Journal 13 Mayhew 1948 March 13 8 miles west of Gridley, Butte Co., Calif. Today noon saw our Zoology 145 class leave the Berkeley campus for Gray Lodge Refuge in Butte Co. After a short walk around the duck ponds about sun-down, John Cowan, Assistant Game Manager in charge of the refuge talked to us, giving us the following information: The refuge consists of 26,000 acres, 16,000 acres of which are under water. There is a 50-50 ratio of open water + tule. They have planted water grass, rice, + wheat to help feed the waterfowl. Mallards + Cinnamon Teal are the principal nesting on the refuge. It is estimated that 2,000,000 ducks occur on the refuge at one time occasionally. Banding waterfowl is going to be one of their larger projects this spring. Then Howard Twining, Assistant Game Biologist in charge of the Pheasant project for California Fish + Game told us the following about pheasants: The pheasant population hit its peak about 1943. By 1945 the population was on the down- grade. A man was assigned to find out whether poisoning blackbirds had done anything to the pheasant population. It was found that pheasants couldn't be killed with the poison bait that was being used for blackbirds under normal