Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-25
CHANGES IN GAME LAWS ANNOUNCED.
Uniform One Dollar Hunting License
Required Of All Persons Hunting.
Quail Season From November IS to
March 1.

or interest to the great army of
amateur hunters throughout the State
was the announcement made Satur-
day by Mr.. M. l.. Alexander, the new
commissioner of conservation, regard
ing the changes made in the game
laws at the recent meeting of the Leg
islature. The Conservation Commits
sion is hereafter to he known as the
Department of Conservation and there
will be one commissioner instead of
three, who will be known as the COM
missioner of conservation. The new
department will have all the duties,
authorities, power, privileges and
jurisdiction of the former commission.
The most important changes made
from the standpoint of the sportsmen
of Louisiana was the enactment of
uniform one-dollar hunting license
required of every one hunting. This
takes the place of the former statute
that allowed free hunting in wards,
a 5O-cent parish license, and $500
State wide license. With the new law
everyone going into the fields or
marshland with a gun must have
license, and the Statewide dollar
license will permit hunting in any
portion of the State save parishes
where special regulations protect GER
tain game for special closed season
or on the areas set aside for resting
places or refugees for the game.
There were but few changes in the
open season for the hunting of game
birds and the only ones so effected
were quail, wild turkey gobblers, snipe
and upland plover or papabotte. The
season for Bob White quail and
turkey cocks opens November Is and
closes March /. The season for snipe
opens on November / and closes on
March 10, thus frightening shooting
season for this favorite game bird one
month and permits shooting when
these birds are most plentiful. For all
the other birds on the game list:
Geese, ducks, night herons (grosbac,)
rails (mudhens), gallinules, coots
(poule dean, sandpipers cherooks),
tattlers, curlews, plovers, doves and
red winged blackbirds, the regular
season prevails, viz: November / to
February 10.
A special closed season for three
years, to December 81, 1919, was en-
acted for the following game birds;
Prairie chickens, kildees, upland
plovers, ring-necked pheasants and
wild turkey hens. The law further
provides that after 1919 these birds can
be hunted from November to Deem
Der 81 of any year. Announcement
was made by the department of Con-
sci walton il relation to the passage of
this special closed season that all
agents would be given special orders
to enforce this act to the letter and
bring all offenders before the courts.
The Legislature also repealed the law
that permitted the killing of sea gulls
during an open season. The repeating
of this act now places these valuable
sea birds on the protected" list with
the other valuable insectivorous birds
of the State, and any killing of sea
guIls will lay the violator open to the
penalties prescribed for the killing of
Inorganic birds.
No new laws were enacted pertain
ing to the fur-bearing animals or the
various game animals, and the open
season and regulations in force the past
year will apply for the coming hunt
ing season. The hunting of squirrels
will not be lawful until the first of
October. The hunting of deer will
open i'm the northern zone, Vernon,
Rapides, Avoyelles, Concordia and
all parishes north of them, September
Is and close January 8. The season
for the southern zone, all parishes
south of those named above, opens
fifteen days later, October 1, and
closes January 20.
The special attention of sportsmen
and other hunters is called to the fact
that the shooting of valuable insecti-
vorus birds, known as vaille and gras-
set, is unlawful. and violators of the
non game bird law are liable to heavy
penalties i'm courts. The robin, the
kingbird (black grasset), red-eyed
vireo (green grasset), catbird (black
caille), little green heron leap cap),
cedar birds (ortolans), are now pro-
tected and all hunters are warned by
the conservation authorities not to
kill them.
The s1.O0 State wide hunting license
applies only to resident amateur hunt
ers. The resident professional hunt
er's license or "market hunter" re-
mains at $40; unnaturalized foreign.
born residents, SIS; non-residents OF
State, SIS. The fur trappers' license
remains at SO, as in the past seasons.
The Gazette acknowledges receipt
of a photograph showing the carous
selle or merry -go-round of Mr.. c. R
Darden, now located at Lake
Provi d filled and surround.
ed by an eager crowd. We un'
derstand Mr.. Darden has done re.
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