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1911. Congress. — Act creating the Appalachian Park (36 Stat., 961); appropriation of 

 $20,000 for feeding, protecting, and removing elk from Jackson Hole, Wyo. 

 (36 Stat., 1258). (See also Arizona.) 



Arizona. — Protection accorded antelope under Territorial law extended by- 

 act of Congress until March 1, 1913 (36 Stat., 912, sec. 6). 



California. — Division of the State into 6 game districts (chap. 241); investigation 

 of the game commission (Western Field, vol. 17, pp. 40-56, May, 1911). 



Delaware. — General revision of the game laws; provision for enforcing the laws 

 by a board of game and fish commissioners instead of by the Delaware Game 

 Protective Association (chap. 162). 



Georgia. — General game law providing a license system, bag limits, and office 

 of State fish and game commissioner, and prohibiting sale and export 

 (chap. 238). 



Idaho. — Creation of a State preserve for big game by closing the season for five 

 years in Bear Lake, Cassia, Oneida, and Twin Falls Counties (chap. 208). 



Illinois. — Close term for woodcock for four years; opening the season on prairie 

 chicken with a bag limit of 3 a day for the first time in eight years; prohibiting 

 the use of rifles for shooting waterfowl; repealing the restrictions on baiting 

 waterfowl; and abolishing the State game fund (H. B. 676). 



Kansas. — Act revising the game law and placing the State warden's office under 

 the supervision of the University of Kansas (chap. 198). 



Louisiana. — Donation to the State of 15,000 acres in Vermilion Parish by Chas. 

 W. Ward and E. A. Mcllhenny as a game preserve (Forest and Stream, Vol. 

 LXXVII, p. 167, July 29, 1911). 



Michigan. — Repeal of act providing penalty for careless shooting of human 

 beings (No. 38). 



Montana. — Establishment of the Snowy Creek, Pryor Mountain, and Yellow- 

 stone game preserves (chaps. 87, 100). 



New Jersey. — Adoption of plumage law modeled on Shea bill of New York 

 (chap. 168). 



New York. — Passage of the Bayne bill providing for prohibiting the sale of 

 native game, permitting traffic in certain kinds of imported game, and requir- 

 ing all game to be tagged before being placed on the market (chap. 438); 

 provision for a conservation commission of three members to replace the 

 forest, fish, and game commission, the State water supply commissioner and 

 the forest purchasing board (chap. 647). 



Shea plumage law in effect July 1. Attack on law defeated by dismissal 

 by United States circuit court of application for injunction to restrain State 

 officers from enforcing its provisions. 



North Dakota. — Acts setting aside the islands in Devils Lake as a bird reserve 

 (chap. 139), establishing a game preserve in the Killdeer Mountains (chap. 

 143), and prohibiting use of automobiles or rifles in shooting wild fowl (chap. 

 141). 



Oregon. — Acts replacing the office of game and forestry warden by a fish and 

 game commission of five members (chap. 152); providing for the establishment 

 by the governor of bird and game refuges (chap. 264). 



Tennessee. — Laws prohibiting the sale of robins and quail (chaps. 18, 34). 



Texas. — Establishment of a game preserve of 1,220,000 acres on the King ranch, 

 in the southwestern part of the State, with more than 100 lodges for rent to the 

 public (Texas Field, Feb., 1911, p. 78). 



Vermont. — Laws changing the deer season and protecting does absolutely 

 (No. 193), authorizing the game commissioner to appraise deer on forest land 

 inclosed for a private park, and to sell them to the owner of the park (No. 211). 



