove coal given an opportunity to make their own plantings. by this process must be secured from the Divi- Most of them did this but a few forfeited their sion of Forestry and a bond of $25 per acre bonds and these funds will be employed by the given for the acreage to be stripped. The bond Division of Forestry in planting the proper acre- is a guarantee of compliance with the planting age of these companies during the 1943 planting requirement and is not released until after the season.

GOOD MAST CROP ABOUT YOUR COTTAGE Bird lovers and hunters of squirrels and birds If you are interested in game and song birds and will be interested in preliminary observations that in game mammals, you can improve the environ- a good crop of mast is maturing. The native ment of your summer cottage by having shrubs mulberries had big crops of fruit. So did wild around it. These shrubs include the smaller dog- cherry and ash trees. Many hickory and sassafras woods, elderberry, spicebush, wild grapes, bitter- trees are laden with fruit that will mature next sweet, and sumacs. The sumacs that grow on the fall. The shrubs-grapes, bittersweet, sumac, uplands are not poisonous; the poison sumac grows rose, five-leafed ivy, hazelnut, gray dogwood, in the marshes and its seed cluster hangs down pagoda dogwood, red haw-also promise large and looks somewhat like a bunch of white-green crops of wildlife foods for the fall. grapes of very small size.

OUTDOOR INDIANA :: Page Seven Indiana Oil Production Headed For Peak Under War Stimulus

AT THE present Daily Income From Petroleum Estimated at put down. In south- time, production $25,000--Gas Production Is Being Increased ern Indiana, in Craw- of oil in Indiana va- ford, Perry, and ad- ries from 18,000 to joining counties, a 19,000 barrels a day, and has an approximate value number of wells were drilled during the years from approaching $25,000 every day. Production has 1862 to 1868. None of these found commercial been steadily increasing since 1936, until today, production of oil or gas, but several were reported with a yearly production of over seven and a quar- to have found shows. At Terre Haute, in Vigo ter million barrels, we are again approaching the County, a well drilled in 1865 found oil at a depth peak of Indiana production, reached in 1904, slightly greater than 1,600 feet, but was drilled of eleven and one-third million barrels per year. deeper to make a water well. Before 1870, three Since December 23, other wells were drilled, 1941, there have been none of which had more certain Federal restric- than shows of oil or gas. tions imposed on the . With a record of little or OIL PRODUCTION IN INDIANA drilling of oil and gas 1 DY YEARS no production from any wells ; these restrictions, test well, activity in In- made necessary by the .- diana was of little con- shortage of steel, have sequence until 1886. At reduced the number of this time, discoveries wells drilled in Indiana, ' -o in northern Indiana and, in all likelihood, - opened one of the most will check to a certain . j remarkable chapters in extent the expected rise - the history of petroleum in Indiana production L development. for this year. It is of i- £h Natural gas was first interest, however, that .... used for illuminating the recommendations j purposes in the United for maximum oil pro- .- .... 5 $ States at the village of duction in Indiana made Fredonia, New York, in by the Office of Petro- T the year 1821. The use leum Coordinator for of natural gas spread to War have been increas- '" Z NATURAI the Pennsylvania oil re- ing. The recommended ,. - gions following the dis- maximum production + covery of the oil re- for May was 17,900 bar- '°°°° N s sources there. In 1884 rels daily, and for June , great quantities of nat- the recommendation - ural gas were discov- was increased to 18,900 ,400 ered near Findlay, Ohio, barrels daily. OAPRODUCTION IN IND1ANAOF GiOG in the Trenton lime- The citizens of Indi- ' - stone. As a natural ana, and the petroleum ] I I i i i course of events, the in- industry, may point terest in natural gas with some pride that ,. - spread to Indiana, and there is no longer the ut- in 1886 the first natural ter disregard for sound , a a gas well was drillednear conservation practices Eaton, Delaware Coun- which once character- ty, Indiana. ized the development of the natural gas and petro- This well at Eaton had been bored in 1876, and, leum reserves of the state. It may be of interest as the company was exploring for coal, no atten- to trace briefly the development of these reserves tion was paid the gas which they encountered at in Indiana from the beginning of exploitation to about 600 feet. This gas was sufficient to produce the present. a flame about two feet high, and did make some The first producing oil well to be drilled as an impression on the minds of certain local persons, oil test in the United States was the Drake well, for in 1886 this well was deepened to 922 feet, when at Titusville, Pennsylvania, completed in August, gas was found in the Trenton limestone. Enough 1859. Shortly after development began in the gas was obtained, if local accounts may be trusted, Pennsylvania fields a wave of "oil excitement" to make the roar of escaping gas audible for a swept over the eastern United States; at this time, distance of two miles. Not long after this, oil was the first wells in Indiana to be drilled for oil were (Continued on Page 13)

