The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-16
OATES ISSUES
LAW SYNOPSIS
STATE GAME AND FISH LAWS Gl-
VEN IN BRIEF PAMPHLET
COMPILED BY SEC.
mARTlNDALE.

safe Game, Fish and Fire Warde
William r. oates has carried out n
plan he announced on his last visit
Calumet by sending out brief synor
sis Of the state game and fish law
The work was compiled by Secretary q
State Frederick c. Martindale. NJ Nj
oates's suggestion. and contains
brief statement of all laws which ar
IN effect. including those which becom
effective on August l. as well as thos
OF the old laws which have been re
tained. The pamphlet should go a loni
way toward clearing up any misun
Outstanding which may exist among IN,
sportsmen. II is as follows:
Game Animals.
MOOSE ELK and CARIBOU-Un.
lawful To kin until 1913.
ELK-Unlawful to kill until 1918 on
Bots Blanc Island.
DEER-Open season from october
- To November 30. inclusive. Resi-
dent hunters license $3.50: non-resi-
dent hunters license S25 Each license
expires twenty-five days after date of
issue.
Unlawful for any person to kin more
than two.
Unlawful to kin in red coat. or fawn
in spotted coat.
Unlawful to pursue. kill or capture
any deer while it is in the water.
Unlawful TO use dogs i'm hunting.
Unlawful to use artificial lights In
hunting.
Unlawful TO kill, until 1912, in Aren-
ac. Benzie Cheboygan, Emmett and Lee
lonau counties.
unlawful to kill until 1920. in Rerrien
Calhoun. Genesee. Ingham, Jackson.
Kalamazoo, Oakland and St Clair
counties
Unlawful to kill, until 1918. on Bots
Plano Island.
Unlawful TO knowingly trap. injure
or kin any deer or offspring which arc
kept in or have escaped from any pri
vate enclosure
RABBITS-Open season from Octo-
Der Is 10 March /, inclusive.
Unlawful to use ferrcts or Guinea
pigs in hunting.
Farmers and fruit growers may use
fcrrcts in killing rabbits on their en-
closed lands.
UIRRELe-Unlawful to hunt FOX. |
BLACK or GRAY until 1914.
Fur Bearing Animals.
BEAVER-Unlawful to kill until |
/. 1913.
BEAR, OTTER, FISHER. MARTIN. |
FOX, MINK, RACCOON and SKUNK
Unlawful to take trap or kill from APP
III l to November I.
MUSKRAT-Unlawful to take trap
n Kill from April II TO November I.
MUSKRAT or BEAVER HOUSES
Unlawful to destroy. disturb or modest
It any time, or set any trap within
Tx feet Of n muskrat house.
Unlawful 10 set or put out any
lmskrat traps preceding the day Of
he open season.
WOLF. LYNX AND WILDCAT
county for wolf over six months. S25:
or wolf under six months, $40: for
ynx, 81, for wildcat 49,
Game Birds.
QUAIf-Open season from October
3 TO November 30 inclusive
Unlawful to take more than ten in
ne day.
Unlawful to take more than fifty in
ne calendar year.
Unlawful TO have in possession more
han fifteen at one time.
PRAIRIE HICKEN-Unlawful to
i'll or capture at any time.
PARTRIDGE AND SPRUCE HEN
'pen season from October Is TO No
ember 80. inclusive.
Unlawful to take more than six in
ne day.
Unlawful to take more than fifty in
ne calendar year.
Unlawful to have in possession more
han fifteen I'm all at one time. Ii
EUROPEAN PARTRIDGE-Unla {
ii to kill until 1912. =
HOMING PIGEONS AND MOURN A
Nc DOVES-Unlawfu to capture or I
i'll at any time. II
MONGOLIAN (ENGLISH) PLEAS Ia
Mt, BLACK FOWL. CAPERCAIL- (
he, HAZEL GROUSE AND WILD
URKEY--Unlawful to hunt until (
)15.
Non Game Birds. q
Unlawful to kill. capture or have in &
Dssession, excepting Blackbirds. Eng q
SIN Sparrows, Crows. Cooper's Hawks. {
harp Skinned Hawks and Great Horn
! owls. Ii
Waterfowl.
DUCKS. SNIPE, PLOVER, WOOD
OCK, GEESE. BRANT. SHORE
IRDS, RAILS AND COOTS-Open '
JASON from October Is to December
!, inclusive. Blue Bin. Canvasback
ed Head, Widgeon, Plntail. Whistler, (
poonbill, Butterball and Sawbill ducks 4
ay also he hunted from March 2 To
pril 10, inclusive. Teal and Mallard II
lcks may be killed from September
To December 81, inclusive.
Unlawful To take I'm one day more y
ian twenty-five Ducks, Geese and
rant six Woodcock; ten Plover. ten
nipe and other Shore Birds.
Unlawful to take in one calendar Z