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Updated: May 9, 2025
Tennessee needs: A resident license system to provide funds for game protection. A salaried warden force. A law prohibiting spring shooting of shore birds and waterfowl. A law protecting robins, doves and other non-game birds not covered by the present statute.
The trapping and export of game have ceased, and wild turkeys and woodcock are now increasing. It is unlawful to kill or capture non-game birds. Bag limits have been imposed, but the bag limit laws are all too liberal, and should be reduced. A hunter's license law is in force, and the department of game and fish is self-supporting. Night hunting is prohibited, and female deer may not be killed.
By way of illustration, to show what the sale of wild game means to the remnant of our game, and the wicked slaughter of non-game birds to which it leads, consider these figures: The fines for this lot, if imposed, would have amounted to $1,168,315. Shortly after that seizure American quail became so scarce that in effect they totally disappeared from the banquet tables of New York.
Without such a force her game must continue to be destroyed in the future as in the past to supply the markets of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. The deer law is excellent, and the non-game birds, and the dove and wood-duck are perpetually protected. One fly in the ointment is spring shooting; which for ducks, geese and brant continues from September 1 to April 20.
From the beginning, their efforts have tended especially toward the preservation of the non-game birds, and it is well that the song and other insectivorous birds have thus been specially championed. Unfortunately, however, if that policy is pursued exclusively, it leaves 154 very important species of game birds practically at the mercy of the Army of Destruction!
This bill, besides extending protection to all useful non-game birds, gave the first clear statutory terminology for defining "game birds." It also provided for the issuing of permits for the collecting of wild birds and their eggs for scientific purposes. The States of New York and Massachusetts that year adopted the law.
On May 29, 1901, the legislature of Florida was induced to enact a statute making it a misdemeanour to kill any non-game birds of the State with the exception of the Crow and a few other species regarded by the lawmakers as being injurious to man's interests.
Spring shooting was stopped in 1903. A comprehensive law protecting non-game birds was enacted in 1862. New York's first law against the sale of certain game during close seasons was enacted in 1837.
The road is open; the pack-train is ready; the guides are waiting. Go on and slay the Remnant! ARIZONA: The band-tailed pigeons and all non-game birds should immediately be given protection; and a salaried warden system should be established under a Commissioner whose term is not less than four years. The use of automatic and pump guns, in hunting, should be prohibited.
Provision should be made for one or more state game preserves. Spring shooting of shore birds and waterfowl should be prohibited. A larger and more effective warden service should be provided. Doves should be removed from the game list. NEVADA: The sage grouse should be given a ten-year close season, for recuperation. All non-game birds should have perpetual protection.
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