ESTABLISHMENT OF GAME COMMISSIONS. 



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or district wardens. But as methods of game protection develop, the 

 local system becomes more and more inadequate, and most States have 

 replaced it with the stronger one in which the duties are committed to 

 a board of commissioners or to a State game warden and his assistants. 

 Evidence of the superiority of this plan is found in the fact that it has 

 now been adopted by 39 States, as shown in Plate I (frontispiece) and 

 in the following table: 



Table showing Dates of Establishment of Game Commissions and State Wardenships. 



state. 



Title. 



Date. 



Alabama . . 

 Arizona . . , 

 California . 



Colorado . 



Connecticut . 



Delaware. 



Idaho 



Illinois . . . 



Indiana 



Iowa . . , 

 Kansas 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts. 



Michigan.. 

 Minnesota. 



Missouri. 

 Montana 



Nebraska 



New Hampshire. 



New Jersey 



New Mexico. 

 New York . . . 



North Carolina . 

 North Dakota . . 



Ohio. 



Oklahoma . 

 Oregon 



Pennsylvania . . 

 Rhode Ishiiiil. .. 

 South Carolina . 

 Tennessee 



Texas 



Utah 



Vermont 



Washington . 



West Virginia .. 



Wisconsin 



Wyoming 



State game and fish "commissioner 



Fish and game commissioners 



Board of fish commissioners 



Jurisdiction extended to game 



state flsh commissioner 



Jurisdiction extended to game 



State game and fish commissioner 



Commissioners on fisheries 



Commission of fisheries and game 



Delaware game protective association 



Fisli and game warden 



Game warden (one for each of the three largest cities) . 



State game commissioner 



Commissioner of fisheries 



Commissioner of fisheries and game 



State fish and game warden 



Commissioner of fisheries 



State fish and game warden 



Commissioners of fisheries 



Jurisdiction extended to game 



Commissioners of inland fisheries and game 



Board of special ducking police 



Game warden 



Commissioners of fisheries 



Jurisdiction extended to game 



Game and fish warden department 



Commissioners of fisheries 



State game warden 



Board of game and fish commissioners , 



Game and fisli warden 



Board of game and fish commissioners 



State game and fish warden 



Game and fish commission 



Fish commission 



Board of fish and game commissioners 



Commissioners of fisheries 



Jurisdiction extended to game 



Board of fish and game commissioners 



Game and fish warden 



Commission of fisheries 



Chief game and flsh protector 



Forest, fisli, and game commission 



Audubon Society of North Carolina .■ 



State game warden 



District game warden 



Commissioners of fisheries 



Commissioners of fish and game 



Territorial game and fish warden 



Game and flsli protector 



Game and forestry warden 



Board of game commissioners 



Commissioners of birds 



Audulxin Society of South Carolina 



State warden 



State warden of game, fish, ami forestry 



Fish and oyster commissioner 



Game, tish, and oyster commissioner 



State fish and game warden 



State lisli and game commissioner 



Fish com mission 



I^ish and game commission. 



1907 

 1887 

 1870 

 1878 

 1877 

 1891 

 1899 

 1867 

 1895 

 1879 

 1899 

 1886 

 1899 

 1881 

 1899 

 1897 

 1877 

 1905 

 1878 

 1880 

 1899 

 1872 

 1896 

 1865 

 1886 

 1887 

 1874 

 1887 

 1891 

 1895 

 1895 

 1901 

 1901 

 1865 

 1878 

 1870 

 1894 

 1895 

 1903 

 1868 

 1888 

 1895 

 1903 

 1S95 

 1903 

 1873 

 1886 

 1899 

 1893 

 1899 

 1895 

 1899 

 1907 

 1903 

 1905 

 1895 

 1907 

 1897 

 1899 

 1867 



_ ^ _ _ 1892 



Fish and ganu; commissioner ISKIi 



(;ame warden 1 1»90 



State fish eoinmissionerand game warden j 1899 



Ganu! and lish warden i l^^J 



State warden | J^^l 



Fish commissioner | |^'° 



Jurisdiction extended to game - l''9>> 



State game warden 



1899 



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