GAME LAWS FOR 1913. 23 
PROVISIONAL OPEN SEASONS FOR GAME IN THE UNITED STATES 
AND CANADA, 1913. 
[The open seasons include the first date, but not the last. To find the close seasons, reverse the dales. 
Seasons which apply only to special counties are placed to the left of the column containing those for the 
State in general. Future dates, as Aug. 1, 1914, indicate that the season does not open until that time.] 
Alabama (1907-1911): Open seasons. 
Male deer (does protected all the year) Nov. 1-Jan. 1. 
Squirrel (black, gray, or fox) Oct. 1-Mar. 1. 
Quail or partridge Nov. 1-Mar. 1. 
Wild turkey gobblers (hens protected all the year) Dec. 1-Apr. 1. 
Ruffed grouse (pheasant), imported pheasant, or other introduced game birds Dec. 1-Dec. 15. 
Dove Aug. 1-Mar. 1. 
Plover, snipe , Nov. 1-Dec. 16. 
Yellowlegs Sept. 1-Dec. 16. 
Curlew, sandpiper, other shore birds, swan Sept. 1-Mar. 15. 
Woodcock Sept. 1-Jan. 1. 
Rail, coot, mud hens • Sept. 1-Dec. 1. 
Duck, goose, brant Sept. 1-Jan. 16. 
Alaska 1 (1910-1913): 
North of latitude 62°— 
Moose (females and yearlings protected all the year), caribou, sheep Aug. 1-Dec. 11. 
South of latitude 62°— 
Deer (see exception) Aug. 15-Nov. 2. 
Exception: Deer on Duke, Gravina, Kruzof, Suemez, and Zarembo Islands, 
Aug. 1, 1914; Kodiak and Long Islands, Dec. 10, 1914. 
Mountain goat Aug. 1-Feb. 2. 
Moose (females and yearlings protected all tne year), caribou (see exception), sheep . . Aug. 20- Jan. 1. 
Exception: Caribou on the Kenai Peninsula, Aug. 1, 1914. 
Brown bear Oct. 1-July 2. 
Throughout Territory- 
Grouse, ptarmigan, shore birds, waterfowl Sept. 1-Mar. 2. 
Arizona (1912): 
Male deer Oct, 1-Dec. 16. 
Female deer, spotted fawn, elk, antelope, sheep, goat No open season. 
Bobwhite, grouse, pheasant No open season. 
Quail Oct. 15-Feb. 2. 
Wild turkey Oct. 1-Dec. 10. 
Dove and white wing June 1-Feb. 2. 
Duck, goose, and brant Sept. 1-Dec. 16. 
Snipe, plover, yellowlegs Oct. 15-Dec. 16. 
Rail, coot, gallinule Oct. 15-Dec. 1. 
Arkansas (1901-1913): 
Deer (see exceptions) Sept. 1-Feb. 1. 
Exceptions: 
Chicot County Oct. 1-Feb. 1. 
Desha County Oct. 1-Jan. 1. 
Squirrel in Lee, Monroe, Phillips, and St. Francis Counties May 1-Dec. 1. 
Quail or partridge (see exceptions) Nov. 1-Mar. 1. 
Exceptions: 
Bradley and Dallas Counties Nov. 15-Mar. 1. 
Carroll, Columbia, Grant, and Lafayette Counties Dec. 10- Feb. 1. 
Boone County, quail Mar. 29, 1917. 
Calhoun county, nonresident not permitted to hunt quail or partridge. 
Prairie chicken, pinnated grouse (see exception) Nov. 1-Dec. 1. 
Exception: Prairie County Jan. 1, 1917. 
Wild turkey (see exception) Sept. 1-May 1. 
Exception: Chicot County Feb. 1-May 15. 
Pheasants (Chinese, English) 10 years Mar. 14, 1913. 
Dove No open season. 
Black-breasted and golden plover, jacksnipe, Wilson snipe, and yellowlegs 2 Sept. 1-Dec. 16. 
Woodcock Nov. 1-Jan. 1. 
Rail, coot, gallinule Sept. 1-Dec. 1. 
Duck, goose, brant Oct. 1-Jan. 16. 
1 Game animals or birds may be killed at any time for food or clothing by native Indians or Eskimo, or 
by miners or explorers in need of food, but game so killed can not be shipped or sold. 
2 See Regulation 4. 
