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On Buffalo_ 
In Arizona 
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BY CHAS. NIEHUIS 
‘Arizona State G&F Comm. 
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Dedicated to Conservation, Fish- Culture, Lake Operation, — and Good Sportsmen Everywhere j 

If old Buffalo Bill were | VOLUME 1 
/ alive’ today, he’d have to ride 
a long, long way to kill a buf- 
falo in these times. In fact, he 
wouldn’t be able to do it in ‘his 
,old stomping grounds at all. 
! Buffalo herds are under total 
protection there, and he’d 
: really be surprised when he 
did find a herd. More than 
.. likely, he’d put his horse into 
a gallop and the buffalo 
wouildn’t even run. They wouldn’t 
be able to, because there would be 
meh fence in their way, A park offi- 
erat would come out and arrest Bill 
and take him off to court, to be 
_ fined for molesting the animals, 
i But, if Buffalo. Bill dooked far 
enough to the west he could find a 
herd that was not under fence! It 
would be far from the buffalo’s 
natural habitat, for they never 
_ ranged any farther west than the 
Pecos River in New Mexico. It 
- would be way out in Arizona, the 
- only place left in the United States 
ie ‘where an ordinary hunter even has 
a chance to killa buffalo. How the 
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Be ttle unt is 
C plas Gon by the pub- 
lic. Sury animals are harvest- 
ed from the state-owned herd 
each year. ‘Numbering some two 
herd has» a ‘natural. ‘increment of 
about 25 ‘per- cent annually. 
oF Each hunt crops the herd back 
to two hundred head, this being 
within the carrying capacity of 
the range in its present condi- 
tion as it is used jointly by a 
greater number of cattle. Thus, 
the best breeding stock is held 
to produce and perpetuate the 
Arizona buffalo herd. ; 
The number of adult animals to 
be taken each spring is determined 
by the calf crop of the previous |» 
year. 
Naturally there are many more 
hunters seeking buffalo hunting 
permits than there are animals 
- available. So, the Arizona Game 
‘and Fish Commission has worked 
out a fair, sporting proposition for 
selection of buffalo hunters. 
_ Purchasers of the new year’s} 
hunting licenses, during a desig- 
nated period and usually during 
the first few weeks of January, 
register their name, address and 
: a new hunting license number in the 
“ offices of the commission. These 
are typed up and placed in cap- 
sules and put in a large jar. The 
a _ drawing is held on a predetermined 
day and at a certain time. The 
q names of a certain number (pre- 
determined by the buffalo to be 
killed) of hunters are drawn and 
- jisted. Then an equal number of 
- alternates are drawn.\If the shold- 
er of a puffalo hunting permit can- 
not go an alternate has the privi- 
- lege. ks 
a The hunt is under. direct super- 
- vision of wardens of the Arizona 
~ Game and Fish Commission. 
Dates for the hunt are set and 
this year hunting will begin Feb- 
-ruary 12th and extend for several 
days until 50 animals are killed. 
j ‘Each hunter is charged $5, 
“which is half the fee paid by the 
state to skilled skinners and butch- 
‘erers. The hunter gets one front 
quarter, head and hide of the ani- 
mal he has killed and the privi- 
lege of buying one other. ‘quarter 
at 25¢ per pound for the front and 
nace per pound for a hind. | 
_ The balance of the meat is con- 
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hundred | or more animals, the | 
Seni FC news, neh 
DURANT, OKLA. — FEBRUARY, 1944 
NUMBER 3 . 

