The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-03-08

was pointed out that If this could be
brought about 1t would have much
better effect and perhaps more justice
would he shown. It was also suggested
that instead of giving the offenders a
fine that they get straight Jail SEN
tence. thereby eliminating lot of il
legal hunting that is done at the present
time.
This forest ranger also suggested that
our present game reserves or what he
terms as "rest areas" would be much
smaller in size. He pointed out that
if this were done it would provide a
great amount more Of hunting area for
the sportsman and perhaps serve the
same purpose. This would tend to re-
duce the hunting accidents because the
hunters would then have a larger area
to hunt and naturally would not be
hunting so close together which would
make for safer hunting.
It was also pointed out that this
would perhaps eliminate some of the
illegal hunting in these large game re-
fuges. It seemed to be the opinion at
the present time that the large game
refugees are made use of to very great
extent by our poachers because of the
fact that they are not properly patroled
at the present time by our game war
dens. It is a known fact that the
poacher and illegal hunters are killing
a lot of deer at the present time in
season and out and disposing of them
in large centers for large fees of which
the state does not derive any benefit at
all and at the same time the sportsmen
are deprived of hunting game that is
so killed.
The present open season for the
taking of deer of every other year be-
tween the dates of 18th to 25th of Nov
ember was approved and it was sug-
geSted that no change should be made
in this law whatsoever. It being pointed
out that all in all the open season from
Is to Is of November is the best that
could possibly be SET 1t was also felt
that the setting Of the open season
should not be left to the commissioner
as is proposed by some Of our sports
men at the present time. The matter
of feeding our deer when the snow is
heavy was discussed. 1t was suggested
that where farmers cut the wild hay
on state land that they should be asked
to leave a portion of the hay in the
field where they cut it in stacks for
feed for the deer in the winter time
when natural feed Is scarce.
Grouse, Prairie Chicken and Partridge.
Mr.. johnson brought up the matter
of open season for the hunting of
grouse, prairie chicken and partridge
In his opinion this season should be at
the same time because when it is set at
a different time it causes a lot of game
to be killed Illegally either one or the
other because it is so hard to distinguish
the difference while being hunted. He
felt that if the season was the same for
all of them that it would be a much
more fair proposition to the sportsman
and perhaps would save some of our
game. The matter of feeding the
pheasants was discussed somewhat, and
In this Mr.. johnson said that he had
been feeding some pheasants at his
farm all winter. It seemed to be the
opinion of the meeting, however, that
this was pretty well taken care of at
the present time by the Game and Fish
department so no definite action was
taken.
Fishing Licenses.
Mr.. Chapman recommended that the
Game and Fish Department should have
the issuing of fishing licenses direct to
the various dealers as they did in the
past rather than have 1t go to the
county auditor as it is now being
handled. He said at the present time
there is quite a lack of service to the
sportsman because of the fact that so
few dealers handle licenses in the vari-
GUS communities and often times IL
censes are not obtainable for days and
weeks at a time. This is quite an in
convenience to the tourists who wish