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from gaining a foothold. New York ha.s made provision for restocking 
the Adirondack region with moose, and has appropriated the sum of 
^o.OW for this pui*pose. Connecticut, in an 'Act concerning the estab- 
lishment of State game preserves,* ^ has authorized the commissioners 
of fisheries and game, upon petition of five resident landowners of any 
town, to lease tracts of woodland suitable for propagation of game, 
for terms of twenty-five or fifty years, at an annual rental not to 
exceed ^5 for each preserve.' 
Washington has followed the initiative taken by Colorado in coo|>er- 
ating with the Federal authorities to secure better enforcement of the 
game laws on the forest reserves by making all forest rangers ex officio 
game wardens. Forest rangers in Colorado have been invested with 
the same authority as deputy wardens for two years, but this was done 
by a regulation of the State game commissioner ^ and not by a pro- 
vision in the game law. as is the case in Washington. South Dakota 
has adopted a provision allowing only deputy game wardens to serve 
as guides. 
Among the numerous changes it is Vjut natural to find some example.s 
of retrograde legislation, but these are partly due to errors of omis- 
sion in the new laws, by which certain birds are deprived of the pro- 
tection they formerly enjoyed. Arizona has failed to provide a season 
for killing doves, but has. however, prohibited their sale. Connecticut 
has extended the open season for rail from January 1 to April 1, 
apparently for the sake of confonnity with the newly established season 
for plover and snij^e. thus permitting sale, if not shooting, in the spring. 
Illinois, through an unfortunate omission, failed to provide any close 
season for quail, woodcock, or i*ail, but the sale of quail is still pro- 
hibited under the old law. Indiana and Kansas, which formerly pro- 
tected doves at all times, have established o|)en seasons from August 15 
to January 1, and from Ju]\' 15 to September 15. respectively. New 
Jersey has omitted deer.* and Oregon, snipe from the new laws. Rhode 
Island, in amending the duck season, has removed protection entireh' 
from rail, snipe, plover, ^<^^^^^ and certain ducks, and has lengthened 
the open season for other ducks to April 1. thus peiTuitting spring 
shooting. 
On the whole, the legislation of 1901 is a distinct advance over that of 
any previous year, but much still remains to be done in the way of 
^Public Acts 1901, chap. 65, pp. 1215-1217. 
' A somewhat similar pro\ision ha.^ been in force for several years in Ontario, by 
which the Lieutenant-Go vemor-in-Coimci I is authorize<l to designate certain counties 
or portions of counties in which it is unlawful to hunt or kill deer at any time, thus 
in effect establishing deer preser\es. 
'Regulation No. 9, May 1, 1899. Division A, sec. 7, of the game law of 1899 pro- 
vider that the commissioner shall have power to prescribe such regulations as may 
be required to cany out the true intent of the act. 
*See footnote, p. 12. 
