The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-25

''s' wright, 1908, by John Eiireth Watkins.
-lst as fall hunting season opens, here
ome news for Nimrod. who would
or psoting so. as well as for. the retired
'hl L ftsmen OF animal lover interested In
the aprotection of our wild fauna from the
vii nhunter and the game hog.
he Sstnce our last trusty shooting Irons
~ We taken down for the autumnal hunt
Coy new game laws OF interest TO the
ne E'srlcan hunter have been added to the
CoIsute books. To keep out Of durance
he Rand the clutches OF the laws mlnions
rod must needs note these new
The federal Congress has been
:, work. hammer and tongs. devisng
l@ 1 means for protecting our big game,
A.. the President has been setting aside
WL preserves, within which no hunter
al ~ hereafter pull trigger. Every state
oke stature sitting this year has consl!-
ani u new game laws. and two-thirds OF
lCenadian provinces have passed new
rs ,,s' New License Laws.
rsa his years addition of New York,
,,.i fleachusetts and Louisiana to the list
~ e-- ,fates requiring dollar licenses OF resi-
an hunters brings that coterie UP TO
L, R-ia also adopts resident license for the
g time, but Massachusetts Will not
to enforce II until next jan
These, license laws are being
sed on all states By the National AS
CHlhtion OF Audobon Societies. which is
DEMONSTRATING to the legislators ho% the
Ter may thus be made to pay for ef-
WElnt game protection Last year 1S0, 900
ters In Illinois paid 81 apiece for IL
les. and three quarters OF this amount.
year tl50. .000 was diverted to paying for
warden system. In California 100000
key. raised in the same way for game
,yaI,- lection. Hunters going out or their
,or states to shoot must take warning
III ,,,s Alaska, our greatest game paradise,
' In a new nonresident license OF 500,
usoa us that New York Louisiana and Brit
ITf.t,, - =.
President licenses. Non-residents can
C.. = now shoot without license In any
q except Georgia, Oklahoma, New
1co and Nevada.
Condition of Game.
cn list seasons observations OF the
Ted States biological survey. the ma
nrss.9s clearing house for game da:a,
we'd that our deer were increasing
everywhere. moose were show
te.-> an increase. elk were holding their
Nelsas few caribou were in upper Mn
ell 2ta, and that mountain sheep were
ders easing in Wyoming and the Yellow
lace ie. but that antelope had probably de-
,eth ~tsed Quail and bobwhites were on
Sc .easing. as were waterfowl. markedly,
woodcock showed q gain, hut prairie
sKens showed slight and ruifed
N, Nlse considerab Bile decrease, The
ogical survey VIII not attempt TO fore
The conditions for this season. as
In sS>much depends upon local conditions.
Dr. example, Wyoming had q severe
a s>fch last year which greatly decreased
in' antelope, while the ruffed grouse re-
1s had a very warm March followed
Fsv. an exceedingly cold and wet spring,
ds,s lvorable for the breeding of that now
yss,. hrce game bird. Two exceedingly cold
"a ters IN succession also greatly de-
,s,s >Sed our quail q few seasons back
sc domestic quail of the east have In
years been reduced by an epidemic
shog Slar 10 the grouse disease which cre-
great havoc In the grouse preserves
,ingland century ago. This is being
" hrptigated by the United States bureau
rimal Industry, which finds II to be.
to microbe that causes congestion
and We lungs, necrosis OF the liver and ul-
Zion OF the intestines 1t has never
,sT known 60 attack wild quail In the
-~1linas deer have lately been reduced
20 20 an epidemic OF black tongue" or
Selsa '''1i''' a'iectihg
protects Largest Game Mammal,
,.,,,tr largest surviving game mammal,
SeOs1 our largest caruivorous animal and
other valuable species of big game
protected In an important act Of the
,tEession OF congress. This new law.
rap ,ugh practically unnoticed hitherto, is
IA csHreat interest 10 the sportsman and
WV lralist, for II protects the game OF
- ihunter5 greatest paradise-Aiaska
er.~~f Dig knob on the northwest corner OF
syo .Tcontiuent offers to the hunter what
defs great unsettled west offered to our
n =. GERS. only more. Perhaps II we had
AZ ..fenthusiastic hunters at the helm OF
.nr In genera lions past vandals would