Page Eight :: OUTDOOR INDIANA "Indiana Bluegills Gamest Things In World"-Old Fisherman Says [ OUT the time us Hoo- Travel Restrictions Not Hurting Hoosier and told my wife I was Skiers gits all pepped Angler With Fine Sp ort eregoin' to try to ketch a up about what we got ort Hereat bass and that surprised right here to home, her because I only went along comes some loud-speakin' feller and he big- fishin' eight evenings a week. So she gives me some towns us and makes us modest and retirin' and we orders, sayin' she didn't want no big bass, but only keep still and let 'im put it over on us. But anyhow two about eleven inches long-jest right fer two the fact is we got about of us. So me and my everything we need fishin' bird dog went to fer sport right here in the river and I ketched Hoosierdom. the first eleven-incher I mind the time me right away and the and my wife was away next one I ketched was up north at a camp nearly fifteen inches where they was hun- long, and old Sport derds of miles of trout was plumb disgusted streams in a quarter- with me when I hooked hour drive and some of my spinner hook on the water in easy walk- the fly ring and started in' distance. They fer home. He didn't git musta been twenty er time to smell around more of us in that more'n half of the bank camp, and I was the in that short time. My only one that got ear- wife give the bigger nest about wadin' the bass to a neighbor and said to me, kinda ste- Paul Benelheimer, age 9, Flor- streams. All the others saidtome, kindastern- ida, Indiana, holds a 13-inch was goin' out day after ly, that henceforth and largemouth caught at Pales- Hubert Fudge, Gary, landed day to ketch bluegills. in all the tine Lake. thists stringstring off catfishcatfi takentaken on day to ketch bluegills. future, by Paul is also a suc- cracky,she wanted her cessful bluegill fisherman. a fly rod from the Tippecanoe Itjestlookstomekinda cracky, she wanted her River at the Butterfield Camp. as if they's a lesson in orders filled like she that, like this: Ifthey's give 'em. That fifteen-incher jest ruined a pleasant one place in the world where .bluegills and bass is evening, because I could have spent three er four numerous and the ketchin' is good, hours fillin' that order. by cracky, it's Indiana, and they're Now they was years when bass the most popular fish in the world. was the goal and ambition of all my They hain't nobody goin' to big-town fishin'. I secretly turned up my nose me on that point and us Hoosiers to bluegills-not big enough. I would don't have to feel sorry fer ourselves throw big bass bugs and chunks of er feel like we're playin' second fiddle feathers and deer hair into the bul- jest because we may not be able to rushes all around a lake and have do as much travelin' this year as we the best time in the world. We once did. ketched some bass, too. But every Now you can take bass, jest fer time I took 'em home, my wife instance and example, and I betcha wanted some bluegills er catfish. they can be ketched outa some stream After more than a quarter-century er pond in every county in this state. of married life, she finally made her Of course, bluegills is a little more point plain and I started out after finicky than bass and likes lakes, 'gills jest to change the line of sug- ponds, quarries and gravel pits, but gestion. And I got the surprise of they's plenty of places where you can my life. git them and they's plenty of 'em, too. I took my bass fly rod and put on Now I used to be kinda high-toned trout flies and went after bluegills and too sportin' to ketch bluegills. jest like I fished fer them trout on I'd go up to some northern lake, er the streams I was tellin' you about, down to some clear stream in the (Continued on Page 15) high hills of southern Indiana, er mebby to some corn-belt stream, and I'd spend the day fishin' fer bass. I Anne Mahoney, Terre Haute, posed with mind once, the five-pound largemouth which Henry right in the corn belt, I Greider, Syracuse, caught at Lake Wa- got home from work about 5 o'clock wasee, where he has fished for 40 years.

