Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-04-26
Proposed Change Will
End the One-Buck Law
ONE-BUCK LAW WILL FALL OPEN
SEASON WILL OCCUR IN AL
TERNATE YEARS


Following hearings and consulta
tions with sportsmen, the fish and
game committee will soon send to
revision bills covering changes which
will he recommended in hunting and
fishing laws. These measures will be
printed and posted for further hear
ings, when sportsmen will be afforded
opportunity further to express their
views.
If present plans are. carried out,
there will be a closed season on deer
this year and an open season in 1924
The plan is to alternate thereafter
with closed and open seasons until
game has become plentiful enough
to justify another legislature in max
ing another change. The open season
will occur on even numbered years.
The one-buck law will probably go
out for a season, and instead of being
permitted to kill one buck, the hun
ter will be allowed to kill one deer.
The reason for this is that the one
buck law is believed to have accom-
plished all that is possible at the pre-
sent time in conserving the does Hun
ters and conservation wardens say
that they now find 20 to 25 does to
each buck, and this disparity is be-
lieved to be too great to result in the
most rapid multiplication of deer.
The hunter will be permitted for
time at least, to even UP things. The
price of the deer hunters shipping
tag will be increased from rs to so
cents.
The alternating closed and open sea
son will also be applied to game birds
which include prairie chicken, grouse
and partridge. In the case of birds.
however, the open season will be CON
tinued this year, and on odd number
ed years thereafter Under this plan
the open season for birds occurs dur
ing the year of the closed season for
deer, and vice versa, SO that there
will always De an occasion on which
there will be hunting of some kind.
The bag limit for game birds will
be five each day for five days, and
the hunter will be permitted to take
10 birds home with him, instead of
the five permitted under the presen'
law.
Trout fishing will open May Is, if
another committee bill is enacted in-9
stead of on May the present rule
No change is made in the closing date
which is Aug. /. The bag limit re
mains at 35 per day. The seyen-inch
restriction on the size of fish is strick
en- out of the law by an amendment
in the new bill
Women's rights will be extended to
nonresident fisherladies. The present
law provides for the licensing of male
nonresidents only, but the new bill
strikes out that restriction. Nonresi
dent licenses are raised from So to
SO. The nonresident will also be per-
mitted to make but one shipment of
his catch to his home instead OF
three, as under the present law. This
shipment may weigh up to 20 pounds
or it may be a single fish of any
weight
There is little likelihood that the 81
resident fisherman's license, favored
in some sporting circles as means
of replenishing funds used for fish
propagation, will be considered at this
session. The committee has no bill
on this subject, and no member has
introduced the measure.
Owing to the need of more propaga-
ton, the committee will likely recon-
mend establishment of five or six
new fish hatcheries. It will not at
tempt to fix their locations. This will
be left to the judgment of the conser
walton commission.