The Nome nugget., 1928-06-16
NEW REGULATIONS GOVERNING
 GAME

sion at Juneau last winter. Two changes occurred in the personnel Of the Commission since its last meeting. Mir. Irving Nick. Reed succeeds Dr. Preston s. Whitney from the Fourth Division, and MT. J. C. Widstead succeeds Mir. -''os. D. Jensen from the Second ..:vision. Upon completion of its work the Commission adjourned.
 It is the desire of the Commis- sion to make as few changes as possible in the present regulations. It was found. however. from re- concentrations received from trappers and other residents in- terested in the wild life of the Territory, and from recommends tions of the Commission's field force, that some changes in seas ons for the taking of fur-bearing animals were desirable to allow trapping to be done when the fur is more fully prime. These changes in the regulations promulgated un- der the Alaska Game Law for the year beginning July l, 1928, are being recommended 10 the Sec retary Of Agriculture.
 Beaver
 -.......It is the desire of the Commits sion to maintain the breeding stock of beaver at a point where the heavy trapping of one or two seas ons will not deplete the suppy to the danger line leading to exter. mination. With this end in view, it is thought best to follow a per- iod of one or two open seasons with like period of closed seas- Ons.
 Information received from those sections of the Territory where beaver were permitted 70 be trap ped last year, together with the knowledge of the extraordinary large catches made and the losses ensuing from the taking of these animals by shooting, has caused the Commission to fear that with the unknown danger ot the pres ent years open season the danger line is. rapidly approaching. This condition is being hasteoed by the tendency of less experienced trap pers to follow the line of least resistance and trap too closely those animals found in the more readily accessible regions, in fact the lower reaches of some of the best beaver streams are now al most denuded of beaver. After careful consideration the Commis- sion is recommendfng that the bea- yer season be closed for the year 1929.
 MuSkratS
 Recommendations received from persons residing in Fur District No. 3 indicate that the present op- en season on muskrats closes too soon after the breakup to allow normal catch of these animals to be made. To correct this condition the Commission is recommending that the season be permitted to re- main open a few days longer.
 The same condition is found in the Tanaua River region in Fur District No. and similar re- commendation is beirS made.
 Mink
 Recon mendations ot residents and available records of pelts talk er indicate that the sprpiy of minS 'n Fur D's;''tt No. 2 nas 'ecome sp deplete; g., to just;f a recom- mendati 'n fer the closi, cf the mink season iu this distric'.
 Hack Beer
 Petitions and recon lamentations from residents of that part of Fur District No. north of the Alask Range and Ahklun Mountains ask that the protection now given black bear through the closed season from June 20 to September 1 be removed. These recommenda- tions and petitions are based on the damage being done 10 the supply of game animals hy the black bear killing young moose