Region III: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's and St.

Mary's Counties

Fielder Crawford, Regional Game Warden
Philip D. Lines, Wildlife Field Superintendent
Charles H. Milton, Regional Fish Culturist (Regions
III & IV)

Region IV: Baltimore, Cecil and Harford Counties
Gordon L. Saunders, Regional Game Warden
Dale E. Sheffer, Wildlife Field Superintendent

Region V: Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties
James W. Ivens, Jr., Regional Game Warden
Howard R, Zeller, Wildlife Field Superintendent
Guy S. Rogers, Regional Fish Culturist (Regions
V & VI)

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

Vacancy—Regional Game Warden.
John Warren, Wildlife Field Superintendent

The Department of Game and Inland Fish, established in 1939 to
supersede the Conservation Department, is associated with the Board
of Natural Resources. The Department is directed by a nonsalaried
five-man commission appointed by the Governor from the several
geographical regions of the State for five-year terms, one term expir-
ing each year. The Commission elects a chairman and a vice-chair-
man from its membership and appoints the Director of the Depart-
ment. The Commission makes regulations for the conservation of
the resources in its charge. Such rules may restrict 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 1951, Art. 66C, secs. 14, 111-229).

As of June 1956, the Department-owned game farms and refuges
totaled 32,000 acres. It has leased many other areas, which are
managed under the Maryland Cooperative Game Program. The
State-owned game farms operated by the Department are as follows:
Gwynnbrook State Game Farm in Baltimore County, Montgomery
State Game Farm in Montgomery County, and Belle Grove State
Game Farm in Allegany County. At these farms wild ducks and
wild turkeys are propagated.

In all sections of Maryland the Department has especially em-
phasized habitat improvement on private and public lands for the
purpose of increasing wildlife populations. In cooperation with the
Department of Forests and Parks, it manages wildlife conservation
in more than 100,000 acres of State Forests.

The Commission now owns and operates a fresh-water fish hatchery
where trout are propagated. It also owns and operates trout.
rearing stations at Bear Greek in Garrett County and Lewistown in
Frederick County.

Ninety (90) major surface water areas containing more than five
(5) acres each have been stocked with warm or cold water fish species,
and over one hundred (100) streams receive quotas of commercially
purchased or State hatchery-reared fish during the year.

The Inland Fish Division raises nearly 100,000 (30,000 lbs.) adult
Trout each year and 75,000 fingerlings. It also raises approximately
25,000 fingerling Smallmouth Bass, together with fingerling Large-