J.G. Hall 1952 June 25 Independence Lake, Sierra Co., Calif. 2 PM Arrived with Glenn Flittner at NE end of lake via truck. Weather threatening. Started down lake in motor boat to pick up gill net set previous day on N shore about half- way down. As soon as we started off, a real hail storm descended and we could see it was especially violent at SW end. Hauled in gill net which had 10 suckers (a couple c start of breeding coloration), 1 Ryb mt. Whitefish, 2 Brook Trout and 1 tremendous Brownie which weighed 6 1/4 lbs. This net was in 35' of water. Storm let up by this time & we pushed on to end of lake where 6 fisher- men were taking cut-throats illegally (within 300 ft of the inlet). The cut-throats are in the inlet beginning to prepare to spawn as the boy saw over 50 fish in the shal- lows of the gravel, some singly, some in pairs and one pair making a nest. Glenn + 2 worked right up to the beaver colony which is about 500 yds upstream. This colony is located in a grove of very large, old aspen, some 2' in diam. Many large trees have been cut or are being cut; one I photographed had an estimated diam. of 16" at the top of the cut + 2' at the