﻿GAME LAWS FOR 1913. 3 



An interesting experiment has been undertaken in Utah, where 

 the game commissioner, with the concurrence of the State board of 

 examiners, is authorized to set aside and maintain a public hunting 

 reserve in the counties of Salt Lake, Davis, and Box Elder. 



Numerous States are restocking preserves with elk and other big 

 game. In the effort to protect this game Pennsylvania, Vermont, 

 West Virginia, and Wisconsin have protected elk for a term of 

 years, and in Massachusetts, where a few moose have escaped from 

 the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve into the adjoining woodlands, a 

 perpetual close season for moose has been provided in the hope that 

 this area may eventually be restocked from this nucleus. 



REFUGES. 



One of the marked features of the legislation of the year was the 

 unusual progress in the establishment of bird and game refuges. 

 By Executive order four national bird reserves have been created, 

 the Aleutian Reservation, containing the entire chain of Aleutian 

 Islands, in Alaska, and the smaller reservations of Walker Lake 

 in Arkansas, Petit Bois Island on the coast of Alabama, and Anaho 

 Island in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, thus bringing the total number 

 of national bird reservations up to 64. During recent months the 

 Niobrara Bird Reservation has also been enlarged and stocked with 

 a herd of buffalo, elk, and deer. An item in the act of March 4, 

 1913, contains an appropriation for the completion and maintenance 

 of the elk refuge in Wyoming. 



No less than 18 State game preserves were created, 14 in the United 

 States and 4 in Manitoba. In Washington the county game com- 

 missioners were authorized to create game preserves, not to include 

 more than three townships in a county, and the authorities of Michi- 

 gan, Ohio, and Vermont were authorized to establish game preserves 

 by contract on private lands. The Pennsylvania commission set 

 aside a preserve in Center County for the protection of elk, deer, 

 and other game, and this reservation has already been stocked with 

 a herd of 10 elk secured from a private preserve. 



Montana created the Sun River Game Preserve in the Lewis and 

 Clark National Forest; Oregon, the Imnaha, Deschutes, Steen's 

 Mountain, Sturgeon Lake, Capitol, and Grass Mountain Preserves; 

 South Dakota, a preserve in Custer County and appropriated $15,000 

 for fencing and stocking it; Utah, the Strawberry Valley and Fish 

 Lake State game preserves; Washington, a preserve near Commence- 

 ment Bay on Puget Sound; and Wyoming modified the boundaries 

 of the Teton and Big Horn preserves and established three new refuges 

 known as the Laramie, Popo Agie, and Shoshone preserves. In 

 Canada, the Riding Mountain, Spruce Woods, Turtle Mountain, and 

 Duck Mountain game preserves were created in Manitoba. 



