Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-18
IOWA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION
WOULD PLACE FELlNEs IN
CLASS WITH DOGS.
OPPOSED TO NARROWING
HIGHWAYS OF stats
Association Call. For Complies Rs-
vision Of Fish and Game Laws ard
Procure Wider Protection For .neEi.
sons Of Forest. and streams-Fisk
and Game Commission Favored.

Des Moines, JAM 1S-In the rush of
agricultural week in Des Moines, when
a half dozen meetings were held, the
final results of the work of the Iowa
Park and Forestry Association were
almost lost. There were some things
proposed, as for instance:
/ Licensing cats in cities and towns
the same as dogs.
! OppCsitin to narrowing the public
highways of the state.
| Gathering up all waste land that may
be useful for forestry.
Provision for parks and game pre-
serves all over the state.
| The following were the formal reso-
lutions as adopted, covering the pro-
gram for the association as recognized
and placed on new basis:
Resolved, that the Iowa Park and
Forestry Association, assembled at Des
Moines this Sth day of December, 1914,
hereby endorses the following pro-
posed changes in the laws of the state.
We request the legislative committee
of the association to prepare the neces-
sary bills for presentation to the next
general assembly, and we urge upon
said assembly the need of enacting said
bills into statutes of the state.
That state fish and game COM
mission be appointed by the governor,
all the employees of said commission to
be appointed and serve under civil
service law.
THAT the Iowa fish and game law
be completely revised so as to afford
greater protection to those native birds
and animals now rapidly diminishing
in our state, and to give all the citi-
zens of the state equal rights therein.
THAT the moneys now received from
| hunters license fees be placed in the
! general funds of the state; and that
| the appropriations for the enforcement
of the fish and game laws and for the
carrying out of the purposes thereof
be taken from the general funds of the
| state.
| Opposes Narrower Highways.
THAT the association goes on record
against any narrowing of the public
| roads of the state. to the end that the
| natural beauty of our highways may
be conserved; that the law requiring
| farmers to NOV the weeds on roads adj
jacent to their farms be construed SO
that the native shrubs and flowers
| which adorn so many of our roadsides
may be spared so far as may be con-
sistently done.
| That this association respectfully
recommends to the railways, of the
their rights Of way especially these
portions of native prairie which make
our state so attractive to railway
travellers thru many months Of the
! year. a
THAT action be taken towards the
establishment of state and county
parks and preserves thruout the state.
Such parks are well calculated to fos-
| ter an interest in the conservation of
| the natural resources of Iowa, by pre-
! senting to the people concrete ex-
amples Of tree preservation and tree
culture: of the economic and aesthetic
value of the native birds, animals and
flowers. as well as affording to young
and old, facilities and social gather
/! ings
"That an effort be made to keep con-
| troll of all lands and also to purchase
such adjoining as may be ruined for
farm purposes by reason of dams that
may be built. Also that all lakes that
may prove of value to the state for
sports, educational and recreation pur-
poses be purchased by the state.
"That diligent effort be made to
secure all waste land that may prove
of value for forestation, such as is
lands, river bottoms and hillsides.
THAT provisions be made for the
acceptance and proper maintenance of
gifts of land by townships. counties
and the state of Iowa, said lands to be
used as game preserves, forest re-
serves parks, creation grounds or for
other purposes for the benefit of the
people at large
THAT, in view of the great destruc-
ton of birds by house cats. the asso-
citation goes on record as favoring and
proposing the licensing Of cats in
towns and cities in manner similar
to the licensing of dogs. and that the
respective towns and cities make
necessary provision for the proper dis
position of all house cats not SO
| licensed
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