The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-11-11
SOME EXTRACTS FROM REPORT
OF GAME WORDEN THAT
WILL INTEREST
OF FISHAND GAME
Cites Neighbor State of Minnesota as
Being Worthy Of Copying in
Ideal Laws FOR Game
and Fish

EleTTe-otdte tame warden w. +.
Bancroft, has just issued his annual
report for the year ending June 80.
1910, which is comprehensive and
touches upon all meters pertaining
to his department, and will interest
all true sports and those int ested in
the protection and propagation o.
game.
The report says in part:
The last legislature, in recognizing
this fact by passing practically a new
game and fish law and c1eating the
office of state game warden-in fact,
a department of game and fish, only
rightly followed in the footsteps OF
other prog essive states that have ear
lier recognized the necessity Of bet
ter laws for the protection and propa-
cation OF our game and fish.
The results of the first years
workings of our game and fish laws
have proven satisfactory on the whole
but with needed legislation to amend
the present law still letter results
may be obtained. The enforcement
OF the existing laws has been as good
as could be expected. In some coun-
ties the law has beer Well enforced.
while in others the destruction OF
game and fish has>gone on nearly as
great as in former yeas, with but
few exceptions due to inefficient coun-
ty game and fish wardens be ng
recommended for appointment by the
different boards of county commission
ers, but they are fast being "weeded'
out by the state game warden.
"One thing certain. South Dakota
must follow in the footsteps Of NJ n
nesota-one of the most progressive
states in the west when it comes to
protecting game birds and ANNA s
and that is to prohibit the spring
shooting OF migrating waterfowl.
The recommendations made in this
report for needed amendments to the
present laws are made solely to i'm
prove tie laws and to mate the laws
more effective for the better enforce
ment and still greater propagation OF
our game-both large and small-and
fish as we'll. The present game a ID
fish laws now on our statute books
should all be codifed into one general
law. as there are at IRE ent many
conflicting as well as inconssten sec
lions. Solely on this account are many
Of the provisions almost impo sib G t.
make hold good in the courts. and as
a consequence county game wa"dens
find it almost impossible to do good
work along certain lines.
For the first years workings Of the
new game and fish law there have not
been as many arrests as your state
game warden believes there should
been. Only severty-hye 80
and tWenty-seven t27) selz-
ures were made. In many instan es
there has been a gross disregard OF
evidence submitted to justices of the
peace, while in other cases the sta1e's
attorneys have beer lax in their pros
In a few cases the fault has
been with the county game warden in
not securing sufficient evidence upon
which to make a good case.
However, | look for a much better
enforcement OF the law during the
year. as many county game
wardens were before new at the bust
ness. but are now better posted and
mere experienced in dealing with
and fish violators. The st tie
warden expects to personally
cover a much larger territory this sea
than ever before. using an auto for
this In this come ton |
would urge an amendment to the pres
law establishing an office deputy,
order that the Office work may be
properly looked after during the ah-
sence of the state game warden on
field work.
OF the seventy-fve arrests m de,
fines were paid in sixtv-five, and two
we're dismissed, the other being found
not guilty.
The number of hunting licenses was
as follows:
Resident hunting licenses. &c 1f9,
bringing in s26.16o. Nonresident Ii
,enses for small game. 1873. in cash.
LAS: nonresident, big game, II, IN
cash. $500. Nonresident fishing Ii
81: in cash. s61. Nonresident
trapping licenses, /; in cash, $1,000.
The largest number Of hunting Ii
,enses was issued in Day county. L.
,56: the smallest in Gregory county, ..
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