The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-01-30
RECORD ATTENDANCE OF OVER 75 AT MEETING
 OF sPORTsMENs CLUB

-ea aIa4s, President oI the Silk ..aa apartsmeu Association, called tue meeting Lo order last Monday uguJ n Jue Fire Hau with re- cod attendance of over 70 local spottsmen present.
 a..eslueut EIas reported on what the IelursDurg 5portsmeus AssO- glagl0u uad recommended to the uaue Commission Ior new game .IesulauUus Tor lhe coming year.
 h Iluuse Agent Hosea SarDer, wno came over lom Petersburg to attend tue Wrangeu meeting, re- ported lual zl moose mad been tax ell oIl tue 5llAIne River this year, WIJh eIgug ol chem going to Pet eI sbus aud lo lO MrangelL. The Association recommended that the aaae Commission place warden uu lhe IIEer oAe week before the moose season opens and keep hlm tnere until one week after the sea son closes.
 IHe Iaeal 4a5aoetaltuu Coucurruu oIJn aue Petersburg Association Iu ashlus taaJ Jne soat season De eA- genuea guJ asneu IJT tue eAteus4Uu 10 November 10 instead Of NOyem- er oU ds requested Uy IeLgIsDuIg.
 To prevent DIs game hunters lrom saoguus local meat anlmals aiter they have. tueIr bear umlJ, lue local Association recommended lual tae aame Commission allow u4g same hunters 10 get one of taer gIa14Iy bear on the mainland. lnla Will aIIoW the Dlg game hunt els mole hunting but save the meat animals Tor local hunters.
 Ine felersDurg and local AssO- cIauous are both asking that the bag umIt on ducks and geese be the same iu Alaska as In Canada. 1ne British Columbia bag limit Is seven ducks d day with no more than lOO per season and live geese a day With n0 more than 70 per season. IL Was further asked that hunters se allowed to have ducks Ill possession 12O days after close OI the season.
 IetersDurg asked the duck sea be changed to October To to Dec enBer Io, however local sportmeu agreed 5nat weather iu December is sea4lally to- severe for duck au4.u..-s and asked that the dates 5e sel at October 1 to November 30.
 apgrtsmen present voted uuanl- .uousIy To recommend that it be -.-aae uAIa0iul to shoot mink and -uaed lurtuer that. all mink should De tagged to help prevent illegal trapping. Opinion of those present "as that the mink season should be closed next year with marten season open instead, but that the mink season, when open, should re- main as at present.
 (. Howard Baltzo brought a pair .JI gloves to the meeting made from deer hide and explained the pro- .cedure he went through to get the hide shipped out, tanned and tail ored. The Association went on re- cord to ask the Game Commission to lower the import-export license fee on deer hides and allow them to be sold at a nominal price though not high enough to make killing of deer for their hides pro- fitable Carl Bradley moved that all hides, such as moose, caribou and goat, be included, which mo- Lion carried.
 Wildlife Agent Sarber reported that the Game Commission had poisoned over 500 wolves in the past three years, with no harm to other animals. The Stikine Sports men's Association went on recoru endorsing the wolf poisoning pro gram as carried out by the Com mission and recommended that it be enlarged.
 Subject of nonresident trapping licenses was taken up and after considerable discussion it was re- commended that nonresident trap ping licenses be raised to $500; the Petersburg Association had re- commended that no nonresident trapping licenses be issued.
 The Association voted to oircul- ate petition asking that the local U. s. Commissioner be a little more severe with penalties for violation of game laws. It was brought out that several violators this year had gotten off so easy that 1t all most made illegal hunting ana trapping profitable. The Associa- tion further recommended that H. censes be revoked on a first law violation instead Of the second.
 Another meeting of the Stikine Sportsmen's Association will be held Monday evening in Elk's Hall over Bjorge's garage to further discuss regulations and have elec- tion of officers.