OUTDOOR INDIANA :: Page Nine Federation of Clubs Dedicates Marker At Entrance to Memorial Forest

DEDICATION of Expresses Conservation Aactivity of Membership- of the great state the kiosk at Located Along State Hig,hway 150, Near Shoals of Indiana, and the Virginia Clay- on the right the pool Meredith Me- U. S. Forestry morial Forest, combined with a pilgrimage to the medallion. The inscription reads-"The Virginia forest, was an outstanding event of the annual Claypool Meredith Memorial Forest was dedicated state convention of the Indiana Federation of May 27, 1938. It was established by the U. S. Clubs during the sessions at French Lick recently. Forest Service cooperating with the Indiana Fed- The pilgrimage was led by Mrs. T. Eugene eration of Clubs in memory of Virginia Claypool Bailey, Romney, State Conservation Chairman, Meredith, honorary president of the Federation assisted by Mrs. H. A. Trueman, Bedford, and and past president of the Indiana Union of Lit- Mrs. Charles Rodman, English, co-chairmen, and erary Clubs, a pioneer in club work, in education signified again a tribute to the leader who pio- for women and in farm management. From this neered so magnificently in works connected with plantation of "penny pines" contributed by the the progress of women in the Hoosier state. Erec- club women of Indiana will develop a lasting, liv- tion of the kiosk at the entrance to the memorial ing monument for one who loved trees, and by its forest had been a special project of Mrs. Bailey establishment will extend the life of a great woman during the past year. into coming generations. Tarry ye here and rest The kiosk, constructed of polished pine with awhile." projecting cover to protect the panel hand-lettered The plantation contains 255 acres, planted with on parchment, has recently been completed, under Virginia and short leaf pine trees. The plan was plate glass, and the landscaping of the grounds, a inaugurated during the presidency of Mrs. Fred- beautiful setting, with stone wall, flagstone pav- erick Balz, Indianapolis, and every club contrib- ing, terrace bank, and log posts and guard rail uted to the acreage. The forestry service agreed giving protection to the gravel driveway off the to plant and maintain the plantation. Two hundred slab of the highway. The kiosk and entrance were fifty-five thousand trees have already been planted. designed and installed by the State Highway Com- Mrs. Frederick Balz, past president of the fed- mission of Indiana. eration, spoke briefly of the purpose of the planta- Flanking the inscription on the left is the seal (Continued on Page 12)

Right-Inscription on the kiosk at the entrance to the memorial forest.

Below-Federation members attending the dedication: Mrs. T. Eugene Bailey; Mrs. H. A. Trueman; Mrs. Frederick Balz; Mrs. Fred Bell; Mrs. W. C. Allen; Mrs. A. S. Miles; Mrs. G. A. VanDyke; Mrs. Charles Rodman; Mrs. Irvin Fahr; Mrs. Raymond Johantgen; Mrs. J. S. Bronshot; Mrs. G. C. Bowman; Mrs. O. B. Hancock; Mrs. H. P. Humphrey and Mrs. H. D. Wolfe.

Page Ten :: OUTDOOR INDIANA Entrance to the "Great Mound" showing part of the wall and moat. Boost Mounds and Brown County State Parks As Interesting Places For Family Picnics Y ou people outside the Accessibility and Vaaried Attractions Ap- place is close to Indian- war factories may apolis." That was what not understand just peal to Bergson Famil y and Their Friends another of the gang said. what I mean by all this He wound it up by re- writing, but our argument when we were eating ferring to me-"What do you say, Bergson?" our lunch at our plant over here at Cedar Village "Our family has been to the Mounds several may give you an idea or two anyhow. It came up times," I said, and added: "I don't see why you because the fellows have been taking their little fellows always have to refer your arguments or rests and vacations in groups-no empty seats in opinions to me." their cars-no getting out and going it alone as it "Because you and your family started going to used to be. Often we ride busses or trains. these state parks years ago and you've seen all of Two or three fellows brought up the discussion them. Honest now, what do you think is best?" by asserting that at Anderson That put it up to me. I must have said something is the best park in the state. Their argument was about like this: that its history goes back farther than that of any "Right now the best state park may not be the other, and, of course, they are right about that his- one that is best in peace times. Every state park tory part. is different from the others. If a family wants to "I had been there a time or two in my life," said go swimming, it would be hard to find something one of the men, "but I was always in a hurry to better than Bass Lake Beach. If you want to swim get around and see things. Now you've got more and fish, Pokagon State Park and Shakamak are time. Well, I looked over those mounds pretty well about perfect, one north and one south. But right and I'll be darned if they're not now you might want to get to the something to study. That big Shelter in t|hepicnic area. closest place, and it has seemed to mound is certainly a swell job and me that, for all around recreation it was done so long ago that no- and nature, the Brown County body answers the puzzle. They i State Park is about the best." must have been good engineers or "Mounds has a lot of good na- astronomers." ture study," was an argument put "It's funny how the mounds up to me. never sunk in on me till I had less "It has," I agreed. "It has some time to go places and more time to of the prettiest trees and trails to spend when I got there. I used to be found anywhere, and there's go dodging around all day, driving White River, which is getting here and driving there, and never cleaned up again and some time time to sit still any place. Now I will give that state park some good have to save tires or wait on a bus ' fishing. But Brown County State and I have more time. One good Park is one of our favorites be- thing about the Mounds is that the (Continued on Page 14)

