Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1914-01-29
TANY i.El1, LAWS
T0PROTECT CAME:
Bulletin Gives Federal and State
Legislation Enacted In 1918.
OPEN SEASONS CUT DOWN.
Many States Restoring Big Game Pre-
serves-Mieratory Birds Cared For.
Limit of Number of Birds That May
Be Legally Killed Reduced-Canada
Joins United States In Protection.

Be Legally Killed Reduced-Canada
Joins United States In Protection.
New Yorkshire 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 Il 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 problem
of no small proportions to supply the
demand for it,
In 1913 the bulletin states that legiS-
latiYr sessions were held in forty-eght
of the American states. eight of the
Canadian provinces and in NeWfounG-
land. and in nearly every instance bills
affecting game were introduced. while
regulations for the protection Of mi"ra
tory and miscellaneous 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 well 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 rpser-
walton. which takes in the entire chain
of Ncutian 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 rcser-
vations up to siXty-four. There is also
available an appropriation for the com
pction 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
inccS.
The records show that the general
trend of state legislation in the matter
of seasons seems to have been toward
Il still further restriction of hunting
and greater uniformity of laws. This
| fact is illustrated by the enactment of
Il general game law in Florida which
made the seasons uniform throughout
the state, and the passage by the Wis
conSin legislature of n 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 five years,
while Kansas added both quail ana
prairie chickens to the close season list
until 1918.
Ohio suspended hunting in quail.
| ruIfed grouse and doves for two years;
Pennsylvania eliminated the open sea
son or doves, Kildeer, plover and
blackbirlS; 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 ruffcd
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 III bag limits. rs usual,
tends toward further restrictions. while
| license measures received the conSd-
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 eff
feet the recently enacted federal law
for the protection of migratory birds.