Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-10-31
NOVEL GAME LAWS
Enactments for Protection of
Wild Things.
Asasksd ~ FEATURE OF lsolslaflon -
Year Was Unusual Prooress IN
establishment Of Bird and
Game Refugee.

'D0Q&o COnSplCuOusiy eApoScus Ocoa iAo
the number OF their hunting license,
according to Bulletin No. 70 OF the de-
partment Of agriculture, setting forth
game laws of the United States and
Canada for 1913.
Hunters are required by the authori-
ties OF Manitoba to wear a White coat
or sweater and cap, while those who
hunt for big game in Saskatchewan
must wear q complete outer suit and
cap Of white.
Maine, New Jersey, North Dakota,
Washington. Mississippi, Louisiana,
Minnesota and Wyoming prohibit the
use OF silencers. Connecticut has pro-
vided that any hunter who shall injure
. fence or let down a bar without re-
placing it shall forfeit his hunting
license privilege for two years.
Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Brit
ish Columbia require license appli-
cants under sixteen years OF age to
furnish the written consent Of parent
or guardian. Vermont has similar
restriction for those under fifteen, anc
Oregon does not permit children IN
der fourteen years old to hunt except
on the premises of their parents, rela-
tves or guardians.
Numerous states are restocking pre-
serves with elk and other big game.
In the effort to protect this game
Pennsylvania. Vermont, West Virginia
and Wisconsin have protected elk for
a tern of years, and in Massachusetts,
wher6 a few moose have escaped from
the Blue Mountain forest reserve into
the adjoining woodlands, perpetual
close season for moose has been pro-
vided In the hope that this area may
eventually be restocked from this nu-
clens.
During the year IS states created
game preserves. IA in the. United
States and in Manitoba. In Wash
ington the county game commissioners
were authorized to create game pre-
serves, not to include more than three
townships in county, and the authori-
ties of Michigan, Ohio and Vermont
were authorized to establish game pre-
serves on private lands.
One of the marked features OF the
legislation of this year was the I'M
usual progress in the establishment
of bird and game refugees BY execu-
tive order four national bird reserves
were created. the Aleutian reservation.
containing the entire chain of Aleu-
tian islands, in Alaska, and the smaller
reservations of Walker lake in Arkan-
sas, Petit Bots island on the coast OF
Alabama and Anaho island in Pyramid
lake, New, thus bringing the total
number Of national bird reservations
up to.64. Recently the Niobrara bird
reservation has been enlarged and
stocked with herd of buffalo. elk and
deer.
A number of changes in laws pro-
tecting big game were made during
the year. Colorado and North Dakota
prohibited all killing of deer for term
of years and Saskatchewan has pro-
vided a close season throughout the
year for all big game south of latitude
81 degrees. Laws protecting does at
all seasons were enacted in Florida,
Nevada and Wyoming. The deer sea.
sons were shortened from two weeks
to two months in Utah, Wyoming and
Quebec. New Hampshire heightened
the season two weeks in Coos county
Vermont ten days, and Massachusetts
opened the season in the few closed
counties, thus permitting shooting
throughout the state
Wyoming and Montana, heretofore
anording the principal hunting for elk
and sheep, have recently limited the
hunting area to few counties in each
state, where the seasons have usually
been shortened. Wyoming has adopt
ed the innovation of allowing the kill.
ing of female elk only under ordinar!
resident licenses and requiring licen
sees to obtain q special SIS licens.
to kill bull or an additional COW.
The most important changes in sea
sons are due to the passage of the fed
eral law protecting migratory birds
Under the regulations proposed by tbs
department of agriculture spring shoe
ing IL entirely eliminated and the sea
sons materially shortened In severa
states. -.r4s..r.- ..
Restriction OF hunting and create
uniformity OF laws is the genera
trend OF state legislation in the maj
ter. Of seasons. Florida repealed al
local game laws and made the season:
uniform throughout the state and tht
passage OF a measure in Wisconsi,
adopting the same opening date for
upland game as is in force In Mime
sofa and North Dakota illustrates the
fact. f.E T.. e.
New York placed q close season on
quail for five years and Kansas added
both quail and prairie chickens to the
close-season list until 1918. Ohio sus.
pended hunting Of quail, ruffed grouse
and doves for two years. Pennsylva.
mia eliminated the open season on
doves, kildeer plover and blackbirds,
while Utah extended complete protec.
ton. to doves, swans and ell shore
birds except snipe. The trend of leg.
islation during the last year has been
toward electing the close season. n
Delaware shortened the season on
ducks q month and on geese two
weeks; indiana curtailed the season
nix weeks on doves and ten days on
quail and ruled Erouse: Michigan, Is
days on wopdcock. and Missouri one
nonth on quail; Oregon shortened the
season As days on doves and pigeons.
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