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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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his great Avestem section of our country and hunted at will. It is no small taskto teach them the law and demonstrate the benefit which comes to them, aswell as to others, through its enforcement. Up to two year? ago nothing had ever been accomplished in the way of puttingn stop to the recldess, wholesale slaughter of deer and all big game hy the reser-vation and Pueblo Indians. They simply killed at will, in accordance with theirlong established and unmolested cu.stom. Upon assuming the office of game andfish warden, in order to acquaint the people with the law relative to game andfish, and deeming this the most efficient method of securing compliance with thestatute, I had printed several thousand copies of the law. in English and Spanish;also a synopsis on cards and cloth posters, sending them to all the county clerks,deputy game wardens, forest sujicrvisors and guards, teachers at the rarious Indianpueblos and reservations, as well as to individuals and newspapers of the territorv
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REPORT OF GAME AND FISH WARDEN FOR NEW MEXICO. 23 for their intoniiation and distribution. Tlie Indians had copies widely distributedamong them with attention called to tlie license and limit proviso and theyseemed to understand the meaning of the law, as they procured licenses; but, inthe face of this they went on shooting and slaughtering all the game they couldlind. in reckless disregard of the prohibitory statute, until it seemed to me thaisome energetic and severe measures must l)e adopted to prevent the furtherunlawful destruction of the game. This department was constantly receivingreports from different sections of the territory detailing the violations of theganic laws, the following being an example: Hunters say that a band of marauding Apaclies from Arizona hasbutchered hundreds of deer in violation of the game laws, literally wipingthe game out of one of the best hunting sections of the southwest. Ranch-men and rangers have seen stacks of hams and quarters piled breast hig

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