OUTDOOR INDIANA :: Page Eleven CONTRIBUTE TO SALVAGE CAMPAIGNS

The Department of Conservation and the State Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, early Highway Commission have been among the major in June. contributors to salvage campaigns staged to col- To date more than seventy-five tons of junk have lect metal and other junk of value for the war been turned in for war purposes by the Depart- program. Pictured below are trucks from the two ment of Conservation and the State Highway Com- departments which were a part of the Salvage for mission has turned in approximately eighty-four Victory campaign held in Indianapolis by the tons of rubber in addition to scrap metal.

Left-The junk on this Department of Conser- vation truck included an old water tank from the Governor's mansion.

This load of junk from the State Highway Com- mission included worn- out tires and truck and car parts.

Swimming and Diving Championships Federation of Clubs (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 10) the meet this year, eighteen on each of the two tion and the plan fostering the fruition and said days. Six of these are National Junior AAU also that the proposed Benjamin Harrison Memo- events, awarded to the Shakamak meet in recog- rial will greatly accelerate reforestation in In- nition of the high quality of the competition which diana, if this memorial became a reality. it attracts. .National Junior events this year in- Mrs. Bailey expressed her appreciation to all clude: Women's 100-meter free style swimming; organizations having a part in making possible men's 800-meter free style relay; women's 100- this dedicatory service marking the climax of a meter breaststroke; men's 10-meter platform div- new era in conservation, another milestone in the ing, women's 400-meter free style relay, and men's federation achievement, and said, "as we dedicate 150-meter medley relay. Other events for the meet this permanent marker, may we consecrate our are Shakamak Open events and include contests endeavor anew to this for boys and girls under 14 years of age as well as place of sacred historical value and over that age. Entry blanks may be secured from the surrounding beauty, to the future W. L. Sanders, meet director, Shakamak State generations, to preserve the heritage we leave to Park, Jasonville. them-our Federation Forest." In addition to the improved beach and bath- The interest in this plantation was begun while house, provision has been made for spectators to Mrs. Balz was serving as president and continued enjoy the meet in more comfort than was possible through the years of Mrs. Edwin I. Poston, who in the past. This year there will be additional space ardently supported the movement, followed by for spectators and they will not face the sun while Mrs. George W. Jaqua, and under the present watching the events. president, Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren.

Page Twelve :: OUTDOOR INDIANA Indiana Oil Production of natural gas was during 1939. During 1937 an (Continued from Page 8) intensive drilling campaign was undertaken in discovered in the northern Indiana Trenton area, Indiana, as well as in Illinois and Kentucky. This and Indiana's first oil and gas "boom" was well drilling campaign, the result of a period of inten- under way. It has been variously estimated that sive exploration by geological and geophysical from 30,000 to 40,000 wells were drilled in north- methods, has resulted in a steadily-increasing ern Indiana, most of them during the years from number of new pools. 1886 to 1910. The history of this boom, especially Since 1936, there have been about twenty pro- with regard to the natural gas, was one of the most ductive areas discovered in Indiana. Of these, the shocking examples of hysterical development and Griffin pool in Gibson and Posey Counties has been unnecessary waste in the entire history of the the largest and most productive, with production petroleum industry. It was estimated by the State to date totaling just under 10,000,000 barrels. One Geological Survey, in 1887, that approximately of the most recent discoveries, the Mt. Vernon pool, in Posey County, gives promise of being one of the better pools. From 1886 until the present, about 140,000,000 !_ air: I ,. barrels of oil and several hundred billion cubic feet Iii" of gas have been produced in Indiana. While it is I sZ rather unlikely that this state will ever again have

Ew°-- such an abundance of natural gas, it is to be hoped

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Conservationists Invited To Enroll in State Guard