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Arizona’s 1944 Buffalo Herd 
-Pieture, curtesy of Arizona State G&F Comm. 
izona buffalo herd. From this herd, 50 animals will 
x imately 200 head, and the increase is about 25 per 
| cent per year. That is the number the Arizona State Game and Fish Commission permits hunters to take. 
Whitetailed buck, fawn, is a young fellow. ‘of last year’s 
fawn crop. Rocky Mountain Mule Deer have greater population 
punhert in the state of Arizona than do Whitetailed Deer. White- 
Picci fer, more alert and harder to bag. This makes them 
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well-written, 

No Good, Take 

‘Em Back 
A “PALEFACE” gave one of 
our Oklahoma Indians 2 
fine bird dog. A few days later 
the Indian brought the dog back 
to the donor. 
“What's the matter with that 
dog, Chief, I know he’s about 
the best in the country. Why 
are you bringing him back?” 
asked the paleface. 
“Huh,” said the chief, “him 
no good—all it do is stand 
there and look at ’em.” 



HE lobo wolf of the Old 
West has about passed 
into the great beyond. The pass- 
sing of one more is such an od- 
idity that it makes news. Such 
is the one that Billy Kelly, a 
stockman on the Apache Indian 
reservation in Arizona taught 
in a trap the first week in De- 
cember. The ferocious stock- 
killer (sometimes Known as a 
timber wolf) measured seven 
and a half feet from tip to tip. 
a ae er ree cman 
‘Lobo Wolf Killed 

Re Ao er ERA oe eee TE | 
TEXAS G&F COMMISSION 
PUBLISHES MAGAZINE 
The Texas game, fish and oyster 
Build Your Pond 
this Year 
’ The federal government has 
launched one of the best pro- 
grams it has ever undertaken 
—that of financing the con- 
struction of earthen dykes for 
the creation of ponds on farms 
throughout the country. The 
primary objective of the pro- 
gram is to create stock ponds 
for farmers. While there will 
be only a small portion | of 
these ponds suitable for the 
raising of fish, some will 
afford an excellent opportu- 
nity for those interested in a 
fish pond to have such a body 
of water. By no means do au-_ 
thorities desire to have this _ 
/ program known as a fish-pond 2 
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construction program. They 
| do, however, advocate stock- - 
ing the suitable ponds with 
fish for food purposes. 
The program calls for pay- 
ment of 15 cents per cubic yard 
for the first 2,000 yards, and 10 
cents per cubic yards for the 
following 3,000 yards, which 
makes a total of 5,000 cubic 
yards the government will al- 
low payment for. The 5,000 cubic 
yard allowance is as much as 
will be paid for one dam, 
However, if a person can show 
need for a second dam, then he 
may also build it, and receive pay- 
ment. As an example, if you should 
have a long ravine or canyon, and 
you wanted to build a series of 
ponds, then you can do this and at 
the same time receive payment for 
it. Officials point out, however, 
that they would rather give every 
farmer one pond than to have a 
few farmers with several ponds, 
and for that reason they do not 
encourage a person to build more 
than one dam. In other words, they 
want to spread the program as 
much as possible. 
A Bottleneck 
There is a bottleneck at the pres- 
en time in the program, however. 
That is the fact that earth-moving 
equipment is scarce, and contrac- 
tors are reluctant to move dirt for 
10 and 15 cents, whereas they 
have been getting as much as 30 
cents. In our own county, for in- 
stance, approximately 380 ponds 
have been built, and there are 
2,000 farmers on the want-list. 
The shortage of contractors and 
dirt-moving equipment can be 
Overcome, however, by the farm- 
ers themselves doing their own 
work. 
Payment Within Two Weeks 
If a contractor is employed, pay- 
ment for dam building work is 
commission publishes a monthly | received at two-week intervals. If 
magazine which anyone may re- 
ceive for 50 cents per year. It is 
filled with the goings-on of that 
state department, and has many 
fine articles in each issue. 
If you’ want to subscribe for this 
well-illustrated, and 
highly interesting magazine, send 
50 cents (not stamps) to Texas 
Game and Fish, Walton Building, 
Austin, Texas. 
one does his own work, however, 
payment will not be made until? 
fall. 
In conjunction with the dam 
building program, the government 
also is paying for terracing and 
sodding. The pay received for ter- 
racing is $52.80 per mile. For sod- 
ding with Bermuda grass, pay- 
ment is $5 per acre, for other 
(See No. 1, Page 2) 
