COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION 
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I. We are in accord with the efforts of the State Conservation Board 
in the following policies: 
1. We urge immediate action for the preservation of our streams 
and lakes because when once lost they can never be reclaimed 
as can our forests. 
2. We endorse the policy of plant and game preserves along the 
rough lands of our streams and wish to encourage members of 
the Iowa Academy of Science to use these areas for scientific 
investigation. 
3. We endorse the further purchase of lands for the use of State 
and County Parks. 
4. We endorse the policy of setting aside the state parks for bird 
shelters and other purposes which call for undisturbed conditions. 
n. We sanction and urge the open and closed season for hunting and 
fishing be revised and re-adjusted on a scientific basis to conform 
with the habits of the game animals concerned. We specifically call 
attention to the following: 
1. Quail should be protected for another term of 5 years. 
2. Hunting licenses should end on December 31 of each year. 
3. The use of ferrets be prohibited, or each should bear a license 
the same as a hunter using them or a gun. 
4. The prosecutor should receive half the fine after the cost is de- 
ducted for the prosecution of game violators. 
5. In no case should muskrats be killed or molested by shooting, 
and the season for trapping them should be between November 1 
and March 1 inclusive. 
6. The open season for the fox squirrel should be from October 1 
to November 15 inclusive. The limit should be five squirrels in 
one day. 
7. No hunting license should be issued to individuals under eighteen 
years of age. 
8. Trappers should be heavily licensed or each set trap bear a 
license tag. 
9. The closed season for spring fishing should be so regulated that 
it covers the spawning season of our game fish. 
III. 1. We believe the State Legislature should protect and preserve for 
scientific investigation, the areas in which our Indian mounds and 
their burial grounds are located. Laws should be framed penalizing 
their destruction and the removal of relics therefrom. 
2. We sanction the purchase of such collections of Iowa Indian 
relics as have accurate data concerning their source. 
IV. We are in accord with the plant disease survey as carried on by the 
United States Department of Agriculture, and believe it will lead to 
the control of the great losses to our principal crops. 
All of which is respectfully submitted by 
B. Shimek G. a. Chaney 
H. E. Jaques W. H. Davis, Chairman 
G. B. MacDonald 
