The Commission now owns and operates a fresh water fish hatchery
at Lewistown, Frederick County, where trout and black bass are
propagated in captivity. It also owns and operates trout rearing sta-
tions at Bear Creek in Garrett County and Beaver Creek in Wash-
ington County..

Publications: Since 1944 the Reports of the Department of
Game and Inland Fish have been published with the Report
of the Board of Natural Resources..

Appropriations: 1948 1949
Hunting and Angling Fees $426,071.00 $414,919.00
Federal Grants 37,021.00 37,021.00.

Total $463,092.00 $451,940.00
Anticipated Receipts: 1948 1949
Game Fund . $320,662.00 $320,717.00
Anglers Fund $105,409.00 $ 94,202.00.

Balance on Hand:.

Game Fund $533,333.60
Anglers Fund $204,230.64.

Staff: 86..

DEPARTMENT OF STATE FORESTS AND PARKS.

The Commission:.

Chairman: John M. Nelson, Jr., 1949.

Bernard I. Gonder, 1953; J. Miles Lankford, Maryland
Farm Bureau, 1950; J. Wilson Lord, Maryland State Grange,
1951; Sydney D. Peverley, 1952.
Joseph F. Kaylor, Director
H. C. Buckingham, State Forester.

Karl E. Pfeiffer, Assistant Director, Timber Management
Edward B. Ballard, Assistant Director, Recreation
Adna R. Bond, Assistant Forester
Findley Burns, Public Relations
David O. Prince, Roadside Trees.

State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone; Annapolis 2329.

DISTRICT OFFICES
District 1—Cumberland.

(Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Washington Counties)
William A. Parr, District Forester
Jack E. Paulhamos, Assistant District Forester
Joseph Frescolm, Assistant District Forester
Carl G. Heczko, Assistant District Forester
Elmer H. Upole, Supervisor
M. E. Martin, Supt. Savage River Forest
Cecil Ramsey, Supt. Potomac Forest
Harry Hartman, Supt. Swallow Falls Forest
Robert L. Palmer, Supt. Washington Monument. Park
Edward C. Whyte, Supt. Fort Frederick Park.