Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-01-29
FEDERAL GAME Law.
Statement Of the United States
District Attorney.

United States District Attorney JACK
has given out the following statement:
Shreveport, La, Sept. Is, 1914.
Every true sportsman is interested in
ecuring strict observance of the game
laws, so likewise is every farmer; IT means
an increase in game and decrease in
boil weevils and other harmful insects.
For the conservation OF our game and the
preservation of our. insectiverous and
song birds, am glad to say that both
the federal government and the state OF
Louisiana have enacted stringent sta
tutes. This Office is in receipt Of many
requests for information as to the federal
law, and / have, therefore, thought it
we'll to prepare this statement, the better
to acquaint the public with its provisions.
The federal law does not provide the
same regulations and open land closed
seasons for all of the states, and so this
synopsis of the law is intended to cover
the statute only in so far as it is appli-
cable to Louisiana.
The federal statute covers only migra-
tory birds, and these are classified either
as migratory game birds or as migratory
insectivorous birds. The migratory game
birds are divided into five groups, as
follows:
(a) Waterfowl, including brant, wild
ducks, geese, and swans.
(b) Cranes, including little brown
sandhill, and whooping cranes.
(c) Rails, including coots, pallinules,
and sora and other rails.
I'D Shore birds, including avocets.
curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster
catchers, phalaropes. plover, sandpiDers,
snipe, stills, surf birds, turnstones, willet,
woodcock, and yellow legs.
(e) Pigeons, including doves and
wild pigeons.
The following are considered migratory
insectivorous birds:
Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuck-
COS, flickers, fycatchers, grosbeaks, hum
ming birds, kinglets, martins, meadow
larks, nighthawks or bull bats, nuthatch-
ers, orioles. robins, shrikes, swallows,
swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos,
warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills wood
peckers and wrens, and all other perching
birds which feed entirely or chiefly OH
insects.
Night Shooting Prohibited.
The shooting of all migratory game
birds is prohibited, between sunset and
sunrise.
Closed Season on lnsectlvor0us Birds.
The shooting of migratory insectivorous
birds is at all times prohibited.
F1ve.Year Closed Season.
The shooting of band-tailed pigeons,
little brown, sandhill, and whooping
cranes, swans, curlew, and all shorebrds
except the black-breasted and golden
plover, wilson or jack snipe, woodcock,
and the greater and lesser yellowlegs is
prohibited until September !, 1918.
Open Season
' November, December and January
constitute the open season for water fowl,
including brant, wild ducks, geese and
swans; for rails, including coots, GALL
mules, and sora and other rails; and for
the following shore birds: avocets, cur
Jews, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster
catchers, phalaropes, piover, sandpipers,
snipe, stills, surf birds, turnstones, willet,
wOodcock and yellow legs. The first day
on which shooting is permitted is the
first OF November, and the last day on
which it is permitted is the 3lst of jan
nary.
The open season for wOodcock is from
November 18th to January LIST. Novem-
Der 18th being the first day and Deem
Der 3lst the last.
The shooting of doves, under the Fed
eral statute, is only prohibited between
sunset and sunrise. Blackbirds are not
included in the Federal statute. Roth
doves and the -ed-winged blackb birds.
however, are classified under the state
law as game birds, and are protected
during the closed season therein provided:
that is to say, from November first to
February 10Th. 1t will be noted that the
closed season, as provided by the state
law, continues fifteen days lor ger than
the closed season provided by tile Federal
law.
The Conservation Commission and the
state officials are doing good work in the
enforcement of the state law, and it is
my intention to make special effort to
get rigid enforcement of the Federal
law.
In this, trust, shall have the hearty
cooperation of everyone, and especially
the farmers, sportsmen and hunting
clubs. All violations of the law reported
to this office will have prompt attention.
The penalty prescribed by the statute
lie a fine not exceeding 500 or imprison-
ment not exceeding 30 days, or both at
the discretion of the Judge: