Identifier: biennialreportmo19171918montrich (find matches)
Title: Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Montana Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Montana Fish and Game Commission Game protection Wildlife conservation Fisheries
Publisher: Helena, Mont. : Independent Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Montana State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Montana State Library

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grizzlies are shy of mankind, andonly under the most severe strain, will they attack hunters. Black bear and brown bear will keep out of sight of mankind, and it is onlyby accident or design of the most skilful hunters that man approaches withinshooting distance of these animals. Their flesh is usually edible. The fur is valuable, but principally so in thelate spring. They are not usually predatory, except in few instances, whereindividual species will acquire the habit of killing hogs or possibly sheep, andthe latter habit is often acquired by our highly prized members of the domesticcanine family. In short, bruin has all the elusive shy traits that call for the best efforts ofthe hunter to attain a true sportsmans ambition, in a free for all game of animalcunning against the hunters skill. The flesh is much prized and the hide is adesirable trophy. Then why not protect this truly game animal against theunfair, cruel treatment he has received from trappers and pot hunters for years?
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Getting His Dinner (50) Big Game Season By D. H. Werforn, Anaconda, Montana The present season on big game—elk and deer—from October 1st to December15th is too long, and extends to too late a date. This has been the law for twoyears last past, and if continued is a serious menace to both varieties of biggame, and will result in the extermination of elk within a few years, and thecountless number of deer in various sections of the State, will rapidly disappear,but on account of the greater numbers will continue to exist for a longer periodthan the elk. This extension of season was enacted by the Legislative Session of 1915, andat the urgent behest of a member from one of the counties adjacent to the Yellow-stone National Park, where elk hunting is not indulged in as a sport only, butas a source of supply of winter meat for local ranchers, and frequently as a

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