The Fur Animals of Louisiana 



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This combination hunting and trapping license remained 

 in effect up to the 1923-1924 season, when a new law was 

 enacted which, while keeping the trapping license at $1.25, 

 did not include the right to hunt on it. In 1926 the legis- 

 lature enacted a new and revised fur law, raised the trap- 

 ping license to $2.00, giving the proceeds of the sale of the 

 license to the various parishes "to be used and expended in 

 said parish in aid of fur bearing animal conservation." 

 Under this regulation a trapper, who must be a resident of 

 Louisiana, is obliged to purchase a license in every parish 

 in which he traps. 



The table below will show the number of licensed trap- 

 pers that have taken the field the past ten years to take the 

 fur animals in Louisiana, as well as the number of buyers, 

 resident dealers and non-resident dealers taking out li- 

 censes : 



♦Combined with hunting license. 



To understand the distribution of the trappers through- 

 out the state the table on page 58, showing the number of 

 licensed trappers by parishes, is included in this bulletin. 

 A study of the licenses sold will show that the bulk of the 

 trappers carry on their quest for the fur animals in the 



