The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-08-19
STATE GAME LAWS
Uniform One Dollar Hunting
License Required or all
Persons Hunting

Saturday by VI. L. Alexander. the
+ new commissioner Of conservation.
regarding the changes made IN the
game laws at the recent meeting II
the Legislature. The Conservation
/ Commission is hereafter to be known
as the Department Of Conservation.
and there will be one commissioner
instead Of three. who will be known
az the commissioner If conservation.
The new department will have all
the duties, authorities, power priv
lodges. and jurisdiction of the former
commission.
The most important change made
fran the standpoint of the spOrtnerl
! 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,
asa cent parish license and 4 $500
statewide license. With the new law
everyone going into the fields or
marshland with gun must have
license. and the statewide dollar
license will permit hunting in any
portion of the State save parishes
where special regulations protect
certain game for special closed
season or on areas set aside for rest
ing places or refugees for the game
There were but few changes in the
open season for hunting of game
birds and the only ones so affected
were quail, wild turkey gobblers,
snipe and upland plover. or papa
botte. The season for Bob White
quail and turkey cocks open Novem-
I Der Is and closes March |. The
season for snipe opens November
and closes March Is, thus lengthen-
ing shooting season for this fovorite
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 Igrosbac), rails (mudhens).
gallinules, coots, (poule d 'dau) sand
pipers (cheroOks), tattlers, curlews,
plovers, doves, and red-winged black
birds, the regular seasons prevails,
viz, November l to February Is.
A special closed season for three
years, to December 1919, was en-
acted for the following game birds:
Prairie chickens, killdeers, INLAND
plovers, ring-necked pheasants and
turkey hens. The law further pro-
vides that after 1919 these birds
may be hunted from November to
December 81 of any year. Announce
ment was made by the Department
of Conservation in 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
valuabIesea birds on the protected
list With other valuable insectivOrous
birds of the State, and any killing
of sea gulls will lay the violator open
to the penalties prescribed for the
killing of non-game birds.
The new laws were enacted per-
!, tanning to the fur-bearing animals or
various game animals, and the open
season and regulations in force for
the past year will apply for the COM
ing hunting seasons. The hunting
of squirrels will not be lawful until
, the first of October. The hunting Of
, deer, will open in the northern zone,
Vernon, Rapides. Avoyolles, Coacor-
dia land all parishes north Of them,
: September! Is and close January 5.
The season for the southern zone,
all parishes south of those named
above, opers fifteen days later,
October l and closes January 20.
The special attention of sportsmer
and other hunters is called to the
fact that the shooting Of valuable
insectivorous birds, known locally a:
yaille and grasSet is unlawful. and
violators of the non-game bird are
|, liable to heavy penalties in the courts
. The robin. the kingbird (black gras.
set( cat bird (black cailIel, woOc