Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-12
PRESERVATION
 OF WILD GAME
PRESERVATION ... ... e. ... Subject Brought Up By the Presence Of the Open
 Season
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(By Victor ElIiottl

WASHINGTON, October 1I--With this month began the hunting season in the United States. October is the time for hunting deer, grouse. ana woodcock in the majority Of states where this kind of game abOunds. While many states open the duck sea son in September in several. shooting is deferred until October, and in Maryland and North Carolina until November.
 Maine. New York Michigan, Wis consin and Massachusetts are the principal deer hunting states in the north. In Maine the season opens the first of October, in Michigan on the 18th and in Minnesota and Wis consin on November 10th and l1th, respectively. The Michigan season ends on the 31st of November. New Hampshire opens it's deer season on October 1st, while Vermont's does not open until November 18th and New York's opens November l6th. In the south. Louisiana, which furnishes the best deer hunting, opens it's season on october lst, and the same is true of Montana. one of the chief deer hunt Ing states m the west
 Unprotected Birds.
 Of the states where the best runled grouse or partridge shooting may be had. the majority opens the season in October In New Hampshire. New York and Minnesota, shooting begins on the lst, in Massachusetts and in Michigan on the 18th As Maine, Vermont and Wisconsin opened theiT seasons in September it is now law ful to hunt rufled grouse anywhere along the northern border PeDnsyL yania is the only important ruffled grouse state which delays the open ing of it's season until November.
 Woodcock shooting commences iD October in seven states-New Ham, pshire. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The season is al ready open in Maine, Vermont, Mary, land. West Virginia, South Carolina and Indiana. and wi'l open later in l Delaware, Virginia and Louisiana This month, therefore, woodcock may be shot in practically all the re zion Of which it is an object Of sport
 Ducking begins this month on the shores of LCns Island, and m tho waters and marshes Of Virginia, Louisiana, California, Oregon, Utah, Colorado and Michigan,
 Quail shooting does not generally begin until November except in the west. where California and Oregon permit hunting after the middle oi October.
 Deer Statistics.
 Statistics of the number of deer killed are important for comparison with those Of previous years, in order to show the abundance or lack oi deer from year to year. Several oi the states provide for the gathreing of this information.
 It has been -ess than forty years since the first national park was es tablished and less than ten years since the national congress made the first appropriation for game preserva, tion, by authorizing the purchase O A small herd Of buffalo. From the creation of the Yellowstone NatiOna Park in 1872 the movement for the preservation Of wild life has made steady. and in recent years, rapit progress.
 
 Reservations have been created 10 insure preservation of big game; i'm portant breeding grounds for wild water fowls have been set aside as reservations and some reservations established for other purposes have been utilized for refuges for both birds and game. These refuges have been developed little by little, which though small in area, compared with some of the large parks in Canada ] and in some of the British colonies in Africa. compare fayoTably in othe, ! respects with most of the reservations 1 Of any foreign country. These re 1 fuges vary greatly The manner oi their creation and administration IS also different
 Game Preserves.
 The national game preserves, which ! are administered generally by the de partment of agriculture, comprise the Wichita and Grand Canyon preserves in Oklahoma and Arizona. and the na- tional bison range in Montana, and were set aside by special acts oi con ! gress. As indicated by their names they are established primarily TOT i the protection Of game. The Wichita game preserve has an area or ap- proximately 57.00O acres. i2,0O0 acres of which is a fenced buffalo pasture and about 10000 acres are enclosed by substantial wire fence.
 The executive departments Of the government have been doing then best to get congress to preserve tho game Of the United States with view not only to numbers but to va riety. Since 1905 fifty national bird re serves have been set aside by eXecu tive order and placed in charge ol the department of agriculture. Con gress has passed a special law for their preservation, and they are main tained by the biological survey in co operation with the national associa- ton of the Audubon society.
 These reservations are usually small
 but two in Oregon and one in Alaska each contain more, than 100000 acres and one in Hawaii includes a number Of islands extending through five de grees of longitude in the mid Pacific
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 Curtis-J. Y. Curtis. Jr