Region III: Calvert, Charles, Prince George's and St. Mary's Counties.

Arthur D. Jones, Regional Game Warden
Phillip D. Lines, Wildlife Field Superintendent.

Region IV: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil and Harford Counties.

E. C. Kerns, Regional Game Warden
George D. P. Patterson, Wildlife Field Superintendent.

Region V: Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties
James W. Ivens, Jr., Regional Game Warden
Howard Robert Zeller, Wildlife Field Superintendent.

Region VI: Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester Counties.

Battie Mixon, Regional Game Warden
John Warren, Wildlife Field Superintendent.

The Department of Game and Inland Fish is associated with the
Board of Natural Resources. The present Department, established in
1943, supersedes the Game and Inland Fish Commission and the
Game and Inland Fish functions of the Conservation Department.
The Department of Game and Inland Fish is under the direction of
a commission of five members appointed by the Governor from the
several geographical regions of the State. The term of each member
is five years, one term expiring each year. The Commission elects a
chairman and a Vice-Chairman from its membership, and appoints
the Director of the Department. The Commission has the power to
promulgate such rules and regulations as it deems necessary for the
conservation of the resources in its charge. Such rules may restrict,
extend or enlarge the terms of the game and fresh water fish laws.
The Department enforces the game and fresh water fish laws and
such additional regulations as it enacts. It also receives the proceeds
from the sale of angling and hunting licenses, these funds being used
to finance the activities of the department (Code 1947, Art. 89,
sec. 3)..

As of June 30, 1947, the Department owned game farms and ref-
uges totaling 10,629 1/2 acres. It. has under lease another 12,774. The
Department also operates State-owned game farms as follows:
Gwynnbrook State Game Farm in Baltimore County, Wicomico State
Game Farm in Wicomico County, Montgomery County Game Farm,
and Washington County Game Farm. At these plants large numbers
of bobwhites, chukar partridges, wild ducks and wild turkeys are
raised..

During the period from 1940 to 1946, the Department purchased
and developed the following wildlife demonstration areas: Indian
Springs, 1,265 acres; Idylwild, 521 acres; Millington, 561 acres;
Girdletree, 550 acres; Wellington, 380 acres; and the LeCompte, 479
acres. All of these refuges were acquired under the Federal Aid in
Wildlife Restoration Act..

In April 1946 a State-wide cooperative farm-game project in co-
operation with the Soil Conservation Service and other agencies was
approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service and is now being carried
on in all twenty-three counties of Maryland. Another land use prac-
tice in Maryland which has resulted in direct benefit to many species
of wildlife is the development and maintenance of over 100,000 acres
of State forest lands in cooperation with the Department of Forests
and Parks..

In several sections of Maryland special emphasis has been placed
on refuges giving protection to critically reduced species, particularly
wild turkeys, wild waterfowl and the Bryant fox squirrel..