The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-10-05

lawfully killed out side Of the state
provided such game is not offered for
sale.
The more important changes affect
ing big game included the clos
ing of the season for four years on
moose in Maine; authorization for the
killing of so bull moose in Wyoming;
lengthening the season on elk in Mon
tana two weeks; closing the season
on mountain sheep in Montana;
changes affecting does in 8 states,
including the removal of protection
in Florida, New Jersey and Wyoming,
establishment of limit in Arkansas
and decrease in the limits in Alaska,
Michigan, Montana and Nevada
Under the present conditions deer
hunting is permitted in SO states, in
about one-third of which the hunter
is limited to one deer a season and
in most others to two. Seventeen
states protect does at all seasons and
allow only bucks to be killed-namely
Alabama, Arizona, California, Georgia,
Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, New Mex
leo, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont
West Virginia and Wisconsin. Penn
sylvania requires that deer killed shall
have horns inches above the hair
New York and Vermont at least in
ches long, and West Virginia inches
long, while California prohibits en-.
tirely the killing of spike bucks.
Notwithstanding the agitation in
favor of protecting quail for severa
years in some sections, no bills of this
kind were passed this year and 81
states still provide quail shooting
The seasons were shortened sil
weeks in Oklahoma and two week
in Nevada. Limits were established
for the first time in Arkansas ant
New Hampshire, reduced in Iowa from
% to Is per day, in Oklahoma iron
rs to 10, in Minnesota from Is to
. and increased in Nevada from Is t.
TO- All but fourteen states which per
nit quail hunting now have linn
, of 20 birds or less per day.
All the states now allow waterfow
hunting but the wood duck is pre-
, tected for several years throughout tn
! northern zone and in the souther
, zone in the states of California, kar
sas, and West Virginia. Daily ba
, limits were established for the frs
= time in Arkansas and Connection
) reduced in Oklahoma from 25 to /
q and increased in Missouri from 10
q Is. Most of the states now have
limit Of rs or less per day.
II Open seasons were heightened
4 Montana on elk and deer two weeks
), in Florida on deer and birds thrt
% weeks; in Minnesota on quail 20 days
and in Nevada on sage hens four and
y half months, on grouse one mon
= and on quail two weeks. New Jers'
q reverted to the former plan of huntiI
- deer on four consecutive Wednesda
= instead of five consecutive days.
:, Seasons were shortened in nu1
. Der of states. In the case of big gar
:, the deer season was curtailed in A
- kansas three months; in Oregon al
- Washington two weeks. In New Me
~ leo the seasons were generally shol
~ ened and arranged in two distrit
- divided at latitude 35 degrees. In CT
30 ifornia the dove season was made
y, ter and in Minnesota shortened
-. days; in Oklahoma the quail seas
- was curtailed six weeks, and in Mic
- gan, Nevada (ducks) Tennessee a
:; Wyoming, spring shooting of wa
fowl was abolished.
AL
-, cally affected traffic in game in
y Mississippi valley during the pres
year. In February the supreme CO..
NC of Arkansas held that a local !
% permitting shipment of game from
uo Chickasawba district of Mississi
ls' county, Ark, was unconstitutior
~ and that the general law prohibit
es shipment of game was in effect in t
-, nj nptc rNf
q: state. A little later the legislat'
~ of Tennessee prohibited the sale OF
-. protected game taken within the st
10 thereby cutting off the market
=, ducks killed on Reelfoot lake. F
ally, in June, a new game law
10 passed in Illinois prohibiting the S
10 of all game, native or imported,
= cept rabbits. For 20 years or m
~ Illinois has permitted the sale at {
~ tain seasons of game imported Fl
10 other states. Illinois now not 0
ne nc prohibits the sale but also the exp
us Of all protected game except rabh
% Missouri has strengthened its exI
oo' law by provision prohibiting exr
~ of quail for any purpose.
- A bag limit law was passed for
no. first time in Arkansas-applicable
"a deer, bear, turkey, quail and du'
leu Limits were established in Come
~ cut on squirrels and waterfowl;
you New Hampshire on quail, rul
TO grouse and woodcock and in Penn
.no vania on bear Indiana opened
ico season on prairie chickens for
oo- first time in several years and
no vided limit of five birds per da
oou Reductions in limits were made
ere deer in Alaska from 6 to 3, in N
TO tana from to 2, and in Michigan
no Nevada from to 1. In the cas-
ms, birds the more important reduct
Ieu in daily bag limits were made in
lns' inois on doves from Is to 10; in l
rus; on quail from Is to Is, and on pra
veo chickes from 25 to s; in Minnesota
hey all birds except ducks, from Is to
anu in Oklahoma on quail, plover, 81
hss and ducks from 25 to TO- Only
Al increases were provided: In Hi
on shore birds, in Missouri on
ose Except turkeys) from 10 to Is, an
i sI Nevada on quail from Is to 20.
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