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Identifier: annualreport101112190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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game fish, both of which are a greatattraction to nearly all persons who go there for rest and recreation, andfurnish in themselves a strong inducement to our people to spend theirvacations in the woods. One has only to observe how many people areattracted to the Canadian forests by the fishing and hunting to understandhow important it is to this State that the moose, elk, dee:, bear and beaverbe protected from extermination and kept in the Adirondacks. The greatfeature of railroad advertising in Canada and many of our States is thefishing and game. Let us not be laggards in this respect. Changes ^aggesfed in fl)e Ftsl) and Game L,aw The last Legislature changed the open season for hunting deer, cuttingoff the month of September and making it consist of October and fifteendays in November. Such a law enforced will naturally lessen the numberof deer killed each year, but not enough. The amended law is open to twoobjections: First, it makes a space of thirty days between the fishing and
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ANGLERS CAMP IN THE FOREST.— DISCUSSING THE CATCH FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 33 hunting season. Trout fishing closes August 21st, and deer hunting com-mences October 1st. This is objectionable from the standpoint of thehotelkeeper, summer visitor and guide in the Adirondacks. While it istrue that a law to protect game and fish cannot be built on the line offurnishing work to any one, yet if the same object can be obtained by notinterfering with the pleasure or business interest of any of our people, thisshould be done. Experience has proved beyond question that a great portion of thedeer are killed and taken in the fifteen days in November when usuallythere is snow on the ground. To accommodate all persons and protect thedeer, the open season should be from September 16th to October 31stinclusive, and the trout fishing in the Adirondack region should be fromMay 1st to September 15th inclusive. That would bring the fishing andhunting together, and accommodate everyone and sa

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