The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-01-15
GAME and FISH Law
CHANGES PROPOSED
Minnesota SpOrtsmen's Or.
CARNATIONS Will Present
Program
ONE BUCK LAW
Material Revision of Regula-
tiOns for Trapping Fur
Bearing Animals

have been drafted into resolutions
to be presented to the current ses-
sion of the state legislature by
sportsmen in various parts Of the
state.
Meetings already have been held
at Eveleth and Winona and were
attended by George w. Mccullough
retiring state game and fish COM
missioner, and by state senators
and representatives from those Sec
lions and other gatherings are to be
held in northern Minnesota and the
Twin Cities.
The Arrowhead Sportsmen's as
sociation, at meeting attended by
Mccullough and 60 members at
Eveleth, adopted resolution urg-
ing abolition of the zone buck law"
and of commercial fishing in Can,
adian waters bordering on Mime
sofa east of International Falls.
Other matters recommended
were:
That all wolf bounties paid by
state be taken from the general
fund, thus saving the funds of the
game and fish department; that the
auxiliary forest law be amended so
as to allow the general public the
right of hunting in auxiliary forests
and access to public waters thereof
subject to regulations of the de-
partment Of game and fish.
To provide a regulated season for
taking of mink for November 1 to
March each year; repeal Of that
part of chapter Alb, H. F. 1878, laws
Of 1929, section 5543, Of subdivision
which prohibits water sets relating
to the manner Of taking mink made
contingent on passing Of the for
mer; extend the law, for taking
mink traps until September Is, and
the opening November Of each
year; change open season on white
fish from November to October Is
or northern zone.
No protection be granted to doe
and fawn deer unless the county be
closed in its entirely to hunting
deer; opposed any and all changes
in legal shooting hours for hunting
ducks; provide that trapping licens-
es be issued for the fiscal trapping
season from and after July 1 prece-
ding such fiscal fishing season.
In favor of an annual open sea-
son for taking beaver in the spring,
oppose any change in the opening
date for taking of pike and pickerel
from May Is as the law now pro-
vides; make the opening Of brook
trout fishing in st. Louis, Lake and
Cook counties uniform; recommend
that pike fingerlings be raised in
Lake Vermilion instead of pike fry
as is now being done.
Opposing all roads in Superior
National forest or to wild lakes, all
roads into them necessary for for
est protection be fenced off and
make it crime for others, outside
of officers, to use them; civil SER
vice and raising pay for all game
wardens; opposed the commissions
form of supervision proposed by the
Izaak Walton league to the game
and fish department; authorized
the game and1ish commissioners to
open and close season on all upland
birds without executive orders.
While the Eveleth meeting oppos-
ed the non-political conservation
commission plan based on the idea
of the Wisconsin and Pennsyl-
vania commissions, the Winona
gathering attended by hunters, fish
ers and trappers was heartily in
dorsed.
The proposed plan has the indose-
ment of the Izaak Walton league
and the American Legion and it is
understood will be advanced by
Governor Floyd B. Olson.
The commission would include
either five or seven non-salaried
members, two of whom are to be
appointed every two years. A train
er director would be employed to
direct all departments dealing with
natural resources. Employees would
be put upon civil service basis.
Fishermen at the meeting outlin-
ed several reforms in the trout and
river fishing laws, trappers discus
sed trapping season and law chang
es, and hunters went into detail re-
garding changes in hunting laws.
Among the changes suggested
were:
Opening the trout season on May
1 instead of April Is and >extension
of the closing to September 1 in
stead of August Is, providing May
1 date is obtained.
Return of a size limit of seven
inches for trout with a provision
that smaller trout must be returned
to the water with care.
Establishment of state-owned
rearing ponds in connection with
the Lanesboro hatchery where
trout could be retained until later
in the fall.
Development of series of rear
ing ponds under state control in
Whitewater state park, and clos
ing of headwaters of trout creeks
to fishing.
The meeting also went on record
as strongly favoring classification
of pickeral as rough fish in the
Mississippi river and southern half
of the state.
AS regards trapping the meeting
went on record in favor Of musk
rat season similar to that of Wis
consin which opens on March and
continues to April 10 in every year.
Reforms in the methods of trapping
muskrats also were suggested.
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