CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



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NOVEL FISH AND GAME 

 LEGISLATION. 



A recent publication of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture (Farm- 

 ers Bull. 910) in giving a summary of 

 the game laws for 1917 calls attention to 

 the following novel game legislation : 



The first game law placed on the stat- 

 ute books of any state through the me- 

 dium of an initiative petition was adopted 

 in Arizona at the general election in 

 November, 1916. 



Hunting game with flying machines has 

 been made illegal in North Carolina by a 

 law prohibiting shooting waterfowl on 

 any of the waters of the state from an 

 airplane. 



Pennsylvania has imposed, as a penalty 

 for conviction for a second offense under 

 the game law, imprisonment equal to one 

 day for each dollar of the fine and denial 

 of license to hunt for two years. 



Utah has passed a law prohibiting 

 aliens from hunting in the state. 



Wisconsin has extended its provision 

 relative to seizure of paraphernalia used 

 in violation of game law to include auto- 

 mobiles, which, when used by persons 

 hunting illegally, may be confiscated by 

 conservation officers. 



The law in New Hampshire authoriz- 

 ing the payment of damages for injuries 

 to live stock caused by persons hunting 

 deer has been modified so that in future 

 such damages will be assessed by the 

 commissioner of agriculture and paid 

 from the fish and game fund. 



In South Carolina a specific tax on 

 game presei-ves was imposed on all hold- 

 ings in excess of 5,000 acres, except in 

 Berkeley County, the rate of taxation 

 being 2 cents an acre for tracts of 5,000 

 to 30,000 acres, 4 cents from 30,000 to 

 55,000 acres, and 5 cents for larger 

 tracts. 



Wyoming has provided for the estab- 

 lishment of zoological gardens in cities 

 and towns and authorized the game com- 

 mission to supply birds and animals for 

 the collections. 



Hunting on Sundays is prohibited in all 

 states and provinces east of the one 

 hundred and fifth meridian except Illi- 

 nois, Louisiana, Michigan, Texas, Wis- 

 consin, and Quebec. 



Section 8 of the Canadian Migratory 

 Birds Convention Act reads : "All guns, 



ammunition, boats, skiffs, canoes, punts 

 and vessels of every description, teams, 

 wagons and other outfits, decoys and 

 appliances of every kind, used in viola- 

 tion of or for the purpose of violating 

 this act or any regulation, and any bird, 

 nest or egg taken, caught, killed or had 

 in possession, in violation of this act or 

 any regulation, may be seized and con- 

 fiscated upon view by any game officer 

 appointed under this act, or taken and 

 removed by any person for delivery to 

 any game officer or justice of the peace." 



RECREATION. 



I know there is not a man living who 

 is tossed about month after month in 

 the bustle and bang of business life who 

 does not need a vacation ; he needs it for 

 his mental, moral and physical develop- 

 ment ; he needs the woods, the music of 

 our streams, the warbling of the birds, 

 and a chance to drive out the fetid air 

 of a stuffy office and dusty street and to 

 fill his lungs with pure, vigorous ozone 

 found in the woods and open fields. 



It is a misfortune to a man who does 

 not enjoy Nature's greatest tonic, which 

 she presents so freely in outdoor life. 

 Sometimes there comes a longing to all 

 of us for a camp fire in some shaded 

 spot close to some good spring of pure 

 water, with a frying pan over the coals, 

 from which comes the scent of bacon. 

 All of this can be found only in a life in 

 the broad and health-giving open. 



The greatest charm of nature is its 

 wild life. The beauty of the hills and 

 the mountains would be cold and deso- 

 late without the birds and animals that 

 have delighted man since the beginning 

 of time ; music of the rivers and streams 

 would be sad were it not for the sport 

 of "going a-fishing." 



Society is unconscious of the content- 

 ment to be found under the open sky and 

 in the silent places. Natural things are 

 wholesome, and a finer view of life and 

 deeper sympathy with and for all living 

 things is found along the primitive 

 paths. Men and women all over the 

 world are yearning for the simplicity of 

 other days ; are groping to find greater 

 moral and physical strength and true 

 happiness, which is apparently lost. — 

 Biennial Report, 191Jf-1916, Kansas 

 State Fish and Game Warden. 



