Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and PreservationHornaday, William T. (William Temple)
History
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple)
Game-laws -- United States; Wildlife conservation -- United States
The sale of native wild game, from all sources, should be
permanently stopped, by a Bayne law.
The use of automatic, "autoloading" and pump shot guns in hunting
should be perpetually barred.
PENNSYLVANIA:
As a game protecting state, Pennsylvania is a close second to New York
and Massachusetts. She protects all native game from sale; _she has the
courage to prohibit aliens from owning guns; she bars out automatic
shot-guns in hunting_; she makes refuges for deer, and feeds her quail
in winter, and she permits the killing of no female deer, or fawns with
horns less than three inches in length. Her splendid State Game
Commission is fighting hard for a hunter's license law, and will win the
fight for it at the next session of the legislature (1913).
But there are certain things that Pennsylvania should do:
She should stop all spring shooting. She must stop killing doves,
blackbirds, wild turkeys, sandpipers, and all the squirrels save the
red squirrel.
She should give all her shore birds a rest of at least five years,
for recuperation.
She should enact a comprehensive Dutcher plumage law, stopping the
sale of aigrettes.
She should provide a resident license to furnish her Game Commission
with adequate funds to carry on its work and exterminate
game-killing vermin.
RHODE ISLAND:
Little Rhody needs some good, small bag limits; for now (1912) she
has none!
She should enact a Bayne law, a Pennsylvania law against aliens,
and a New Jersey law against the automatic and pump guns.
She should stop killing the beautiful wood-duck, and gray squirrel.
She should stop all spring shooting of waterfowl.
SOUTH CAROLINA:
She should save her game while she still has some to save.
First of all, stop spring shooting; secondly, enact a Bayne law.
In the name of mystery, who is there in South Carolina who desires
to kill grackles? And why?
And where is the gentleman sportsman who has come down to killing
foolish and tame little doves for "sport?" Stop it at once, for the
credit of the state.
Enact a dollar resident license law and thus provide adequate funds
for game protection.
South Carolina bag limits are all 50 per cent too high; and they
should be reduced.
It is strange to see one of the oldest of the states lagging in game
protection, far behind such new states as New Mexico and Oklahoma; but
South Carolina does lag. It is time for her to consider her position,
and reform.
SOUTH DAKOTA:
South Dakota should stop all spring shooting.
Her game-bag limits are really no limits at all! They should be
reduced about 66 per cent without a moment's unnecessary delay.
The two year term of the State Warden is too short for effective
work. It should be extended to four years.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account