The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-01-29
Many new Laws
1oPR0TECT CAME
Bulletin Gives Federal and State
Legislation Enacted In 1919.
OPEN SEASONS CUT DOWN.

ssrvss-Misratory Birds Cared For.
Limit Of Number Of Birds That May
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Joins United States In Protection.
New York.-The bulletin issued a
short time ago by the department of
agriculture giving the more important
features of the recently enacted federal
law regulating interstate commerce In
game, with brief synopsis Of the
game laws enacted in 1913 in the va
rious states Of the Union and provinces
Of the Dominion of Canada. is one of
the most popular yet published for the
benefit of game hunters. and already
the department is finding it a problem
Of no small proportions to supply the
demand for 1t.
In 1918 the bulletin states that legis-
lative sessions were held in forty eight
Of the American states. eight of the
Canadian provinces and in Newfound-
land, and in nearly every instance bills
affecting game We're introduced. while
regulations for the protection Of migra-
tory and :nsectivorous birds in the
United States and big game in Alaska
were promulgated by the department
Of agriculture. In the new laws there
are many novel as we'll as important
provisions.
Among the most marked features of
the years legislation was the progress
in the establishment of bird and game
refugees. By order of President Wilson
four great national bird reserves were
created. They are the Aleutian reser-
walton, which takes in the entire chain
of Aleutian islands in Alaskan waters;
the smaller reservation of Walker lake
In Arkansas. Petit Bots island on the
Alabama coast and Anaho island in
Pyramid lake, Nevada, which brings
the total number of national bird reser-
vations up to sixty-four. There is also
available an appropriation for the COM
pletiOn and maintenance of an elk
refuge in Wyoming. In addition to
these federal creations there were also
created during the year state game
preserves in fifteen of the states of the
Union and four Of the Canadian prov
inces.
The records show that the general
trend of state legislation in the matter
OF seasons seems to have been toward
still further restriction of hunting
and greater uniformity of laws. This
fact is illustrated by the enactment of
general game law in Florida. which
made the seasons uniform throughout
the state. and the passage by the Wis
consin legislature of a law in which
was adopted the same opening date for
upland game as Is in force in the neigh
boring states Of Minnesota and North
Dakota. In New York close season
was placed on quail for Eve years,
while Kansas added both quail and
prairie chickens to the close season list
until 1918.
Ohio suspended hunting in quail,
ruffed grouse and doves for two years;
Pennsylvania eliminated the open sea-
son on doves, kildeer, plover and
blackbirds; Utah extended complete
protection to doves, swans and all
shore birds except snipe, while in Flor
ida the robin was removed from the
game list Delaware shortened by
month the season on ducks and by two
weeks the season on wild geese, and
Indiana shortened the dove season by
six weeks and that on quail and ruffed
grouse by ten days. New Jersey cut
down the season ON upland game by
twenty-six days and on woodcock nine.
teen days, while in Pennsylvania the
woodcock season is two weeks shorter.
The change in bag limits. as usual,
tends toward further restrictions, while
license measures received the consid.
Grafton Of the legislatures of sixteen
of the states in the Union and four of
the provinces of Canada. In Della
ware. Florida, Michigan, Ohio and
Pennsylvania resident licenses were
adopted for the first time.
The bulletin also promulgates the
new regulations for carrying into ef-
feet the recently enacted federal law
for the protection Of migratory birds.
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