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 Island... 

 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 fish commissioner 



Jurisdiction extended to game 



State game and fish commissioner 



Commissioners on fisheries 



Commission of fisheries and game - 



Delaware game protective association 



Fish 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 fish 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 fish protector 



Forest, fish, and game commission 



Audubon Society of North Carolina 



State game warden 



District game warden 



Commissioners of fisheries 



Commi> sio.iers of fish and game 



Territorial game and fish warden 



Game and fish protector 



Game and forestry warden 



Board of game commissioners 



Commissioners of birds 



Audubon Society of South Carolina 



State warden 



State warden of game, fish, and forestry 



Fish and oyster commissioner 



Game, fish, and oyster commissioner 



State fish and game warden 



State fish and game commissioner 



Fish commission 



Fish and game commission 



Fish and game commissioner 



Game warden 



State fish commissioner and game warden 



Game and fish warden 



State warden 



Fish commissioner 



Jurisdiction extended to game 



State game warden 



1907 



1887 

 1870 

 1878 

 1877 

 1891 

 1899 

 1867 

 1895 

 1879 

 1899 

 1885 

 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 

 1895 

 1903 

 1873 

 1886 

 1899 

 1893 

 1899 

 1895 

 1899 

 1907 

 1903 

 1905 

 1895 

 1907 

 1897 

 1899 

 1867 

 1892 

 1904 

 | 1890 

 1899 

 1897 

 1891 

 1879 

 1895 

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