The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-10-02
Governor Closes 1924 Sea-
son on Ringneck Pheasant

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son on Ringneck Pheasant
Action Endorsed by Sportsmen's Clubs
Taken on Recommendation of
Game and Fish Commissioner
Acting on the recommendation Of
j. F. Gould, State Game and Fish
Commissioner, Governor j. A. O.
Preus has issued an order closing the
1924 season to the shooting of ring
neck pheasants. This action is based
on reconnaissance conducted by the
Game and Fish Department following
the receipt of petitions from sports
mems clubs and individuals in virtu-
ally all sections of the state, asking
that the species be given additional
protection this fall.
Sections 81 and So of the Mime
sofa game laws povide for an open
season for the taking of male ring
neck pheasants from October Is to
18, both inclusive, in even numbered
years, and the bag is limited to three
male birds in one day or in any one
open season.
This was to have been the first
open season on these birds, which
have been propogated in Minnesota
for number of years and with graf
flying results. Hundreds of farm
ers have obtained eggs from the
State Game Farm annually, and as
a result the birds now are widely dis
tributed throughout the state. With
the approach of the first open season
provided under the law, however,
sportsmen's organizations and indi-
vidual conservationists in several To-
calities express the opinion that the
pheasants in their respective dis
tricts should be permitted to gain
better foothold, and the department
was petitioned to recommend the
closing of the season in several
counties.
At first it appeared that additional
protection in only few counties
would meet the needs this fall, and
such plan was contemplated by the
Commissioner. Sportsmen in other
localities, however, expressed them
selves in favor of more general pro-
lection to further encourage the
propagation work which has been
carried on successfully during the
past several years. At the time the
Commissioners recommendation was
made to the Governor, sportsmen's
clubs, game wardens and others in
fifty-four of the eighty-seven coun-
ties had petitioned another closed
season, so the Commissioners recon-
mendation was to the effect that adj
ditional protection be given the
species throughout the state for an
other season.
The Governors order followed. It
sets forth:
"Whereas, it has been recommend
ed to the Game and Fish Commits
sioner of Minnesota that additional
protection be given the ringneck
pheasant in this state by a closed
season, and after investigation by the
Game and Fish Commissioner is is
deemed advisable that such addition
al protection be given this species.
Now, theefore, 1. J. A. O.. Preus,
Governor of the State of Minnesota,
by virtue Of. and pursuant to author
ity vested in me by Section 1874,
chapter 400, Session Laws Minnesota,
1919, do hereby order that no pleas
ants be taken in this state during
the season of 1924.
This order shall remain in force
until the close of the 1925 regular
session of the Legislature of the State
of Minnesota, unless sooner revoked
or modified"
The counties petitioning this addi-
tional protection for ringnecks in
1924 are: Aitkin, Anoka, Beltrami,
Becker, Bigstone, Blue Earth, Crow
Wing, Carver, Chippewa, Cook, Carl
ton, Cottonwood, Cass, Dakota,
Douglas, Freedom, Fillmore, Grant,
Hubbard, Houston, Itasca, Jackson,
Kandiyohi, Lincoln, Lac qui Parle,
Lyon, Lake, LeSueur, Morrison,
Mile Lac, Meeker, Martin, Murray,
Mcleod, Mobiles, Nicollet, Olmstead,
Pope, Pine, Pipestone, Roseau, Rock,
Rice, Stearns, Scott, St. Louis, Todd,
Traverse, Waseca, Wright, Wadena,
Winona, Washington, and Yellow
Medicine.
In some localities the ruffed
grouse or partridge sometimes is re-
ferred to as pheasant. That native
species, however, is distinct from the
! imported ringneck, and sportsmen
should bear in mind that no action
has been taken by the Game and
Fish Department nor by the Govern
or to close the 1924 season for TAX
ling portridge, which, under the law,
lis from October Is to November 20,
both inclusive.