The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1910-11-11
SOME EXTRACTS FROM REPORT
OF GAME woROEN THAT
WILL INTEREST
FRIENDSOF FISHAND GAME
Cites Neighbor State of Minnesota as
Being Worthy of Copying in
Ideal Laws for Game
and Fish

Pferre-State Game Warden w. F
Bancroft, has just issued his annual
report for the year ending June 80,
1910, which is CompreIe .sive and
touches upon all met ers perta:ni g
TO his department, and will in erest
all true sports and those int estei in
the protection and proIa .allon or
game.
The report a Y in part:
The last legislature. in recognizing
this fact by passing practically a new
game and fish law and C eating the
Office of state game warden-:n fast,
a department of game and fish, only
rightly followed in the footsteps OF
other prog essive states that ave ear
lier recognized the necesst y 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 tetter results
may be obtained. The enforcement
of the existing laws has been as good
as could be expected. In some com
ties the law has been 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 "weeied'
out by the state game warden.
Zone thing certain. South DAKOTA
must follow in the footsteps of M n
nesota-one of the most progress i've
states in the west when 1t ONE TO
protecting game birds and ANNA s.
and that is to prohibit the spring
shooting of migrating wa erfowl.
1.-The recommendations made in this
report for needed amendments to the
present laws are made solely to m
! prove the laws and to make the laws
more effective for the better enforce
ment and still greater propagation of
our game-both large and small-and
fish as well. The present came ard
fish laws now on our statute books
should all be codifed into n general
law, as there are at present many
conflicting as well as inconsistent sec-
tons. Solely on this account are many
of the provisions almost impo sib e II
make hold good in the courts, n as
a consequence county game wardens
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
have been. Only seyenty-fve 65)
arrests and twenty-seven CID seiZ-
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 sta.es
attorneys have been lax in their pros
ecution. In a few cases the faul has
been with the county game warden In
not securing sufficient evidence upon
which to make a good case.
However, i look for a much better
enforcement of the law during the
coming year, as many county game
wardens were before new at TIE bust
ness. but are better posted and
more experienced in dealing with
game and fish vi~olators. The st tie
game warden expects to personally
cover a much larger territory this sea
son than ever before. using an auto for
this purpose. In this come ton |
would urge an amendment to the pres
ent law establishing an Office deputy.
in order that the office work may be
~properlv looked after during the alb
sence of the state game warden on
field work"
Of the se~venty-ive arrests made,
fines were paid in siyty-five, and two
were dismissed, the other being tound
not guilty.
The number of hunting licenses was
as follows.
Resident hunting licenses, 20 le9,
bringing in s26.169. Non sident IL
censes for small game. 1873. in cash
50. 745: nonresident, big game, II, in
cash. 5000. Nonresident fishing IL
censes. 81: in cash, SCI. Non-Fe7 ident
trapping licenses. /; in cash, $1,000.
The largest numfer of hunting IL
eenses was issued in Day county, l.
e5e: the smallest in Gregory county, 5.
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