Region IV: Baltimore, Cecil and Harford Counties
David J. Smith, Regional Game Warden
Marvin S. Myers, Wildlife Field Superintendent

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

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Region VI: Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester Counties

J. P. Smith, Regional Game Warden
John Warren, Wildlife Field Superintendent

The Department of Game and Inland Fish, established by Chapter
354, Acts of 1939, superseded the Conservation Department. The De-
partment is associated with the Board of Natural Resources and is
directed by a non-salaried five-man Commission, appointed by the
Governor from the several geographical regions of the State for five-
year terms, 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 Department enforces the game and
fresh water fish laws and such additional regulations as it enacts
for the conservation of the resources in its charge. Such rules may
restrict the terms of the game and fresh water fish laws (Code 1957,
Art. 66C, sees. 14, 111-233).

The Department being a Special Fund Agency, receives its total
operational funds from the sales of hunting and angling licenses,
fines, sale of products from Department-owned lands, and nominal
assistance from the United States Government, under the provisions
of the Federal Aid in Fish and Wildlife Restoration Acts.

As of June 1961, the Department-owned game management areas,
refuges, and community fishing lakes totaled 40,783.8 acres. Among
these are Gwynnbrook State Game Farm, in Baltimore County, and
Montgomery State Game Farm in Montgomery County. At Belle
Grove State Game Farm in Allegany County 1,500 wild turkeys are
propagated annually and released on suitable range in Western
Maryland and Worcester County. In addition, the Department leased
many other areas which are managed under the Maryland Coopera-
tive Farm Game Program.

In all sections of Maryland, the Department has especially empha-
sized habitat improvement on private and public lands for the pur-
pose of increasing wildlife populations. In cooperation with the De-
partment of Forests and Parks, it manages wildlife populations on
more than 100,000 acres of State Forests.

The Commission owns and operates a fresh water fish hatchery for
trout at Beaver Creek in Washington County, It also owns and op-
erates trout rearing stations at Bear Creek, Garrett County, and
Lewistown in Frederick County. A warm water fish rearing station
is located and operated near Elkton, in Cecil County. Approximately
100 major surface water areas, containing more than five acres each,
have been stocked with warm and cold water species and over 100
streams received quotas of commercially purchased or State-hatchery
reared fish annually.

The Department rears over 100,000 (30,000 lbs.) adult trout, (brook,
brown, and rainbow) each year and 75,000 fingerings. It also rears
approximately 26,000 fingerling smallmouth bass with fingerling
large-mouth bass and bluegills for over 500 farm ponds annually.
To supplement this fish rearing and stocking program, the Depart-
ment each year purchased over 50,000 largemouth bass, crappie and
walleyes and bluegills for release into our warm waters as brood
fish and for public fishing.