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I l . 5: IN4 r *Lh sINDIAN Hoosier sportsmen who are looking for a place to fit themselves into the nation's war effort will find a niche for which most of them are ideally suited in the Indiana State Guard, according to Adjutant General Elmer F. Straub, commander. An ardent devotee of outdoor sports and a col- : lector of firearms, General Straub declared there was perhaps no group in Indiana who would be more useful in the State Guard service than men whose hobby is the field and stream. "Their knowledge of Indiana highways, byways and terrain, the familiarity and expertness of B many of them with firearms, and their general ex- perience in taking care of themselves under all 100,000,000 cubic feet of gas were wasted every sorts of conditions definitely class outdoor sports- day. By 1907 the great Trenton gas field was pro- men as A-1 State Guard material. ducing only about 20,000,000 cubic feet daily, only "There are undoubtedly thousands of sportsmen one-fifth the amount wasted every day during the in Indiana who for some reason cannot enter the earlier years of development. Federal armed services, but who want to have a In May, 1889, large quantities of oil were encoun- vital place in the defense of their country. Many tered in the Diall or Guarantee No. 1, near the cen- of them can find that place in the State Guard." ter of Terre Haute. This well, later known as the It is necessary for State Guard members to live Prox well, is one of the most interesting wells on in or near a city where a Guard unit is located. 'record in Indiana. Although wells drilled nearby Conservationists who live in or near one of the produced relatively little oil, the Prox well is re- cities listed below, are between 18 and 55 years ported to have flowed almost 60 barrels an hour old, and want to enroll in the State Guard, may when drilled in, and, until the time it was aban- either call in person on a drill night or write to doned as a fire hazard, in 1928, produced oil in "Commanding Officer, Indiana State Guard, State slowly diminishing amounts. The total production Guard Armory" at: Anderson, Attica, Blooming- must have been over 200,000 barrels, although ac- ton, Columbus, Crawfordsville, Darlington, Del- curate records were not kept. phi, Elwood, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Frankfort, From 1900, when the Loogootee gas field was Gary, Greensburg, Indianapolis, Kokomo, Lafay- discovered, until 1936 there were twenty-five areas ette, Lebanon, Madison, Marion, Martinsville, proven to be productive of either oil or gas; some Mount Vernon, Muncie, New Albany, New Castle, of these areas consist of more than one producing Noblesville, Portland, Princeton, Salem, Shelby- pool. Oil production in Indiana reached an all-time ville, South Bend, Spencer, Terre Haute, Tipton, low during 1933; the lowest recorded production Wabash or Whiting.

OUTDOOR INDIANA :: Page Thirteen Boost Mounds State Park (Continued from Page 11) cause we can see wild deer down there, and some- times see wild grouse, and we live as if at a hotel but sleep in a cottage in the woods, even fish if we want to." I went ahead then to say something I'd been wanting to. say for a long time. "This Brown County Park is right next door to Indianapolis; that's what seems so wonderful to me. Anybody living at the capital can go down there in about fifty miles of driving and be in This fine string of crappies mountain scenery, with wild deer seen almost any ranging from 9 to 14 inches in time, and with one of the biggest wilderness areas length, was taken from Lake Freeman by Mrs. W. S. Wal- in Indiana. It's a case of going from big city life ters of West Lafayette. to wilderness in an hour or two. We've been down there lots of times, and we haven't seen much of it even yet. Some time when Splidge gets a little big- ger, I'm going to get back into the wildest part of it where practically nobody goes. I hope they never build any roads in there, because when a road comes in the wilderness goes out." "I never thought about roads like that," said one of the men. "I guess you are right. The difference between that park and Highway 37 is the road. Miss Patty Jo Ringer, Ponca City, Okla., displays a string Take the road out and there would be wilderness This is "Pal," a two-year-old of bass caught while fishing again. In other words, you've already got roads black and white ticked English with her father, W. N. Ringer, in a wilderness all along Road 135, only the wilder- setter, owned by Francis Ma- Farmersburg, last month. The ness goes away when the road comes in." rany of Newburg. string weighed 20 pounds. "You said it," spoke up one fellow. "It's nice to know there's a wilderness down there in fifty miles WORSE THAN TERMITES of Indianapolis, even if we don't take time to get The Dearenses recently bought a house and it into it." seems that Willie the Woodpecker was thrown in "And it's a wonderful thing - twenty-three free. A born tease, the bird worries the residents square miles of land just growing up as nature by chopping away at the walls and studding of the intended. I'll bet there isn't another big town in house. Rocks have been thrown and air guns avail America with a place like that right at its door. nothing-even the police didn't help. At least not many of them, in the United States." "I'll start drying the dishes and then, rat-a-tat- I left them with that idea. tat, there he is, right in front of me but in the "I guess you're right," said one of them, a family wall," said Mrs. Dearens. "He even follows me in man. "And the best of it is, you can go down there the bedroom. I can't escape him." and take the whole darned family and they all get "And to think I used to worry about termites," a kick out of it." said Mr. Dearens.-The Terre Haute Tribune.

