The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-11-16
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/ BY Chuck Rattle
It's Tall Tales Now
Best Season In Years
Conservation Is the Apple
Waste Must Be Controlled
Alma Mater Feud-
Give the Boys a Pat
On the Back for Me-
Well, it's all over now but the
shoot mean the shouting. And
If you know anything about hunt
ers you'll know that the shouting
goes on long after the echoes have
died in the hills from the guns.
For now the tales start. From the
simmering fire sides Of the hang
outs now are conjured up the fam
ciful visions of the boys who were
there. From now on the reports get
color. And that's the part about
hunting that makes it year round
sport. The hunt and then the
tales. And that's what makes any
sport.
The season that ended Tues
day Is, on the best authority
can get, the best for hunters
in years. And that authority Is
the published statement of the
game and fish division of the
state department of cOnserva-
ton. Besides haven't the
boys been telling me here it's
just plenty too good? More
ducks than In long time. More
geese taken on the opening day
than i'm most seasons.
Dozens Of unsolicited reports in
this locality that hunting was
gOOd-but plenty. -.
But even as the commission is
sues this joyous report, it has one
eye on the future. What of the kids
growing up who'll take to the gun?
What do they know of conserva-
tion2 For it is unquestioned that
the good sportsman is a conserva-
zionist. To that end the COM
mission is bending all efforts to
make the growing generation con-
servation conscious. Toward this
motive public schools are more and
more attaching value to nature
study. In the earlier grades pup
lis are taught to draw birds and
animals, learn simply Of their hab-
its. Older, they are more technically
exposed to the problems of conser-
walton and the fact that conserva-
ton is thing to be done now
not later! The hope of our
nations future lies in rearing a
generation which does not have to
learn by painful and costly exper-
fence but is endowed with an edu-
cation that stresses program of
real conservation of natural re-
sources, says the commission.
That may sound like preaching, but
with the desolation of our virgin
natural resources, the need for con-
servation is imminent. =.
Besides that it Is largely true
that the reason fishing and
hunting is getting back to what
it used to be to some degree
is simply applied rules Of con-
servatiOn.
Speaking statewise. we find
more than 700,000,000 wall-eye pike
fry have been poured into Minneso-
ia waters; released were more than
$4,000 ring necked pheasants; 1900
bobwhite quail; 10000 chukar part
ridges. And the list goes on.
But let's speak locally for a while.
.. A farmer came to me not long
ago. He had no actual evidence
that hunters had caused the fires
that sprung up on his place, but
ruling that out, it's still something
to think about. In the dry of
autumn carelessly tossed cigarettes
can touch off a section Of meadow
or a wooded lot. Farmers gen.
orally aren't selfish about the use
of their land. Most Of them don't
want to exclude hunters. But it's
hard to find reasonable excuses
when a man comes and says that
he fought fires all one weekend be-
cause someone crossing his land
was careless. So do be careful,
fellas. That's conservation, too,
you know.
There's another angle sportsmen
have talked about locally. That's
elimination of waste. It's admitted
today, with more and more going
hunting each year, that the amount
Of wounded game lost in inacces-
sible spots is pretty high piece
of waste. It's become so much
a part Of the scheme of things
that to estimate what part of the
actual duck take is lost would be
only foolhardy guesswork. How
much it figures in the actual kill
ing of game during the year isn't
known, of course :. +. Yet on sew
eral instances hunters have report
ed here having dogs bring in one,
two, three-and even up to seven
ducks-all cripples. Without
dogs, they admit, they'd never have
found these wounded birds that
would have otherwise died. And
there is hint that sportsmen-and
he's the guy you remember who
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