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cut on squirrels and waterfowl; in New Hamp¬ 
shire on quail, ruffed grouse, and woodcock; and 
in Pennsylvania on bear. Indiana opened the 
season on prairie chickens for the first time in 
several years, and provided a limit of five birds 
per day. 
Reductions in limits were made on deer in 
Alaaska from 6 to 3, in Montana from 3 to 2, 
and in Michigan and Nevada from 2 to 1. In the 
case of birds the more important reductions in 
daily bag limits were made in Illinois on doves 
from 15 to 10; in Iowa on quail from 25 to 15, 
and on prairie chickens from 25 to 8; in Minne¬ 
sota on all birds except ducks, from 15 to 10; in 
Oklahoma on quail, plover, snipe, and ducks, from 
25 to 10. Only a few increases were provided: 
In Illinois on shore birds, in Missouri on birds 
(except turkeys) from 10 to 15, and in Nevada 
on quail from 15 to 20. 
Licenses. 
Resident licenses were provided for the first 
time in three Southern States—Arkansas, South 
Carolina, and Tennessee. Arkansas established a 
$1 license for deer and a $1 license for dogs used 
in hunting quail; South Carolina a license of $1 
for hunting in the country and $3 in the State, 
but 27 counties were exempt from the operation 
of the act; and Tennessee a $1 license for the 
county and $2 for the State. New Mexico and 
Vermont joined the list of States which now is¬ 
sue combined hunting and fishing licenses. 
Delaware, following the example of West Vir¬ 
ginia in 1913, repealed the resident license pro¬ 
vision adopted two years ago, while West Vir¬ 
ginia restored the license by issuing free licenses 
to persons hunting in the county of residence 
and requiring a fee of $3 to hunt elsewhere in 
the State. Fees for non-resident licenses were 
reduced in Illinois from $15 to $10, in Maine 
from $25 to $15, and for the special elk resident 
license in Wyoming from $15 to $10. New 
Hampshire and South Carolina, on the other 
hand, increased the non-resident fee in each case 
from $10 to $15, and Manitoba the resident big 
game license from $2 to $4. Exemptions were 
provided in a few cases—notably in Illinois, 
which allows veterans of the Civil War to hunt 
without a license, and in Oregon, which issues 
free licenses to veterans. In the latter State 
women are now allowed to hunt and fish without 
license, but in New Mexico similar privileges are 
not granted. North Dakota allowed actual set¬ 
tlers to obtain a resident license, even though 
they have not acquired residence. In Michigan 
and Minnesota all residents are now required to 
obtain licenses to hunt in the county of residence. 
In North Dakota and Vermont conviction of vio¬ 
lating the game laws not only results in forfeiture 
of license, but renders the holder ineligible to 
obtain another for a year, except with the con¬ 
sent of the game commissioner in Vermont. 
Warden Service. 
About one-third of the States have made im¬ 
portant changes in the administration of warden 
service. Arkansas established a State game and 
fish commission of four members, while Florida 
abolished the office of State game and fish com¬ 
missioner and intrusted the work of enforcement 
to county wardens. The total number of States 
which have general officers in charge of game- 
laws enforcement remains the same as last year, 
and four States—Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, 
and Virginia—still rely on local officers. Reor¬ 
ganization of commissions resulted in Minnesota 
and New York in the substitution of a single 
officer in place of a commission; in Michigan in 
the combination of the game, fish, and forest de¬ 
partment with the public-domain commission; 
and in Wisconsin in the consolidation of the 
work of the game-warden department with that 
of several other State offices under a new con¬ 
servation commission. In Illinois the title of the 
commission was changed from conservation 
commission to game and fish commission; In 
North Dakota to game and fish board; and in 
Ohio from an agricultural commission to a board 
of agriculture—the latter without salary. In 
Oregon the board was reorganized with the gov¬ 
ernor as chairman, and two members from west 
of the Cascades and two from the eastern part 
of the State. The position of warden in Tennes¬ 
see was placed on a salary basis of $2,500 per 
annum, the salary of the secretary of the Penn¬ 
sylvania commission was made $3,000, the salary 
of the secretary of the North Dakota game board 
$1,200, and the salary of the State warden of 
New Mexico was increased from $1,800 to $2,000. 
Apparently the only important decrease was in 
the compensation of the conservation commis¬ 
sioner of New York from $10,000 to $8,000. 
Increases in the number of wardens were auth¬ 
orized in several States. In Illinois the addition 
included 1 district warden and 18 deputies; in 
New Hampshire, 10 wardens; in New Jersey, an 
assistant fish and game protector; in North Da¬ 
kota, a State game and fish commissioner; in 
Pennsylvania, 20 protectors; in South Dakota, 1 
additional assistant in the office and I in charge 
of the game farm; in Washington, 4 special 
deputy wardens; and in Wyoming, 3 additional 
assistants. 
Game Refuges and Preserves. 
Two national bird reservations have recently 
been created by Executive order—Mille Lacs, a 
small island the lake of the same name in 
Mille Lacs County, Minn. (May 14, 1915), and 
Big Lake, in Mississippi County, Ark. (Aug. 2, 
1915). The Blackbeard Island reservation in 
Georgia, created in 1914, was abandoned as a 
national bird reservation. 
Legislation affecting refuges was enacted in at 
least 14 States, and included not only provision 
for new refuges, but changes in boundaries and 
elimination of several of those already created. 
In California two refuges were created in the 
Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles and San 
Bernardino Counties, and one in the Trinity 
National Forest in Trinity County. Idaho es¬ 
tablished the Lewiston Orchards preserve in Nez 
Perce County, and the Black Lake game refuge in 
Adams and Idaho Counties (which was stocked | 
with 50 elk from the Yellowstone National 
Park), and renewed protection for five years on 
big game and game birds in seven counties in the 
southeastern corner of the State. Montana en¬ 
larged the Snow Creek game preserve and de¬ 
creased the area of the Gallatin preserve. Oregon 
abolished the Capitol, Imnaha, and Steens Moun¬ 
tain preserves created two years ago. Wyoming 
created the Hoodoo Basin preserve in Park 
County, eliminated a strip of 4 miles wide along 
the eastern boundary of the Big Horn preserve, 
changed the boundaries of the Popo Agie and 
Teton preserves, and abolished the Laramie pre¬ 
serve, the boundaries of which were not clearly 
defined in the act creating it. 
Provision for the creation of State refuges on 
private lands was made in several States. Illinois, 
Pennsylvania, and West Virginia authorized the 
commission to enter into contract for the es¬ 
tablishment of such refuges. Minnesota limited 
the minimum area of refuges on private lands to 
640 acres, Washington required written consent 
of the landowners, and West Virginia limited the 
area in any one county to 10,000 acres. Tennessee 
provided for a propagating farm on lands set 
aside for the purpose and prohibited hunting on 
State lands, including Brushy Mountain and Her¬ 
bert Domain. 
