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Title: First report of game and fish warden for New Mexico. 1909-1910-1911
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: New Mexico (Ter.) Game and fish warden's dept. (from old catalog) Gable, Thomas P. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Game laws Fishery law and legislation Game and game birds Fishes
Publisher: Santa Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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plendid op)iortunities of just this nature to the true sport lovers both at homeand abroad. One point to which I would call attention in the game laws, is that relative to(he killing of deer with horns. This is an excellent provision and shoi^ld be re-tained, it is jirotective in a further sense than to the game, being as well, a saverof human life. The killing of hunters has become a very serious matter in otherstates, during the deer season, and any provision of law that offers such protec-tion is worthy of retention. In looking for deer in the woods, the huntsman is liableto become excited at the least noise and shoot witho\it investigating, taking it forgranted that he lias a deer. If the law compels the hunter to discriminate betweena buck and doe, he will slo)) long enough, at least, to find out what he is shooting;.t. and in 4hat Jiesitalion, lies the i)rotection afforded bv this law. Year by yeartlii^ number of jjcople killiMl and maimed by careless hunters is steadily on tlio
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REPORT OF GAME AND FISH WARDEN FOR NEW MEXICO. )! increase The reports froii! iiiiine waidcns in various states are fairly startling.Jn a j-ecent season tli*; total nuniher of accidental deaths reached seventy-four,witi seventy persons injured, some of them so seriously that death was likelv toresnil. Any hiw that has a tendency to lessen this dangerous evil, can but besahitaiy in its results. THE BEAVER. Undoubtedly, the majority of peojjle in ^,e\v )\Icxico are of the opinion thattlie l)eaver is practically extinct in this state. As a commercial factor it is true,thai the heaver ceased to exist some years ago. hnt it does not follow that this in-teresting and industrious litth animal should pass entirely from tho.se localitieswhich he has x) long known. The heavers are as prolific as nuiskrats and in formeryears wrw wvy abundant, before the entrance of the trapper who sought him forthe value of his fur, which constitutes the heavers chief worth; but he has othereconomic uses of grea

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