Above-The attractive float which carried the "Queen" and her attendants. Right-This float dedicated to the nation's armed forces, represented Pokagon State Park.

Page Fourteen :: OUTDOOR INDIANA NATURE PROTECTS NESTING BIRDS - HARD TO SEE

The unobserving hiker might pass within a few At the right is a hen pheasant with sixteen feet of these nesting birds without realizing their chicks, on a nest which was only six feet from the nearness, due to the protection which nature has roadway at the Harry White farm, four miles provided. At the left is a Canada goose on a nest north of Kentland. Sixteen of eighteen eggs in the of nine eggs, discovered on a lagoon off the Little nest had hatched when it was found by J. O. Mead Kankakee River during the early part of May. and photographed by Dallas Cannon, of Kentland.

Indiana Bluegills Gamest Things gills-it's a family sport. I mind when my kids (Continued from Page 9) was little, I used to tie a rope around their ankles only on our Indiana lakes instead. I've .always and then tie them to the boat, so if they did fall been mighty thankful to Hanner ever since, be- out I could haul 'em back in-no jokin'; I did. So cause she got me to findin' out somethin' I've been they all got exposed to wastin' their time like their muffin' over fer all these years. Boy, a bluegill pa at bass fishin'. But Hanner, she stayed to home, on a light fly rod, er a long, bendy cane pole with er in the cottage. Then when I got to ketchin' a fine tip, er a long castin' rod that lops over like bluegills, she would go, too. Now she's got her a willer switch-boy, oh boy, that's somethin'! own fly outfit and she ketches bluegills, too. Fer his size, one of these Indiana bluegills is the I don't feel sorry fer nobody that has to fish here gamest thing in the world. in Indiana, because he can do some kind of fishin' I got to experimentin' with the darned things. any time of the year. We got some of the best of You see, I always did say that a man that went the fishin' and huntin' in the world, and don't let outside of Indiana to ketch bass was jest over- nobody big-town you about that. If you can't go lookin' somethin'. I never did. In fact, if I go to Alaska this year like you hoped, don't jest slump some other place-and I do go whenever I can- down to home and moan ; git out and ketch yourself it's never to ketch bass but to try to git somethin' a bass er bluegill. Git acquainted with Indiana. we hain't got. Well, when I got to ketchin' blue- You'll be surprised and tickled, too. gills, I found out that you don't have to go outside Indiana to use your trout tackle and git a trout fight outa a bluegill. Bluegill fishin' is a lot faster than troutin'. You git 'em faster. And a bluegill is jest as much an insect eater as a trout, and he will git hisself fooled by any kind of doodle bug made outa feathers, rubber er hair. Provide Good Autumn Sport Another thing I found out is that bluegills keeps right on bitin' till the ice covers the lakes. I have ketched 'em on flies in October, November and even December. And September and October is some of the best times to git 'em. A bluegill hain't like one of these here Indiana trouts, layin' in a hole down in the roots of some hangin' sycamore tree, waitin' fer a minner. A bluegill has got a smallish mouth and he can't gobble up no sizeable minners; Deputy sheriffs in Lake County catch more than law violators, so he feeds on insects most all the time. as shown by these five bass which averaged five pounds each. Sam Calhoun, George Morrison and John Kobella, all of They was another thing about fishin' fer blue- Crown Point, made the catch in Bingo Lake.

