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Goose Lake
320.
Aug 5, 1932
Goose Lake was not visited, as I had intended to do, because various people in La Verne whom I interviewed said that it was almost gone. Last year it was dry. This year there is some water in it, left no birds near there. It used to be a great place for nesting geese & ducks and provided wonderful hunting. The land over most of its lake bed has been reclaimed for farming.
Klamath Lakes
Aug 6, 1932
Lower Klamath, the once great nesting place of the pelican is dry and has been so for 15 years, according to local report. I counted 100 white pelicans on Link River by the bridge about dusk last night. Fish were jumping all over the water's surface & Farallon Cormorants were feeding there too, as well as a number of ducks too far down to identify. This morning I drove to the north end of Klamath Lakes and also to the dam in Link River behind the town.