GAME AND BIRD REFUGES. 



Four different classes of game and bird refuges may be included 

 within the National Forests: National game refuges 



Four classes. i i j_i i -iv f - i 



or areas in which the killing of game annuals is pro- 

 hibited by acts of Congress ; National bird refuges or areas in wnich 

 the killing of birds is prohibited by acts of Congress; State game pre- 

 serves, or areas in which the killing of game is prohibited by the 

 legislature of the State or Territory; and protected areas or areas 

 closed to the grazing of all classes of stock in order to protect game 

 in its natural feeding or breeding grounds, but where hunting is 

 allowed by the State Taws. 



National game refuges are created by specific acts of Congress for 



the purpose of preventing trespass upon public lands 



^ National game ref- j n ^ Qv ^ protect game an ^ J^s. Within a 



National game refuge local game laws apply only on 

 private, State, or Territorial lands. 

 The hunting, trapping, capturing, or killing of game animals upon 



a National game refuge in violation of any of the 

 rangen? ority f regulations for their protection prescribed by the 



Secretary of Agriculture under the authority of the 

 statute creating it is a violation of the statute, and offenders will 

 be tried in the United States district courts and not in the State 

 or Territorial courts. Under authority granted by Congress, rangers 

 are empowered to arrest persons violating National game refuge 

 regulations. 



In making arrests Forest officers must be certain that the hunting, 

 Arrests trapping, capturing, or killing of the game animals 



took place upon Government land within the limits 

 of the National game refuge and not upon land in private, State, 

 or Territorial ownership, and must be prepared to prove these facts 

 before the United States commissioner and in subsequent court 

 proceedings. 



When a game warden is appointed from the United States Civil 

 Game wardens Service list for a game preserve within a National 



Forest he may be designated as acting supervisor 

 and be placed in charge of the Forest, but game wardens who are not 

 placed in charge of a Forest will work under instructions from the 

 Supervisor the same as other Forest officers. 



National bird refuges have been created under authority of an 



act of Congress, by Executive proclamation or order. 

 ^National bird ref- Tne hunting, trapping, capturing, willfully disturbing, 



or killing any bird of any kind whatever or taking the 

 eggs of such birds on any lands of the United States within National 

 bird refuges in violation of any of the regulations prescribed by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture is a violation of the statute. Legal pro- 

 cedure and action on the part of Forest officers in cases of violation 

 of the regulations on National bird refuges will be the same as on 

 National game refuges. 



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