Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-08-15
PROTECTION
BY GOV[R|lM[N
Spring Shooting Prohibited.
Also Night Slaughter While
Feeding or Roasting.

t1lOV Vl9lsS Otou9lOlOs vvtInC
Feeding or Roasting.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for the protection Of migratory game
and insectivorous birds are hereby es-
tablished:
Zone No. 1.-The breeding zone, COM
prising states lying wholly or in part
north of latitude 40 degrees and the
Ohio river and including Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts.
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio. In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin.
Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota South.
Dakota, Nebraska, COLORADO, Wyom-
ing. Montana, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington -twenty-f1 states. s.
Zone No. 2.--The wintering zone,
comprising states lying wholly or in
part south of latitude 40 degrees and
the Ohio river and including Delaware.
Maryland, the District Of Columbia.
West Virginia, Virginia. North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida.
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee. Ken
lucky. Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana.
Texas. Oklahoma, Kansas: New Mex
leo, Arizona. California. Nevada and
Observation-Disclosures states and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Aim Of Statute.
In carrying out the statutory re-
quirement Of due regaN to the zones
Of temperature, breeding habits, times
and line Of migratory fight" the fol-
lowing are some OF the more important
principles on which the regulations
were based. according to the commit
tee;
To limit the list Of migratory game
birds to species properly so called and
to eliminate species too small to be
considered legitimate game or too rare
to be longer hunted for sport or profit.
This list has been made to conform as
closely as possible with the statutory
definitions of game.
To prevent spring shooting.
To protect migratory birds between
sunset and sunrise.
To provide protected flight lines
along at least three Of the great navi-
gable rivers.
To make the seasons approximately
equal IN length in different parts Of
the country.
To limit the hunting seasons to a
maximum Of three or three and one
half months > rs.
TO regulate these seasons according
to latitude and times of migration and
to adjust them SO that there may be
reasonable opportunity of securing
thirty days shooting of any species at
a given place.
Te provide separate seasons for wa
terfowl, rail-. shore birds and wood
cock. The woodcoc,s SEASONS are made
to conform as nearly 5as possible with
the seasons for upland game under
state laws. so that there may be 10
opportunity IN close seasons to hunt
quail or grouse under the guise Of
shooting woodcocl.
To curtail hunting at the end instead
Of the beginning Of the open season,
in the interest Of both the birds and
the sportsmen.
Eject ofsRegulations. 81
The probable effect Of these regula-
lions may be briefly stated as follows:
u Uniformity IN protection Of mi
gratory and insectivorous birds in the
several states.
e. Protection of birds In spring
while en- route to their nesting grounds
and while mating. 55,z
81 Uniformity in protection Of mi
gratory birds at night
grafton routes along three great rivers
IN the central United States.
(5) Complete protection for five years
for the smaller shore birds ana other
species which have become greatly re-
duced in numbers.
(0 Reduction of the open season on
mfgra tory game birds. but In most
cases not more than % to 80 per cent
(O No change in existing conditions
before Oct. 1, 1918.
Although the law names the more
game birds. q regulation de-
timing groups is necessary to shsw def
nftely the kinds Of birds included un-
der the terms ..all other migratory
game and insecuvorous birds. In
framing these definitions the statutory
definitions OF the various shate laws
have been followed as closely as posi-:
BILE. IN 30 far as they relate to migra-
tory species; the birds have been arr
ranged in natural groups and the COM
mon names adopted BY the American
ornithologists' union have. been follow.
ed when the birds have more than one
common name. since 1t 3 obviously
impracticable to include MI the local
names. SIS;
Night Shooting.
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