The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1950-07-20
Wildlife Council
Approves Huntinq
Rules For 1850
Four More Days
Added To Rabbit
Season This Year

The Ohio wildlife council,
meeting in Columbus last week,
adopted tentative hunting and
trapping regulations for the 1850
season. The rules will be subject
to official confirmation within
the next ten days.
In most cases the regulations
will remain the same as those in
effect last year.
Because it is impossible at this
time of the year to determine the
result of the spring reproduction
of game, the councils action
leaned toward conservative regu-
lations. The only available game
population information consists
of the estimated carry-over of
brood stock through the past
winter which is considered ex-
ceptionally good in spite of the
record-breaking game kill by the
hunters last season.
The open season on ringneck
pheasant will remain the same
as last year, No. Is thru Nov. rs
with a daily bag limit OF two
cock birds and possession limit
of two. Daily hunting hours will
be from 900 a. m. to SEQ d. m,
(EST) the same as last season.
The open season for rabbits
will include four more shooting
days than last year and will run
from Nov. Is thru Dec 80, a
total of 40 hunting days. Daily
bag and possession limits will be
the same as last year, four a day
and four in possession with the
hunting hours of from 900 a. m.
to 500 p. m.
All other hunting and trapping
regulations will be the same as
last year.
The councils action followed a
public hearing where members
of the wildlife council heard re-
commentators from each of the
farmer and sportsmen represen-
tatives of each of the present
seven districts. Recommendations
were also presented by indivi-
duals attending the hearing,
speaking either for themselves or
groups they represented thruout
the state.
Although some minor changes
in the 1850 regulations were re-
quested by the few district re-
representatives., generally speaking,
the recommendations called for
no change from the 1949 rules.
Two of the. districts asked that
the possession limit on pheasants
after the first day be increased
from two to four birds on the
| grounds that hunters travelling
long distances could get in a
second day of hunting and take
home a possible possession limit
of four birds rather than to have
their hunting end abruptly after
bagging their daily limit of two
Ipheasants in one day.
The council felt that, although
the estimated population might
Withstand the heavier kill OF
birds under such a change, il
might exert additional strain or
already-serious prob le m S o1
farmer-sportsmen relations. They
also considered the fact, in not
granting an increase in the pos
session limit, that with the more
widely distributed pheasant pop,
ulation of the past two year,
hunters will find good shooting
closer home.
| For the past two years the
Wildlife council has delayed set
ting seasons and bag limits OF
game until late in the summer
when nesting surveys were com
pleted. The delay has made i
impossible to have the law di
gests ready for distribution a
the time the hunting licenses ar,
shipped to agents about tn,
middle of August, causing
flood of complaints from tn,
hunters. Therefore, the council
this year agreed to adopt thu
regulations earlier basing thei
action on whatever population