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Updated: May 9, 2025
When a warden or a citizen arrests an alien for killing any of our non-game birds, show the judge these records of how they do things in Italy, and ask for the extreme penalty.
The methods by which our non-game birds can be encouraged and brought back are very simple: Protect them, put up shelters for them, give them nest-boxes in abundance, protect them from cats, dogs, and all other forms of destruction, and feed those that need to be fed.
The sage grouse, quail, swans, woodcock, dove, and all shore birds should be given a ten-year close season, and rigidly protected, before the stock is all gone. The model law for the protection of non-game birds should be enacted at once. Utah should create a big-game preserve, at once. If Utah proposes to save even a remnant of her wild life for posterity, she must be up and doing.
IDAHO: The imperative duties of Idaho are as follows: Stop all hunting of mountain sheep, mountain goat and elk. Give the sage grouse and sharp-tail ten-year close seasons, at once, to forestall their extermination. Stop the killing of doves as "game." Stop the killing of female deer, and of bucks with horns less than three inches long. Enact the model law to protect non-game birds.
Montana has not yet adopted the model law for the protection of non-game birds. Only seven states have failed in that respect. The use of automatic and pump shotguns, and silencers, should immediately be prohibited. Montana's bag-limits are not wholly bad; but the grizzly bear has almost been exterminated, save in the Yellowstone Park.
Elk and antelope will soon be as extinct as the buffalo. BRITISH COLUMBIA: Wild fowl are in the greatest danger in the southern part of the Province, especially the wood-duck. Otherwise birds are increasing rather than otherwise, especially the small non-game birds. The sea otter is almost extinct. MANITOBA: Whooping crane, wood-duck and golden plover.
All non-game birds not already included under the statutes should be protected. The exportation of all game should be prohibited, unless accompanied by the man who shot it, bearing his license, and the law should be state-wide instead of depending upon a separate enactment for each county. There should be a hunter's license law for all who hunt.
It is clear that New Mexico is wide awake to the dangers of the wild-life situation. On two counts, her laws are not quite perfect. There is no law prohibiting spring shooting, and there is no "model law" protecting the non-game birds.
And the extension of suitable laws to non-game animals, coupled with the establishment of sanctuaries, would soon improve conditions all round, especially in the interest of business itself. No one wants his business to be destroyed.
Look at these absurdities: New York, New Jersey and many other northern states rigidly prohibit the late winter and spring shooting of waterfowl and shore birds, and limit the bag; North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and other southern states not only slaughter wild fowl and shore birds all winter and spring, without limit, but several of them kill certain non-game birds besides!
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