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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga6_1920cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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142 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. knoAvn, all four species are native to the head waters of the Kern River; Tlie distinctive eharaeteristics (tf llicse diversified types is more readily appreciated if the geofyra.jihical isolation of their habitat is understood. It has been stated tliat the Kern trout, Salmo gilhcrti, is the parent species of the golden trout, antl as may be inferred from the name, is native to the Kern River. This i-iver is of considerable
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Fig. 37. Agua-boiiita Falls on Vokaiio Creek, tlie stream wiiiih is the original home of the golden trout. Photograph by W. Y. Kellogg. Avidth and flows through a most inspiring, deep, rugged, high Sierran canyon, and in ages past, when the glacial period wrought its stupen- dous changes, the Kern River trout, native then to not only the Kern River but to its tribntory streams—VMcano Creek, South Fork of the Kern and the Little Kern and Soda Creek—became isolated in these different streams by the formation of unsurmountable barriers, and each group being acted upon Iw the inlluences of its own peculiar environment, with no opportunity for interbreeding of groups, resulted,

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