FOREST AND STREAM 
1061 
PROTEST AGAINST SPRING SHOOTING. 
Cedarville, Ill., June 5, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
New regulations governing the open seasons 
on migratory wild fowl, under which ducks and 
geese may be killed in the states of Illinois, Iowa, 
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri from February 9 
to March 11, have been formulated by the Bio¬ 
logical Survey. 
This re-opening of spring shooting in the Mid¬ 
dle West is the result of insistent demands by 
market-hunters, who have perfected a fighting 
machine of no mean ability. They have estab¬ 
lished a newspaper, sent a representative to 
Washington to present their case. before the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, and enlisted the aid of 
Congressmen and United States Senators. They 
have banded pot-hunters together by the forma¬ 
tion of clubs in practically every city and hamlet, 
and were successful in prevailing upon the Bio¬ 
logical Survey to send a representative on two 
separate tours through Southern Illinois and 
Missouri, to meet the clubs and listen to their 
demands. That their efforts have been reason¬ 
ably successful is attested by the fact that new 
regulations granting nearly all the privileges de¬ 
manded have been issued, to go into effect Aug.. 15. 
While the pot-hunters have been thus active, 
the sportsmen, conservationist, Audubon Socie¬ 
ties and some sportsmen’s magazines have been 
peacefully slumbering, oblivious to an assault 
upon a cherished American institution. For this 
is not only a question of wild life conservation. 
It is a revival of the question of state’s rights. 
I can perhaps better illustrate the injustice and 
the un-American spirit shown in the formulation 
of these proposed new regulations, by reference 
to my individual case. I am a resident of North¬ 
ern Illinois and under these new regulations I 
may shoot ducks from September 15 to Novem¬ 
ber 16 and from February 9 till March 11, while 
the sportsman living just nine miles north must 
stop all shooting on December 21. Under the 
Federal Law and under laws governing the mi¬ 
gratory period he is forced to stop from twenty 
to thirty days before the date named under the 
Federal regulations. In other words, Nature’s 
laws curtail his fall shooting while the Federal 
law deprives him of all spring shooting. 
The lack of data evidenced by a perusal of 
these proposed new regulations is appalling and 
the unpleasant knowledge is forced upon the 
reader that the cause of conservation is in sore 
straits and sadly in need of aid from outside the 
Biological Survey. 
The re-opening of spring shooting in the Mid¬ 
dle West is not only a step backward in the cause 
of wild life conservation, but it establishes a pre¬ 
cedent far reaching in the entailment of evil 
consequences. For when the present regulations 
are changed to meet the vicious demands of an 
organized band of the destroyers of our wild life, 
it is only reasonable to suppose that a similar de¬ 
mand, made by a well organized force anywhere 
in the North would receive the same favorable 
consideration from this same Bureau. In fol¬ 
lowing this proposition to its logical conclusion 
—taking into consideration the difference in lati¬ 
tude between Missouri and Northern Minnesota, 
with the attendant shortening of the season of 
one day for every twelve miles north from , a 
given point, it is evident that if the Department 
of Agriculture wished to be fair and impartial, 
the open season in the northern section of Zone 1 
would be made to extend up to the first of May. 
It is apparent that vigorous action is necessary 
if the cause of wild life conservation is to evade 
a damaging blow—a blow that it will take years 
of hard work to repair, and that might have been 
stopped in its incipiency had the leaders in the 
conservation movement been awake. But it is 
not too late. The battle is not yet lost. Much 
can be done in the way of circulating petitions 
and presenting evidence before the Bureau of 
Biological Survey before August 16. And though 
we have lost the first scrimmage through somno¬ 
lence, the decisive battle may yet be won by our 
forces, providing we have efficient officers. 
Now, brother sportsmen, the time for slumber 
is past. Duty calls you to arms. 
And let your battle cry be: No spring shooting. 
Wm. Reiniger. 
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