OUTDOOR INDIANA :: Page Fifteen TROUT FISHING IN INDIANA NO JOKE TO SYRACUSE ANGLERS-- THEY CAUGHT THE FISH

HERE are some of the trout caught by Lyle Woodard and John Macy of Syracuse last May. Together they took an estimated seventy-five trout, rainbows, brooks and browns, ranging in size from seven to sixteen inches. The largest trout in this picture was fifteen inches long. Woodard is an experienced trout fisherman, having lived many years in Michigan near good trout streams. Macy began his trout fishing this year and has been very successful. They fished in many waters of northeastern Indiana, including Solomon Creek, inlets to Wabee Lake, Little Elkhart River, Emma Creek and other streams, including the inlet to Hoffman Lake. They and other trout fishermen have been much interested in the restocking of trout streams this year with larger fish than those used for plantings in the past. Trout fishing in Indiana this season has been unusually good, and has made some excellent sport during the time anglers could not go after bass and bluegills. Woodard and Macy use both flies and live bait. They report most of their fish taken from holes under farmers' flood gates. Another fisherman, who uses flies exclusively, reports he has taken most of his trout from rather shallow water, usually near boulders and below dense growths of water vegetation.

State Highway Commission of Indiana

The following employees of the State Highway Commission of Indiana are now in the armed services of the United iStates:

Harry G. Alford Chas. M. DeStefano J. C. Inman Gilbert W. Mugg E. G. Schloot Bert A. Allen R. J. Dick W. C. Jaeger J. I. Mullen George B. Schoolcraft R. W. Armstrong Wm. H. Dieterle F. A. Johnson W. M. McShay Robert H. Seward J. R. Barnette Benjamin Evans J. E. Jones Carl G. New Wilson A. Seward Robert F. Bash Jarvis W. Fergason Vernon Kane M. A. Nickel G. I. Seybert Maurice B. Baughn Wilbur A. Fleenor Francis Kehrt John E. Ogden R. E. Shade Gilbert E. Baumle Frederick Forcum R. C. Kerch Paul J. Ogden G. E. Shaw Walter M. Beam James Otis Freese Harold W. King Robert A. Paddock John P. Slater Wayne Beaman Charles R. Fuller Charles Thomas Kirk Rector Parks Wm. G. Stephenson William Biehl George E. Goodwin A. W. Klika Merle Parvis J. V. Smythe Carl W. Bittle Edward P. Gould Clyde H. Knapp Curtis Patterson H. L. Snodgrass J. H. Bookedis R. George Groves W. C. Kramer Norman J. Pera Sanford Thos. Smith Jackson Bosley V. A. Grummell Harry Krashen Ralph E. Pinnick D. L. Stillwell Carl L. Brehmer James Grund H. H. Lacey William R. Parient Dwight Stull Paul L. Brewer William F. Guyer C. L. Lash Otto Purcell Earl W. Sweeney Donald A. Broeking Joseph Hamblen Alex P. LeVay W. F. Quebe Charles K. Torrey Arthur V. Brown Francis L. Harding L. L. Lewis Wayne Renbarger Billy I. Trippet Enos Virgil Cassidy James R. Harrell Earl B. Lockridge Hugh E. Rhodes J. A. Trowbridge Louis H. Chaney R. N. Hart Don Lyon F. H. Richardson Clarence E. Ullman Kenneth Christopher George M. Hays Cletus Martin Robert M. Ripple Fred J. Walden Randall E. Clark Fred D. Helm Ellsworth Martin Kenneth V. Roberts Floyd Weber C. B. Cochran Lee M. Helmer W. Courtney Martin Allen J. Rodibaugh Edward G. Wetzel Carol F. Cohee Hubert L. Higgins George J. Mason J. E. Roembke John H. Winchell Robert J. Conley Roy H. Hildebrand Howard A. Mattson Marion Rohm Harry P. Wood Thomas S. Cornell Robert Holman Fred C. Melcher Donald O. Ruh K. W. Wysong A. R. Cowell Clarence F. Hotler Jack H. Moore Helmar Schaich William J. Yeager H. C. Crabtree Charles E. Howard Raymond K. Morrical I. H. Schermerhorn H. A. Zorn A. E. Crosbie Charles Hunnell, Jr.

