Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-04
DOWN SKATERS OBJECT
Intend to. Fight the Proposed
Change in Deer Law to
Month of December.

Month of December.
/ One of the big fights which will
come up before the present legis-
lature will be that of having the
deer season open in December in
stead of November. While all of
the northern sportsmen wish the
change made to December, down
staters are bowling their heads off
in an endeavor to keep the law
where it is-simply that they may
continue to STAY does and fawns
and run EN- out in autos as they
did last year and previous seasons.
A we'll expressed article follows
from the Iron County News at
Hurley:
One Of the changes in the game
laws recommended to the state leg
islature by Izaak Walton leagues
and rod and gun clubs of Northern
Wisconsin is to have the season for
hunting deer changed They would
have it changed from the present
ten days in November to ten days
in December, starting the first of
the month.
In support of the. proposed
change the organizations of sports2
men contend that with a deer sea
son the fore part of December
there would be a better chance of
there being snow, thus making
hunting conditions better and they
also say that it would tend to save
the game since with snow on the
ground it would be easier to track
wounded animals. It is also argued
that with a later season there
would not be the usual horde of
hunters travelling to the north
woods in automobiles, for with a
heavy fall of snow auto travel
would be out of the question. This
it is believed, would help save the
game, for it would keep many
hunters out of the woods.
But what Northern Wisconsin
want and what they will get, in
view Of past experiences in the
way. of the legislature making
game laws, are entirely different
matters. The lower state fellows
will readily discern that the pro-
posed change in the deer hunting
law is aimed directly at them. And
since they are in the majority in
the law making bodies it can
readily be seen that the later deer
season proposition will have tough
shedding. The majority of hunters
who invade Northern Wisconsin
during deer hunting season are
down staters. Probably most of
them make the trip in automobiles.
And they will want to continue to
do so. Hence any effort to prevent
them from doing so by setting the
season later in the hopes that deep
snow will make auto travel diff
cult will be fought bitterly.
Past experience has shown that
the lower state sportsmen have lit
tie regard for conservation of fish
and game, at least so far as North
ern Wisconsin is concerned. In
proof of this statement we have
the present baby fish" law, law
that set conservation and propaga-
ton of fish in Northern Wisconsin
back a hundred years. Northern
Wisconsin spoFtsmen, affected the
most by this law, were not con-
suited when this law was passed,
at least if they were their wishes
were ignored. We have yet to find
a Northern fisherman who favored
the law or thought n was a good
law. The youngest fisherman in
this neck of the woods, the lad
who uses a willow pole and pin
for a hook, knows that the work
ings of the law has done more
harm to game fish in northern
waters than any fish regulation
placed on tie statutes. To remove