Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-06
FOR UNIFORMITY
Of GAME LAWS
BLANKET BILL TO BE REPORTED
SIMPLIFYING AND SYSTEMA-
THING REGULATIONS.
MAKE JUNE OPENING DAIE
FOR GAME FISH
SEASON.
Madison, May 5.

Madison, May 5.
! 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 ana
game bill which is practically com
pleted and win be reported III to the
ASSEMBLY Tor passage this week.
The fish and game committee has
labored for weeks over this bill, in an
efor, 10 incorporate in it the good
points found in the various bills re-
| ferTed 10 the committee since the SEES
sion opeled The completed bin is
! pronounced by members who have
seen it to be the best game statute
ever reported to the Wisconsin legis
| lame. The measure has been draft
ed systemau cally. each phase of sport
beng treated separately and com
| pletely in a section by itself. Onder
existing game laws, which in pamph-
let form present a patchwork con-
| glomeration of sections, a sportsman
desiring to post himself on deer
| hun ing has to search the book from
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
sAall open on the same day In every
part of the state, June / being ,ne
| time Sc. This section, however,
does not remove the ban on certain
lakes throughout the state which are
closed to fishermen for a term OF
years. Under old laws the pike sea
son opened May Is and the bass sea
son June 10. The difference in
dates made many a law-abidng and
respectable citizen a negative vioatOr
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 10 make
the opening Of the fishing season unl-
form in ali 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 20 in all coun.
ties Of The state. The ban is re-
moved on Ashland, Bayfield,, Douglas
Outagamfe, Marinette, Brown, La
Crosse and some other counties
where prairie shooting has been pro
hibited. Provision is made for .-.e
closing of he chicken and grouse sea
son October /, while partridge may be
hunted up to December /
The hunting 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 viii contain but one coupon,
instead OF two, as for years past. In
an effort to conserve the deer in the
northern woods the committee decid.
ed to allow each hunter to kin but
one Of the feet 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 90