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CHEONOLOGY AND INDEX. 



warden department, with first salaried war- 

 den Michigan, 1887; game warden, Wiscon- 

 sin, 1887; chief fish and game protector, New 

 York, 1888; special constable, Wyoming, 

 1890; game and fish protector, Oregon, 1893; 

 game and fish warden, Missouri, 1895; West 

 Virginia, 1897; New Mexico, 1903; fish and 

 game warden, Iowa, 1897; Utah, 1897; Idaho, 

 1899; State warden, Tennessee, 1903; war- 

 dens, Georgia, 1903; South Carolina, 1907; 

 Alaska, 1908; game warden made fire warden, 

 Michigan, 1907; chief game warden, South 

 Carolina, 1910; office under supervision of 

 University, Kansas, 1911 (see also Commis- 

 sioners). 



Warden as guide, South Dakota, 1901. 



Ward-McHhenny Game Preserve, Louisiana, 1911. 



Warrant, arrest without, by members of Central 

 Association, New Jersey, 1874; search with- 

 out, Massachusetts, 1904; Ohio, 1904. 



Washington, first game law, 1805; game warden, 

 1890; hounding prohibited throughout State, 

 1890; establishment of Mount Rainier Na- 

 tional Park, 1899; Mount Olympus National 

 Monument, 1909; silencers, 1909; aliens not 

 permitted to own guns except under license 

 and consular certificate, 1911. 



Waste of game prohibited, Wyoming, 1871, 1882; 

 Colorado, 1872. 



Water, killing deer in, prohibited, Michigan, 1887; 

 Wisconsin, 1897; North Carolina, 1905; shoot- 

 ing wildfowl in open water prohibited, 

 Now Jersey, 1852; using batteries or blinds in 

 North Carolina (Currituck Sound), 1870; 

 Wisconsin, 1887. 



Waterfowl protected, Indiana, 1879; Delaware, 

 1885. 



Weasels, use prohibited in hunting rabbits, Rhode 

 Island, 1860. 



Weeks bill (migratory birds), 1908. 



AVcst Jersey Game Protective Association incor- 

 porated, New Jersey, 1873; act repealed, 1896. 



West Virginia, first game law, 1868; first compre- 

 hensive nongame bird law, 1869; shooting on 

 land of another near occupied dwelling pro- 

 hibited, 1875; spring shooting prohibited, 

 1875; game and fish warden, 1897; A. O. U. 

 "model law." 1907; repeal of resident license 

 and removal of protection on rabbits, 1911. 



Wichita game refuge, Oklahoma, established, 1905; 

 appropriation for fencing, 1906; transfer of 

 buffalo, 1907. 



Wildfowl, first protection, Virginia, 1832, 1833; 

 night shooting prohibited, Virginia, 1832; 

 New Jersey, 1859, North Carolina, 1869; use 

 of skiffs in hunting prohibited, Virginia, 1839; 

 nonresidents prohibited from killing, Dela- 

 ware, 1839; Virginia, 1841, 1842; close season 

 (ducks) California, 1852; prohibition of sale 

 of killed in the State, Illinois, 1903; sailing 

 for, prohibited, New York, 1886; 



Wild goose, close season, Ohio, 1857; Nevada, 1861. 



Wild hogs, hunting without notice, Alabama, 1856. 



Wild pigeon, netters protected, Massachusetts, 1848; 

 last nesting, New York, 1868; last roosting, 

 New York, 1875; nesting and roosting grounds 

 protected, New York, 1862, 1867; Michigan, 

 1869; Pennsylvania, 1878; open season, Massa- 



Wild turkey (first close season New York, 1708); last 

 record in New York, 1844; close season, 

 St. Louis County, Mo. 1851; Alabama (3 

 counties), 1854; snaring or catching in pens 

 prohibited, Alabama (3 counties), 1854; bait- 

 ing and blinds prohibited, Pennsylvania, 

 1869; close Jerm 6 years, New Jersey, 1874; 

 introduced in California, 1908. 



Wisconsin, first game laws, 1851; prohibiting trap- 

 ping game birds, 1854; publication of game 

 laws, isr.7; prohibiting spring shooting, pro- 

 hibiting killing birds for millinery purposes, 

 authorization of 4 game wardens, and publica- 

 tion of fish and game laws in pamphlet form, 

 1887; State game warden, 1891; prohibiting 

 spring shooting conditional on action of other 

 States, 1893; nonresident licenses, 1897; 

 killing deer in the water or on the ice, 1897; 

 marking packages of fish and game, 1899; 

 civil-service law, 1905; first oral examinations 

 for game wardens, 1909; license fees to be paid 

 into general fund of State, 1911. 



Woodcock, close season, New York, 1791; Massa- 

 chusetts, 1818; New Jersey, 1880; summer 

 shooting prohibited, Rhode Island, 1846; 

 Ohio, 1857; bag limit, Iowa, 1878; close term, 

 Louisiana, 1904; Illinois, 1911. 



Wood duck, close term, Louisiana, 1904. 



Written permission to hunt, Alabama (9 counties), 

 1891; Indiana, 1891; North Carolina (1 J coun- 

 ties), 1899; decision in Hyde v. State, Ala- 

 bama, 1908. 



Wyoming, first game law (sale), 1869; uniform open 

 season for big game and prohibition of waste, 

 1882; close seasons, buffalo and other big 

 game, 1890; special [game] constables, 1890; 

 nonresident licenses, 1S95; jurisdiction of fish 

 commissioner extended to game, 1895; guide 

 license, 1899; State game preserve, 1905; li- 

 cense for photographing big game, 1905; 

 incursion of Indians from Colorado, 1906; 

 Yellowstone tusk hunters convicted, 1907; 

 tusk hunting made a felony, 1907; appropria- 

 tion for feeding big game, 1909; transfer of 25 

 elk from Jackson Hole to Big norn Game Pre- 

 serve, 1910; game commission, 1911; appro- 

 priation for feeding elk, 1911. 



Yards, killing deer when yarded prohibited, New 

 York, 1886. 



Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., established, 

 1872; act protecting game, 1894: tusk hunters 

 convicted, 1907. 



Yosemite National Park, Cal., established, 1890. 



Young deer protected. (See Fawns.) 



