The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-11-24

vice ana the Reclamatl0n survey.
National organizations represented
at the hearing were the American
Forestry Association, Society of
American Foresters, the National
Grange, the Association of State
Foresters, the American Game
Association, the American Farm
Bureau Federation and the Izaak
Walton League of America
Seth Gordon, president Ct the
Americn Game Association, stress
ed the fact that game management
is a land-use problem, with the
farmer an important factor in its
constructive development. Wild
game is becoming secondary farm
crop and is proving a source of
source of food supply and sport for
him as well as the urban hunter.
w. D. Arcy representing the
Isaak Walton League, referred to
the fisherman's need of pure
streams and plenty of water in
streams well stocked with fish as
an example of the interdependence
of recreation with other fields of
conservation. These declared DR..
Magee, can function best under
one department where the dangers
of lost motion and overlapping
with other departments can be
avoided.
There is a bill pending before
Congress, designed to coordinate
activities of the bureaus dealing
with all wild life and their respec-
tive basic attributes. Forestry, for
instance, is inextricably bound up
in wild life, and also food control.
Floods and forest fires are among
the greatest menaces to wild life,
conservationists pointed out.
U. S. Solid For State Game Plan
Washington, D. C.-In line with
the recommendations of the Amer
lean Game Policy, adopted by the
Game Conference in 1880 after a
group of leaders from various or
CARNATIONS had drafted it, the
state of Washington voted over
whelmingly in the recent election
to adopt the state wide commission
system of game and fish admins
tration.
This makes the United State I'M
animous for the statewide system,
according to a bulletin of the
American Game Association. Miss
issippi, the only other state en-
ploying the county system of game
administration at the beginning of
1882, adopted the state system in
June last.
The governor of Washington will
appoint a non-partisan commission
of six men of prominence with a
general knowledge of wild life,
three of whom will come from
west of the Cascades and three
east of the Cascades. The new COM
missioners will be appointed for
terms of two, four and six years,
thereby establishing the stagger
system so necessary to assure a
continuity of policy.
This commission will control the
policies of the new statewide de-
partment which replaces the separ-
ate game commissions formerly
operating independently of each
other in 80 counties. The commits
sion will select it's own chief adj
ministrative officer, to be known as
the Director of Game.
A number of other states will at
tempt to place their wild life under
the control of similar non-partisan
bodies this coming winter.
Conservationists point with sat
isfactiono the slow but sure work.
ing out of the various game policy
recommendations.
A number of experimental or
game management demonstration
areas have already been establish
ed among them being the well
known Willimston project in Mich
igan; above twe,ve areas in Iowa
covering pheasants, Hungria: par
tridges and quail; and Wisconsin is
now establishing series of man.
agement areas similar to those in
Iowa