Page Sixteen :: OUTDOOR INDIANA THE EDITOR'S PAGE

The War and Conservation located. Joe Marietta, Jr., secretary, reports that every member of the club is buying War Bonds and Indiana's conservation program has been geared that the club has donated $113 to the Red Cross in to the war effort in every way that a contribution addition to active support of the Civilian Defense can be made to the nation's success. Services of program and sending cigarettes and other gifts to the Conservation Officers were made available to club members now in the service. There are 175 Governor Schricker last December and members members in this active organization. of this staff are ready for any emergency duty which may be assigned. Operations of the depart- ment have been streamlined for more effective per- It's a Stubborn Tree formance of the duties and the services which are Sassafras trees spring up where not wanted but its responsibility. More than forty employees of are very difficult to transplant; live when you want the department, including specialists in conserva- them to die; die when you want them to live. A tion work, are now in the armed forces. very stubborn tree but good game food. There will be no slackening of the support of the war program or the contributions toward success- ful prosecution of the war. But in this period of emergency, the conservation of Indiana's natural Department of Conservation resources is not being overlooked although inaugu- ration of some of the measures which are desirable must be postponed for the duration. The leaders in conservation are looking ahead, planning for future generations' enjoyment of the natural re- The following employees of the Depart- sources which are important in peace as in war. ment of Conservation are now in the armed services of the United States: After Two Months Division of Fish and Game The May issue of OUTDOOR INDIANA carried a Laurence Rolli John Walkey card which readers were to sign and return if they Rodger Higgins Alvin Shank John Schlagenhauf Ernest Clauser desired to continue receiving this publication. The Paul Risser Omer Swisher June issue repeated the warning that only those Edgar Bennett Everett Fry from whom a request had been received would George Miller Eldon Clark receive the July and subsequent monthly issues. Wilbur Alberding Wain Westfall Thousands of readers have sent in their cards Don F. Bline Gene Wilson Maurice Reeves and hundreds have taken the time to write letters expressing their appreciation of OUTDOOR INDIANA Division of State Parks and the conservation program. Undoubtedly there Carl Jeffries Ralph Hough are others who have neglected to return the card Clyde O'Neal Tom Cravens or to ask that they continue to receive OUTDOOR Lloyd Rayhill Cecil L. Cox INDIANA. They can get future issues by filing their Newton Yost Eddie Valentine James Krieger Ross Hamilton request and indicating their interest in and sup- Lloyd Wampler port of the conservation program. Division of Forestry Fishing Brings Business Waldimar Hanson Cornell Kemper Henry A. Beadell Theodore Davis Hoosiers are awakening to the fact that the im- Donald Wilson Paul A. Yost provement in fishing which has resulted from the Charles Martin Robert Spain conservation program brings business into In- Division of Geology diana. Each year an increasing number of fishing John R. Harris Willis L. Smith licenses are issued to residents of other states who have come into Indiana to fish and spend their Division of Engineering vacations. License agencies established in neigh- Harold L. Ballard Claude Coyne boring states report a boom in business this year Division of Entomology as residents of those states prepare for fishing James Clark trips and vacations in Indiana. Conservation Officers Blanford Club Active Larkin Ferguson Ted Overholser James Hughes Vincent Silver Members of the Blanford Conservation Club Carl Laker Charles White point with pride to their fine clubhouse and their Albert Watson 33-acre tract of land on which three ponds are ND ANA "Playground of the Middlewest"

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McCormick's Creek State Park. i2 - . : IIb Muscatatuck State Park. 4 10 e0 . 113 . Pokagon State Park.I '- Clark County State Forest and r Nursery. 1,1 1" Kankakee State Game Preserve. I4 Brown County State Game 6.19 11n Preserve. . ., 33 Bass Lake State Fish Hatchery.. -. ,15 34 Wawasee State Fish Hatchery. o '--.. Tri-Lakes State Fish Hatchery. I 1 Riverside State Fish Hatchery. o Avoca State Fish Hatchery. 4 0 Deam Oak. I- Tippecanoe Battlefield. - 2'Io Corydon State Capitol.me I 6 James F. D. Lanier Memorial. 62 Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial. Shakamak State Park. . Pigeon Roost Memorial. The Mounds State Park. i Morgan-Monroe State Forest. 3 3 8' Jasper-Pulaski State Game ry._2, Preserve. b Brown County State Park. - Harrison County State Forest. Jackson County State Forest.

Martin County State Forest. . 0 Scales Lake State Forest. .. n2 .... . Bass Lake Beach. . d b - Salamonie River State Forest. 15 246 I 5 Wells County State Game Preserve 9 ° ' .. 7 " and Forest. -D. - . 2eo2646 Greene-Sullivan State Forest. Pike County State Forest. - Frances Slocum State Forest. 36 ." °b " Constitution Elm. 26 Fawn River State Fish Hatchery. Driftwood State Fish Hatchery. 29 21 41 6«.e " ewow Hovey Lake State Game Preserve. ° 4 °""- 2 _ xw "43 3' Welltat GaeConty Prsere 41 . ' 8 f snwm Martin County Land Use Forest. 22 and Forest.

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