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Our New Hawk and Owl! Law — II 
By ELTON FAWKS 
WHEN I REPORTED on our new Hawk and Owl Law, House Bill #1063, in 
the September issue of the Audubon Bulletin, I could not give a clear opinion 
about crow protection. The new law added the crow to Section 21 of the 
Illinois Game Code so that the Department of Conservation could demand 
a hunting license of everyone afield. Before, a gunman could always say he 
was shooting crows if found hunting out of season. Another section of the 
Game Code permits the taking of crows — but now with a license. It is 
my opinion that this change is all to the good. A separate section still per- 
mits farmers to shoot hawks found damaging their livestock. 
In House Bill #1063, all hawks and owls were added to the list of birds 
that are protected under Section 21. However, no provision was made to 
add the names of the Cooper’s hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, and horned owl 
to Section 36, which specifically enumerates all birds of prey for which 
there will be no open season. The writer must take the major blame for 
this omission. When I first started to work on the bill I was aware of both 
sections. The Legislative Research Bureau failed to catch the omission. 
No blame can be given to the Department of Conservation. They came 
out in full support of the bill only three days before it started through the 
Legislature. They had no time to check the bill thoroughly. We are indebted 
to them for their support. They have assured me that unless something 
unforeseen happens, they will give us support again in 1959, when the 
Legislature reconvenes and we will try to make the necessary changes, 
We have pledges of full support for a corrected bill from the Federation 
of Sportsmen’s Clubs, the Izaak Walton League, and the Department of 
Conservation, I can see no trouble in making the new Hawk and Owl law 
all it ought to be. 
N.B.: In my previous article on the Hawk and Owl Law in the September 
Bulletin, page 1, paragraph 4, the third line should be corrected to read: 
“...NO attempt was made to enlist support on a local level where trouble 
could start.”” We had full support all along from the leaders of the Federa- 
tion of Sportsmen’s Clubs and the Izaak Walton League, as we have today. 
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