The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
PLAN STATES AID
TO PRESERVE DEER.
MICHIGAN HUNTERS WOULD PRO
TECT ANTLERED TRIBE.
Movement Begins to Ask Legislature
to Set Aside Large Tract of Land
Where Game Can Remain Unmolest-
ed and Check Possible determination
Urge Amendment OF Game Laws.
Special to The Journal.

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Jan. 15.-Owing to
the rapid killing Of the deer in the upper PENN
sula, the hunters and citizens generally of this
port Of the state are planning to ask the legis-
lature to set aside big tract Of land where
the antlered tribe can breed without molestation.
In this way, it is claimed, the deer will continue
to increase, while If the present rate of slaugh.
ter Is maintained the animals will be all but
eXterminated by the end Of another decade.
Supporters of the scheme favor making the
game preserve twenty-five miles square. 1t would
be fenced, SO the animals could not leave and
no hunting would be allowed at any season OF
the year inside the lines Thus big forest
would grow up and the state would have, in
some particulars, park as interesting as Vel
1owstone. -,,-. .-se .#..,--.. ,' st.
1t Is proposed to take over part Of Chip.
pewa, Luce and Mackinac counties, and it is
believed the land could be acquired at reason
able figure, as in localities large tracts have
been allowed to revert to the state because Of
non payment Of taxes.
new game laws passed at the last session of thu
legislature, concerted action by all the countie,
of the upper peninsula ts expected when thu
next session is held at Lansing. While tn,
southern counties get the most benefit from thu
present license law, the northern counties, il
| OF der to protect the game, expend annually thou
sands of dollars in county game warden sala
rtes. This Is deemed an unjust law and a,
| amendment will be offered
Change License System.
Under the present law the hunter takes gu
his license In the county in which he lives. Par
Of the fees obtained 60 to that county. MIN
out Of ten hunters come from the south, yet tn
southern counties do not have to spend none,
for the protection of game. The amendment will
call for the issuance of an Identification licens
| in the county in which the Nimrod lives. whic
| will cost % cents. He ,jwill then take out hi
hunting license in the county in which he hunts
! and thus the counties will receive fees that vii
| to a certain extent compensate them for the ex
pense entailed in protecting the deer from vic
| lators Of the law.
The movement was inaugurated in Marquett
county, where $1,000 Is spent annually in salarie
| for game wardens It has spread to other cou1
ties and the feeling against the present law
mutual. Unless the law Is amended no NOR
! money will be spent by the upper peninsula
protecting game for. outsiders to kill.
When the legislature took up the matter
! changing the game laws it paid no attention
| recommendations from people who lived In tt
deer country. Every suggestion made by Gam
Warden Charles H. Chapman was turned dow
! and the law was made to benefit the farmin
| sections and the cities Of the southern pal
Of, the state, claim the people north of tn
| straits. Northern Michigan people say the gam
laws are unjust, in that they protect member
Of urban clubs in preference to the people wi
live where the game is found. As result Of Il
| feeling a: lively tilt is expected at LANSING