. Game as a national resource . ers, should not be able to obtainsufficient stock to allow general hunting, but it is remarkable thatStates like Iowa. Nebraska, and Ohio, which formerly were in the GAME AS A NATIONAL RESOURCE. 17 center of abundance of these birds, no longer afford quail was the pioneer State in attempting to curtail traffic ingame birds by prohibiting export of quail in 1876. Iowa, in 1878,attempted to restrict excessive killing by establishing a daily baglimit. The Kansas law, however, did not remain in force very the nineties southern Kansas was the c
. Game as a national resource . ers, should not be able to obtainsufficient stock to allow general hunting, but it is remarkable thatStates like Iowa. Nebraska, and Ohio, which formerly were in the GAME AS A NATIONAL RESOURCE. 17 center of abundance of these birds, no longer afford quail was the pioneer State in attempting to curtail traffic ingame birds by prohibiting export of quail in 1876. Iowa, in 1878,attempted to restrict excessive killing by establishing a daily baglimit. The Kansas law, however, did not remain in force very the nineties southern Kansas was the center of the shipment ofquail for propagation, and thousands of birds were shipped fromthe vicinity of Wichita to various States east and west, and also toforeign countries. In 1903 the State found it necessary to close theseason on quail in 19 counties; in 1905 to extend the protection threeyears longer in 14 of these counties; and in 1913 to give quail pro-tection in all the counties for a period of five years. Following this. I////1 Hunting limitedI 1 Hunting unlimited Fro. 3.—Rabbit hunting in 1920. In 23 States, chiefly in the East (shaded area), shortopen seasons were provided. In the remainder of the country hunting was unlimited. example, Idaho, Iowa, and Ohio in 1917 enacted laws protecting quailthroughout the year. That deer hunting should no longer be possible in the great agri-cultural States in the Middle West is perhaps not surprising, butwhen quail shooting also is eliminated, conditions become serious forthe sportsman. Three States in this section—Ohio, Iowa, andNebraska—now have neither deer hunting nor quail shooting. InOhio there are possibly 265,000 sportsmen, in Iowa about 105,000,in Nebraska about 65,000. Nearly 435,000 sportsmen of these threeStates are deprived of any big-game hunting or quail shooting unlessthey go elsewhere, and are forced to confine their hunting mainlyto rabbits (see fig. 3) and waterfowl. 79S64—22 3 18 BULLETIN 1049, U. S. D
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