Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-12
FOR UNIFORMITY
OF GAME LAWS
BLANKET BILL TO BE REPORTED
SIMPLIFYING AND sYsTEMA-
THING REGULATIONS.
MAKE JUNE OPENING DATE
FOR GAME FISH
SEASON.
Madison. May )


Radical changes in existing game
laws, tending to make restrictions
uniform in various parts of the state
and to conserve game in Wisconsin,
are provided in the blanket fish and
game bill which is practically com
pleted and will be reported in to the
assembly for passage this week.
The fish and game committee has
labored for weeks over this bill, in an
effort to incorporate in it the good
points found in the various bills re-
ferred to the committee since the ses-
pronounced by members who have
seen it to be the best game statute
ever reported to the Wisconsin legis'
lature. The measure has been draft
ed Systematically, each phase of sport
being treated separately and com
| pletely in a section by itself. Under
existing game laws, which in pamph-
| let form present patchwork con-
| glomeratiOn of sections, sportsman
desiring to post himself on deer
cover to cover to get thoroughly in
formed. This committee bill has
everything about deer in section by
| itself and all the other subjects are
| treated in the same manner.
Perhaps the most important provis-
ion of the substitute bill is the desig-
nation that the game fishing season
shall open on the same day In every
| part of the state, June 1 being Lne
time set. This section, however,
does not remove the ban on certain
lakes throughout the state which are
closed to fishermen for term OF
years. Under old laws the pike sea-
son opened May 25 and the bass sea-
son June 10. The difference in
dates made many law-abiding and
of the law, for these are mighty few
| followers of Isaac Welton who will
throw a bass back in the creek acct
dentally hooked while fishing for
pike, unless the game warden is
| looking. 1t was in recognition of this
frailty of human nature that the com
mittee deemed it advisable to make
the opening of the fishing season unt
| form in all parts of the state
! A uniform bird shooting provision
is another important section of the
| bill. 1t provides that prairie chick
ems, grouse and partridge may be
shot after September 40 in all coun-
ties of the state. The ban is re-
moved on Ashland, Bayfield,, Douglas
Outagamie, Marinette, Brown, La
Crosse, and some other counties
where prairie shooting has been pro-
hibited. Provision is made for ne
closing of the chicken and grouse sea-
son October 1, while partridge may be
hunted up to December 1.
The hun ing season for all classes
of game which can be hunted under
existing laws will open ten days later
than for several years past, the new
date being September 10. :.
Deer hunters throughout the state
will be interested in learning that
their license this fall, if this BIN is
passed, will contain but one coupon,
instead of two, as for years past. In,
an effort 10 conserve the deer in the,
northern woods the committee &eeidi-
ed to allow each hunter to kill but
one OF the fleet footed denizens OF
the forest. Only the old experienced
hunter will suffer under this provis-
ION. as the modern sportsman who
Tells one deer considers himself in
luck and is content to start back to
the city with the carcass at once. The
| open season for deer remains at TWEEN.
ty days, from November 10 to go.