THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 285 
CHANGES IN MIGRATORY BIRD 
REGULATIONS 
HE United States Department of Agriculture announces the promul- 
4% gation of amendments of the migratory bird regulations, to be 
effective on and after October 15, 1917. 
One of the changes permits migratory game birds to be hunted from 
half an hour before sunrise to sunset during the open season, subject, 
however, to the provisions of state laws restricting shooting during 
that time. 
Other changes in the open seasons are as follows: 
In the states now having an open season from September 7 to 
December 20—Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon- 
tana, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho—the open season is changed to 
September 16 to December 31, both days inclusive. All of these states, 
with the exception of South Dakota and Wisconsin, recently amended 
their laws by opening the season on September 16 or later and closing 
it on December 31 or earlier. In South Dakota and Wisconsin the season 
closes on December 20, in accordance with the laws of those states. 
The open season in Eastern Oregon and Washington and in Nevada 
and Pennsylvania is also September 16 to December 31. The open sea- 
son, October 1 to January 15, is unchanged in Rhode Island, Connecticut, 
that portion of New York known as Long Island, New Jersey, Utah and 
that portion of Oregon and Washington lying west of the summit of the 
Cascade Mountains, which constitute the balance of the northern zune. 
In response to numerous inquiries, the department announces that 
the migratory bird regulations are not to be construed to authorize 
the hunting of migratory birds at a time when it is unlawful to hunt 
them under state laws, 
‘BOY SCOUT PROTECTIONISTS 
(From Forest and Stream.) 
the country, the Boy Scouts are taking much interest in game pro- 
tection. They are reporting various abuses to game commissioners 
and game wardens, and in Oregon a plan is on foot to appoint a certain 
number of them as game wardens. This is an excellent plan, for more 
reasons than one. The boy is interested in everything that goes on, 
is active, energetic and pushing. If he can be made to see that game 
protection, and conservation generally, is a good thing, he will become 
deeply interested in it, and will give his best efforts to the work. So 
after a time he may accomplish great things. Moreover, a boy started 
in the right direction is likely, as he grows older, to recognize more 
and more clearly the value to the community of the protection of birds, 
animals and plants. He will study these forms of life, learn about them, 
and may become for his whole life a sturdy worker in behalf of these 
good objects. Boys so trained will not only do excellent work for the 
present, but they will learn to be all through their lives good sportsmen 
and useful members of the community. 
]: certain parts of Oregon and California, as in other places all over 
