The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-13
FIFTH MEETING
 OF COMMISSION
 IS TERMINATED
Game Com miss on Ad- journs-Issues Summary
 of Work Done 22 Days

After completing it's fifth annual meeting, the Alaska Game Com mission adjourned today following a 22-day session. Dr. w. H. Chase, President, and Irving Mex. Reed, member of the Commission, left on the Yukon today for their respect i've homes in Cordova and Fair banks.
 The remaining Commissioners, w. R. Selfridge and Frank D. Will Hams, left early this week, the former for Ketchikan and the lat ter for Seattle.
 Faced Important Questions
 During it's meeting the Commis sion was faced with several im- portant problems, some of which had been discussed during previous annual meetings, but on which, owing to lack of information, no action had been taken heretofore" said statement made public here today by H. W. Terhune, Executive Secretary, summarizing the work accomplished.
 Any changes in present regula- tions recommended by the Com mission at the meeting just con- cluded will not be effective until July 1, 1881. New game circulars announcing the changes in regula- tions will be printed and distributed in time to be in the hands of in- terested persons by that date.
 Having received favorable reports on game conditions throughout most of the Territory, the regula- tions affecting seasons and bag linn it's on big game will remain in gen. eral as they are at present.
 Fur Areas Redistricted
 For more than ten years" said the summary of the meeting, "the open seasons for taking fur bearing animals have been governed by the division of the Territory into three fur districts The Commission has realized for several years that these districts were inadequate% to per- init the setting of open seasons at a time when the fur was at it's best but it has been unwilling to attempt a revision, and create new fur districts until it was in pos- session of more authentic informa- tion.
 With the gathering of a vast amount of information from all sections of the Territory by it's wardens, and with suggestions from many people conversant with cli- matic conditions and the primeness of furs in nearly every section of Alaska, the Commission has in- creased the number of fur districts to eight.
 Boundaries Are Outlined
 'The new district number one includes Southeast Alaska as far west as Cape Fairweathsr.
 ''District number two embraces the drainages of the coastal re- zion from Cape Fairweather to Prince William Sound and the low ~4 Copper River Region, Kenai Peninsula, and portion of the Eu- sitna River drainage to Cook Inlet from the west, down to the base of the Alaska Peninsula.
 District number three includes most of the Alaska Peninsula, the Kodiak-Afognak Island group. all of the islands along the south side of the Alaska and the Aleutian Islands e
 District number four covers a portion of the north side of the Alaska Peninsula, the Iliamna and Lake Clarke region and all the drainage of the Nushagak River, including the Wood River lakes.
 District number five embraces the lower Kuskokwim and lower Yukon Rivers, Nunivak and St. Lawrence islands, Seward Penin- sula, and the drainages of the Selawik, Kobuk and Noatak Rivers.
 District number six includes the Arctic Coast region north of the summit of Brooks Range from Cape Lisburne to the International Line at Demarcation Point.
 District number seven includes the drainages of the upper Koyu- kuk and Yukon rivers and the Porcupine River
 District number eight includes the drainages of the upper Copper, Susitna and Kuskokwim rivers. to- gether with the drainages of the Yukon River from a point midway between Russian Mission and Holy Cross to old Fort Hamlin, including the lower Koyukuk River.
 Attention to Climate
 "In this realignment of fur dis tricts, particular attention was giv- en to climatic conditions which constitute the governing factor in
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