Siskiyou Union High School - White and Gold Yearbook (Weed, CA)

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Si-IASTA Ni- T If NAL F' RES' Welding together the rugged Sierras to the east, the verdant Coast Range to the west, and the lake-bespattered Cascades to the north, the Trinity-Sacramento-Shasta divide is a diminutive of all three. Lying across the western half of the Shasta National Forest, this range of mountains rises to nearly 10,000 feet at its highest points and still may be crossed at innumerable places at an elevation of not more than 5000 feet. Be- cause of its ruggedness, though comparatively accessible, it has retained its primitive wildner- ness aspect. Many roads and trails cross it but none follow its castellated crest for any distance. Some forty-four lakes lie cradled in hidden re- cesses along its summit. Although few of these lakes are accessible by road, almost all can be reached by a hike of a few miles. All forty-four lakes are large enough and deep enough to support trout. Brown KLoch Levenl trout are to be found in a few of the lakes in this area, but Eastern Brook and Rainbow trout are far more common. Brook trout thrive in the colder waters and are able to spawn success- fully in springs on the lake bottoms. Rainbow spawn in streams flowing into or out of the lakes but many of 'these lakes do not havesuitable tributary streams. However, rainbow grow more ' BIG TWIN LAKE CLIFF LAKE

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SISKIYC U I-IISFCJFKICAL SOCIETY The above picture is of the original lookout b u i l d i n g on Eddy Gulch Mountain, south of Sawyers Bar. In front with binoculars, scanning the forest for signs of tire, is Miss Hally Daggett, the first woma n lookout in the U. S. Forest Service. This building has been replaced by a modern tower. A good road now leads to the base of the tower but when this building was in use the trip was by horseback. Miss Daggett is now retired and lives in Etna. A biography of her life as a lookout in the employ of the Forest Service will appear in an early publication of the Siskiyou Cou nty Historical Society. The Siskiyou County Historical Society is very much interested in obtaining' pictures of historical places of Siskiyou County or photographs of its pioneers. A very interesting album and library has already been started at the Siskiyou County Museum and anyone having pictures which portray either persons or customs of early days should file their copies there for safekeeping.

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Si-li-XS'l'I-X NATY NAL F' RES' PAN-SIZED TROUT rapidly than do brook trout and commonly attain a greater size. All of these lakes are frequently planted by the Department of Fish and Game. A study of these lakes over a period of years by the Department of Fish and Game shows that all other things being equal, small lakes produce more fish per surface acre than large ones and shallow water lakes produce more than deep water. However, some lakes contain more food and produce rapid growth of trout while others are poor in food. ln the latter class, especially when lightly fished, there is always danger of planting too many fish for the food supply, with a resulting population of stunted trout, none of which are big enough for food or sport. CRATER LAKE-MT. EDDY In this same wilderness the follower of lsaac Walton who prefers to do his fishing in the cas- cading waters of a mountain torrent will find 27 streams totalling 275 miles of wild water in which he can find rainbow in the small streams and rainbow and steelhead in the larger. Most of these streams are steep, cascading from pool to pool. Some are quite brushy and all pour down through heavy forests of conifers. There are other streams and other lakes within the Shasta National Forest where the fish- erman may catch Dolly Varden trout, large mouth bass and the newly imported Kamloop, but here in these granite lakes and timbered streams is the real rainbow paradise.