The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-08-28
State Hunting Dates
Compared By Chief
Shows Where Washington State
Offers More Than
Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania
Presenting a comparison which
should draw at least a dour smile
of satisfaction from local hunters,
the Washington game department.
compares it's own hunting seasons
and bag limits with those of Penn
sylvania, conceded to be the ideal
game state of the east, Bernard T.
McCauley, acting state director, de-
clareS.
Starting with the largest game of
the two states, Washington offers
an open elk season in six counties
from November 3 to Is, inclusive.
Pennsylvania has no elk season.
Deer, Pennsylvania greatest
game attraction, are open season
game over To-day period, males
to have at least forked antlers. In
addition a special three-day season
is added on deer of both sexes in IL
counties. Washington presents a
13-day deer season on buck deer
with horns at least two inches in
visible length.
More Days To Hunt Bear
Washington's bear season coin
cides with it's deer season, while
Pennsylvania allows three days of
bruin hunting. Bag limits are one
bear in both states.
Pennsylvania nimrods have a.
November 100 open season on wild
turkeys, which are protected the
year round in washington. However,
the easterns states bag limit is one
turkey for the month, and an eXcep-
ton closes % counties. Pennsylvan-
ia also has the month of November
as season on blackbirds, which
haven't even been classified as game
birds in Washington.
On Hungarian partridges there is
no open season in Pennsylvania,
while Washington offers a Today
jump date season with 5-bird
daily bag limit, and a 10-bird
possession limit. An exception adds
10 straight days of hunting in four
counties where the Hungarians are
so plentiful that they must be thin
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Compare Pheasant Dates
On ruffed grouse and China
pheasants Pennsylvania opens it's
season from November to 30, but
bag limits are two birds in any one
day, and 10 birds for the season, with
only male Chinas to be taken. Wash
ington has a four day season on
ruffed and blue grouse, October Is,
16, 10 and 20, but it's bag limit is
three birds per day, so that FORUM
ate hunters should bag a dozen
birds during the four days Of shoot
ing and thus exceed the eastern
states limit for a full month.
For China pileasants washington
has Today jump season extending
over a period of more than three
weeks. The bag limit is three birds
daily but not to exceed two hens, and
the possession limit is six birds but
not to exceed four hens. The possess
sion limit should not be confused
with Pennsylvania season limit, for
by disposing of his limit of birds
each day Of shooting a Washington
hunter might possibly bag lawfully
80 Chinas during the season.
Pennsylvania's open seasons do not
include Sundays, for no hunting is
allowed there on the Sabbath.
Many Hunting Accidents
The Maryland Conservationist
quotes the Pennsylvania game COM
missioners as reporting % fatal and
254 non-fatal hunting accidents last
year. The total of 282 mishaps shows
one accident for every 20359 hunters
in the field. Although no exact fig
ures are available, Washington
nimrods sustained very few hunting
accidents last year. The same fig
ures quoted above show that in 1884
there were 1877 hunters for every
square mile in the Quaker state.
If all Washington license holders,
fishing and hunting both, and resi-
dent and nonresident, were afield
at one time there would be only 90
of them to each of the 69,127 square
miles of the state. Pennsylvania has
As, 1875 square miles.
Last year the income from sales
of all licenses issued by the game
department netted the Washington