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SPRING SHOOTING PROHIBITED 
NEW REGULATIONS OF MIGRATORY BIRD 
LAW CONTINUE SPRING CLOSED SEASON 
D ESPITE the pressure brought to bear to per¬ 
mit the taking of migratory fowl during 
the spring season, the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, backed by representative public opinion 
and co-operation of real friends of conservation, 
has resisted this pressure, and in the new regu¬ 
lations promulgated August 21 retains the spring 
closed season. The latest date for wild fowl 
shooting is January 31, and in many cases a month 
earlier. The official announcements by zones are 
given herewith; 
Open Seasons for Migratory Birds Under Fed¬ 
eral Regulations. (Dates are Inclusive. Ef¬ 
fective on and After August 21, 1916.) 
Zone 1 . 
Waterfowl (except Swans and Wood Ducks), 
Coots, Gallinules and Jacksnipes: 
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa¬ 
chusetts, New York (except Long Island), 
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, 
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska 
and Missouri .Sept. 16-Dec. 31 
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Long Island, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, Oregon, 
Nevada and Utah.Oct. i-Jan. 15 
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South 
Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Colo¬ 
rado .Sept. 7-Dec. 20 
Rails (except Coots and Gallinules) : 
. Sept. i-Nov. 30 
Vermont .Closed until Sept. 1, 1918 
Black-breasted and Golden Plover and Greater 
and Lesser Yellowlegs: 
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York (in¬ 
cluding Long Island) and New Jersey 
.Aug. 16-Nov. 30 
Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Ken¬ 
tucky, West Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, 
Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and 
Nevada .Sept. i-Dec. 15 
Wisconsin. Minnesota, North Dakota, South 
Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming 
. Sept. 7-Dec. 20 
Washington and Oregon.Oct. i-Dec. 15 
Utah .Closed until Sept. 1, 1918 
Jacksnipe: 
Same as waterfowl, coots and gallinules 
Woodcock . Oct. i-Nov. 30 
Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri, 
Closed until Oct. 1, 1918 
Zone 2 . 
Waterfowl (except Swans and Wood Ducks), 
Coots, Gallinules and Jacksnipe: 
Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, 
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis¬ 
sissippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, 
Nov. i-Jan. 31 
Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and 
California . Oct. 16-Jan. 31 
Rails (except Coots and Gallinules) : 
Sept. i-Nov. 30 
Louisiana. Nov. i-Jan. 31 
California.Closed until Sept. 1, 1918 
Black-breasted and Golden Plover and Greater 
and Lesser Yellowlegs: 
Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia 
and Virginia . Aug. 16-Nov. 30 
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, 
Nov. i-Jan. 31 
North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Okla¬ 
homa, New Mexico and Arizona 
Sept. i-Dec. 15 
California.Closed until Sept. 1, 1918 
Jacksnipe: 
Same as waterfowl, coots and gallinules 
Woodcock . Nov. i-Dec. 31 
Insectivorous birds protected indefinitely. 
Band-tailed pigeons, cranes, wood ducks, swans, 
curlew, willet, upland plover and smaller shore 
birds protected until September 1, 1918. 
Shooting prohibited between sunset and sun¬ 
rise. 
Consult State Laws. A state date governs when 
it opens the season later or closes it earlier than 
the Federal Regulations. 
The following statement with reference to the 
above regulations has been issued by the Federal 
Advisory Committee of the Migratory Bird Law: 
The members of the. Advisory Committee to 
the Department of Agriculture on the Migratory 
Bird Law, in view of the fact that new regula¬ 
tions setting forth closed seasons on migratory 
waterfowl and birds were made public August 
21, issued a statement as follows: 
To the People of the United States : 
The Advisory Committee appointed by the Sec¬ 
retary of Agriculture, Hon. D. F. Houston, to co¬ 
operate with the Bureau of Biological Survey in 
fixing the regulations for closed seasons on mi¬ 
gratory birds, as authorized by the Federal Migra¬ 
tory Bird Law, desires to state to the people of 
the country that after the most exhaustive inves¬ 
tigation, and the most careful consideration of 
every point raised, the regulations as promulgated 
were unanimously recommended by the members 
of this Committee. We realize the utter impossi¬ 
bility of even attempting to satisfy all that desire 
to shoot migratory birds. 
In recommending the regulations we were con¬ 
trolled by the following considerations : 
First—A most earnest desire to save from cer¬ 
tain depletion and threatened annihilation the 
valuable waterfowl, game and insectivorous 
birds which migrate across the United States 
twice each year. 
Second—To accord the hunters in the various 
states as nearly as possible an equal opportun¬ 
ity of taking migratory waterfowl and nomadic 
game birds. 
Third—To open the seasons during which these 
birds can be legally killed in those-months when 
under normal weather and food conditions the 
largest number of migratory waterfowl and 
birds sojourn in any particular state. 
Fourth—To absolutely eliminate spring shooting, 
when migratory waterfowl and birds on the 
northward migration are journeying towards 
their breeding grounds, thus impelled by the 
resistless force of nature, to mate, nest and 
reproduce their species. 
Fifth—To recognize unusual and extraordinary 
conditions existing in a few of the states, with¬ 
out affecting the equity or vested rights of the 
people of the whole country in the migratory 
wild life. 
Sixth—-To submit reasonable, practical, fair and 
just regulations that should invite the support 
of all true conservationists. 
Seventh—To guarantee not only to the present- 
generation a reasonable supply of migratory 
wild life, but to so protect it that it will multi¬ 
ply and be handed to future generations as 
their proper and rightful heritage. 
The imperative necessity for the enactment of 
the Federal Migratory Bird Law is palpable to- 
every thoughtful and discerning mind. 
Migratory wild life does not even recognize 
national, to say nothing of state, lines. The 
variability of the statutes of the states protect¬ 
ing these migrants, the lack of uniformity in these 
laws, the rapacity with which the nomadic birds 
are slaughtered by voracious annihilators of wild 
life in many of the states to the detriment of the 
