Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-04-27
Idaho Game Laws.


The following is a synopsis of the
game laws past at the last session of
the legislature, and is taken from the
Free Press:
Females and childred under the age
of IL years, residents of Idaho, and
veterans of the civil war, are not re-
quired to procure license to fish and
take game.
All licenses expire March 31st next
following the date of issue.
FISH.
Open season. Fish may be caught
at any time of the year with the hook
and line attached to a pole or held in
the hand, except between the first day
of April, and the first day of May.
Taking Of any kind of fish with a seine,
net weir, spear, fence, basket, trap,
gillnet or dipnet is absolutely prohibited
with few exceptions.
1t is unlawful to take fish by the use
of deleterious drug or with explosives;
to kill or destroy or to have in posses
sion at any time, any trout or black
bass less than inches in length; to
catch more than 20 pounds of trout,
bass, catfish, grayling or sunfish in any
one day or to have more toan 80 pounds
of such fish in possession at one time; to
sell trout, black bass, grayling, catfish
or sunfsh.
BIRDS:
Open season. Sage hen and turtle
dove. July Is to Dec. 1; sage hen and
turtle dove Fremont county only
Aug. Is to Dec. 1; quail, Nov. 1 to
Dec. l; partridge, pheasant or grouse
Aug. Is to Dec. l; partridge, pheasant
or grouse (north of Salmon river only,
Sept. l to Dec. l; snipe, plover, ducks
aad geese, Sept. to Feb, 1.
Bird limit. 1t is unlawful to kill
more than IL of each of the following
birds in any one day: Sage hen, par
fridge, pheasant and grouse, or more
than 18 quail or more than "a turtle
doves, "a ducks, "a snipe, "a plover or
geese.
1t shall be unlawful for any person to
kill bag of more than "a birds in any
one day or to have in his possession
more than "a birds of any kind at any
one time; to snare or entrap any pro-
tected bird, to destroy nests, eggs or
young birds of any of the game birds
or their young during the breeding
Season.
1t is unlawful to take Chinese, Eng
lish or Monaghan pheasants, or prairie
chicken, or pinnated grouse at any
time of the year.
1t is unlawful to kill swan for per-
iod of five years.
BIG GAME.
Open season. Deer, elk, mountain
goat, mountain sheep; Sept. : to Dec
l; deer within the counties of Bonner
Kootenai, Shoshone, Latah, Nez Perez
Clearwater and Idaho, Sept 20 to Dec
20. Elk within the counties of Fremont
and Bingham Cor in such territory as
was included in these counties on Jan
l, 1919, from Sept. to Dec. 81.
1t is unlawful to kill or capture more
than one elk, two deer, one mountain
sheep, one mountain goat and one ibe,
during the open season. The killing Of
moose, antelope, buffalo, beaver o,
caribou is absolutely prohibited.
1t is unlawful to kill elk within the
/ Counties Of Bonner Kootenai, Sho
shone, Latah, Nez Perez, Clearwater
. and Idaho for a period of five years
to hunt elk, deer, mountain sheep
mountain goat or ibex with dogs or by
means of pitfali, trap. snare or deer
. lick.
1t is unlawful to sell any protected
animal or bird or to ship any gam,
within or without the state until al
affidavit has been made by the person
killing the same; such affidavit may b,
secured from any deputy game wardel
at a cost of fifty cents.
Heavy penalties are provided for an,
: violations of any of tie above laws.
!; All aliens classed as non-residents