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CONSERVATION IN OTHER STATES. 



OREGON CONTEMPLATES INCREASE 

 IN ANGLERS' LICENSE. 



A number of the anglers of Oregon are 

 advocating an increase in the price of 

 angling licenses with the proviso that the 

 additional fifty cents be set aside in a 

 fund to be used exclusively in trout hatch- 

 ery work. Whether the license will be 

 raised from $1 to $1.50 will depend upon 

 the extent to which anglers support the 

 suggestion. 



THIRTY FATAL HUNTING ACCIDENTS 

 IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



Thirty lives was the toll taken by the 

 hunting season of 1916, although the total 

 accidents were only 102, considerably less 

 than the total accidents of 1915, of which 

 twenty-nine resulted in fatalities. The 

 decrease in the total number of accidents 

 and the fact that no one was mistaken 

 for game is accredited to widespread pub- 

 licity against promiscuous shooting. — 

 Pennsylvania Sportsman January, 1917, 

 p. 15. 



WANTED, BY NEW MEXICO SPORTS- 

 MEN. 



1. An efficient nonpolitical game 

 warden. 



2. The passage of the Game Refuge 

 Bill — with the scalp of the Mondell 

 Amendment attached. 



3. A law tacking the Federal Migra- 

 tory Bird Law to the Canadian Treaty. 

 Such a law will wipe out the last chance 

 of the spring-shooters. 



4. A federal fish hatchery for New 

 Mexico. 



5. Nationwide action to wipe out the 

 last trace of market hunting. 



6. Amendments to the state law sim- 

 plifying the seasons, bringing it into 

 conformity with the Migratory Bird Law, 

 and authorizing the governor to proclaim 

 temporary local closed seasons on any 

 species on any area at any time. — The 

 Pine Cone, January, 1917. 



UTAH BIRD SANCTUARY. 

 In an effort to save the rapidly disap- 

 pearing wild bird life of the state, arrange- 

 ments have been completed for the 



establishment of Utah's first bird sanc- 

 tuary, to cover an area of 700 acres. The 

 use of the land is given free virtually to 

 the state by property owners of the big 

 Cottonwood district, about four miles east 

 of Murray. 



State Fish and Game Commissioner 

 Chambers will place quail and pheasants 

 on the land, and his deputies will sprinkle 

 feed there when the heavy snows of win- 

 ter make it difficult for the birds to find 

 anything to eat. — Blue-Bird, December, 

 1916. 



GAME WARDENS TO BE UNIFORMED. 



The wardens of the Conservation Com- 

 mission of New York are to wear uni- 

 forms hereafter. The orders have been 

 given because the commission believes 

 that a uniform as a means of identifica- 

 tion is appreciated by the public. 



That a game warden be easily identified 

 by people is important, but there is dan- 

 ger that the wearing of a uniform will 

 afford a ready identification to the viola- 

 tor. Most states have thus far avoided 

 the uniform and have believed more 

 largely in the "plain clothes man" as an 

 effective game warden. 



SIXTH NATIONAL CONSERVATION 

 CONGRESS. 



Among the resolutions passed by the 

 Sixth National Conservation Congress, 

 held in Washington, D. C, on May 4, 1916, 

 were those favoring the Chamberlain- 

 Hayden bill and the Federal Migratory 

 Bird Law. The following recommenda- 

 tions in the interest of aquatic life were 

 also made : 



a. That the states prohibit the un- 

 necessary polluting of public waters ; 



ft. That the fisheries in interstate 

 waters be regulated by uniform laws, with 

 the consent of Congress, not to be changed 

 by one state without the concurrence of 

 the other states affected. 



c. That increased attention be given 

 to the cultivation of fish in ponds on 

 farms; 



d. That the states take such action as 

 will prevent the destruction of fish life 

 in connection with irrigation. — Recrea- 

 tion, August, 1916, p. 78. 



BURLINGAME 

 PUBLIC 



