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FOREST AND STREAM 
GAME BAG LIMITS IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
These Maps Show at a Glance What the 
Different States are Doing in the Con-, 
servation of the Better Known 
Varieties of Game 
I T is difficult, even after read¬ 
ing so excellent and complete 
an authority as “Game Laws 
in Brief” to fix accurately in the 
mind just how all the states have 
legislated on the subject of game 
conservation, but the maps printed 
below, as prepared by the Biologi¬ 
cal Survey at Washington, and re¬ 
produced in Forest and Stream 
through the courtesy of the De¬ 
partment, visualize game law con¬ 
ditions throughout the country. 
Note that 13 states have placed close seasons 
on quail; note also that although separated by 
only imaginary boundary lines adjoining states 
allow quite liberal bags. So also in the matter 
of other game, bag limits vary widely. So far 
from showing the undesirability of Federal regu¬ 
lation even of migratory game birds, the map is 
an argument in favor, if not of national control, 
at least of some better adjustment between states. 
But remembering that our game laws are being 
tinkered at by something like eight or ten thou¬ 
sand state legislators annually, the wonder grows 
that conditions are no worse. 
Little Deeds of Thoughtfulness Like This 
Should Be a Part of Every Hunter’s 
Creed. 
servation Commission. In Vermont the doe law was 
suspended during the season of 1915. 
Map 2—The shooting of all kinds of ducks is per¬ 
mitted throughout the United States during the open 
season, with the exception of the wood duck in cer¬ 
tain States. 
Daily limits as shown on the map range from 10 in 
Maine and Oklahoma to 50 in Georgia. The limit in 
7 States is 15, in 1 State 18, in 12 States 20, in 1 State 
24, and in 13 States 25, while Oregon and Washington 
prescribe weekly limits only. 
Weekly limits: Washington, 20; Oregon, 30 in 7 con¬ 
secutive days; California and Michigan, 50. 
Seasonal or yearly limits: Oklahoma, 100; Florida, 300. 
Limits on the number in possession at one time are 
prescribed in 14 States: Idaho, Nevada, New Jersey, 
and New Mexico, one day’s bag; Missouri, 25; Colorado, 
North Dakota, and Washington, 30; Indiana, 45 (for 
3 or more days’ hunting); Minnesota, 45; Iowa, 
Nebraska, and South Dakota, 50; Illinois, 60. 
No limits are fixed in Kentucky, Maryland (except 
in two counties—Garrett, 6 a day, and Cecil, 25 a day 
on certain species), North Carolina, Pennsylvania, 
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia (except 
on Back Bay, 35 a day), and West Virginia. 
Map 3—Shaded areas show the 13 States in which the 
season on quail is closed for several years or in¬ 
definitely. In Oregon the counties of Coos, Curry, Jack- 
son, Josephine, and Klamath are the only ones open 
for quail shooting, and in Utah shooting is permitted 
only in the counties of Carbon, Davis, Garfield, Iron, 
Kane, Salt Lake, San Pete, Sevier, Uintah, Utah, 
Washington and Weber. 
Daily bag limits as shown on the map range from 
4 a day in Massachusetts and Vermont to 25 a day in 
Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, and South Carolina. In 
Maryland special daily limits are provided in 4 coun¬ 
ties: Garrett, 6; Baltimore, 10; Calvert, 12; Cecil, 6. 
In North Carolina, limits are prescribed in only about 
a dozen counties. 
Weekly limits: California, 20 mountain quail, 30 
valley quail; Pennsylvania and Washington, 25; Ore 
gon, 10 in 7 consecutive days. 
Seasonal or yearly limits: Massachusetts, 20; Con¬ 
necticut, 36; Pennsylvania, 40; Long Island, 50; West 
Virginia, 96; Oklahoma, 100; Florida, 300. 
Limits on the number in possession at one time are 
prescribed in 9 States: Nevada, New Mexico, and 
Utah, one day’s bag; Missouri, 15; Iowa, 25; Minnesota, 
30; Illinois, 36; Indiana, 45 (for 3 or more days’ hunt¬ 
ing); Nebraska, 50. 
No limits are prescribed in Kentucky, Rhode Island, 
or Virginia. 
Map 1—Deer hunting was permitted in 
36 States in 1915. 
Shaded areas show the States in which 
there was no deer hunting. 
Inclosed names indicate the States 
which protect does at all seasons. 
Figures indicate the number of deer 
allowed each hunter during a season. 
In Alaska the limit is 3 and in the 
eastern half of Maine and the southern 
half of New Hampshire 1 a season. In 
Alabama, Mississippi, and Missouri the 
limit is 1 a day, and in Louisiana, 2. 
In North Carolina limits are provided in 
a few counties only. No limits are pro¬ 
vided in Kentucky or Virginia. 
The law of New Mexico requires that 
deer killed must have horns; Utah, that 
the horns must be visible above the 
head; Pennsylvania, that the horns must 
be 2 inches above the hair; New York 
and Vermont, that the horns must be at 
least 3 inches long, and in West Virginia 
that the horns must be 4 inches long. 
In California, does and spike bucks, 
and in Wisconsin bucks in the velvet, or 
in the red, blue, or spotted coat, as well 
as does, are protected. In Louisiana, 
does are protected during the first month 
of the open season as fixed by the Con- 
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