The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-01-30
Game Department
Issues New Bulletin


of Volume l Of a new publication en-
titled Montana Fish and Game Notes.
1t is issued monthly by the Montana
Fish and Game Commission and one Of
the states we'll known newspapermen,
Paul MacLean, is the editor Of it.
1t is magazine of Is pages and filled
with information that will be well
coined by every newspaper editor,
every fisherman and hunter, every
lover Of wild life and by thousands of
tourists who visit our state during the
coming months.
In the editorial announcement The
editor says:
This bulletin is published in the in
terest of sportsmen and conservation
lists and the field force and employees
of the department. Material used in the
bulletin is privileged matter and may
be reprinted if proper credit is given
to this publication"
The bulletin gives the entire person
mel of the department..
Ray G. Lowe, chairman of the COM
in the opening statement says.
This magazine is to be distributed
for the benefit of thousands Of sports
men who are DESTROYS Of cooperating
with the department in solving the
problem Of keeping Montana a paradise
for hunters, fishermen and the lovers
Of the out-of-doors
The magazine will be of assistance
to sportsmen. With changing and al
tered seasons, the opening and clos
ing of fishing streams, new and chang
ing regulations, it is sometimes i'm
possible for a sportsman TO ascertain
from the brief newspaper accounts
exactly what has taken place and what
he is supposed to do about ii.
Although newspapers have CO.
operated with the department to the
fullest degree, their space is limited
sometimes to the dismay of sports
man, who doesn't know after he reads
it if he can kill Hungarian partridge
in Chouteau county or not.
Kenneth F. Macdonald, state fish
and game warden, contributes an out
standing article entitled Montana Now
Faced With the Problem of Putting
House in Order 1t deals with oil
phases of needed conservation.
DR.. w. F. Cogswell writes on the
bubonic plague and the need Of fight
ing it.
E. G. Phillips, superintendent Of fish
cries, gives an opening letter on Mon
tana's fisheries and fishing and their
possibilities.
Reports on game violations and the
sale of hunting and fishing Licensees are
given appropriate space.
The control of destructive vernin is
another theme and figures on the pur
chase of duck stamps are listed.
In greeting by Governor Holt tc
sportsmen he says;
Montana has so much to offer to The
sportsman and the visitor In search q
relaxation near to Natures heart tina
to enumerate her recreational adj
vantages would seem like putting on j;
dress parade wherewith to overaw,
the other states of the great sisterhood
Our mountain streams are continuous
ly stocked with what prove to be til,
fightingest fish In the world. Gu
forests furnish homes for large ans
small game in abundance and here thu
hunter may venture afield in safe as
surance that he viii be rewarded. With
in our borders are a myriad 'Dud
ranches where those who grow wear,
of the ceaseless drive and the complex
tiles of the life of a great city ma,
come for relaxation and restoration
Of the health and vigor that are diff
cult of recovery in sections less favore
than ours.
Our state fish and game commission
Is fully alive to the necessity for con
serving the resources over which it ha
control and of keeping the supply u
to the point where they will prove
perpetual appeal to those who far
afield with rod or gun It's job is a mo:
important one, and believing that it wi
succeed do not hesitate to invite tn
sportsman to come to Montana and sc
for himself. We claim for Montana til
title Of 'sportsrnan's paradise and "
have ample reason for asserting thu
he who hunts or fishes may find hel
that which will well repay him for II
visit and cause him to come back aga
and again"