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Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 10
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv10penn (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Game Commission
Subjects: Game protection; Birds
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Game commission
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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8 ing grounds. With additional funds under its control the Board should now be able greatly to extend the refuge system throughout the Commonwealth, with consequent benefit to the game supply. The Bureau of Vermin Control handles the trapping activities throughout the Commonwealth and pays bounties on such animals as are classed as "vermin," or, more properly, as game destroyers.
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â ( p i Fig. 6. A SEASON'S CATCH OF GAME DESTROYERS: FOXES AND WEASELS Predatory animals are carefully controlled in Pennsylvania by Refuge Keepers, Game Protectors, and interested sportsmen. Bounties are paid annually on about 450 wild cats, 11,000 foxes (red and gray), and 25,000 w^easels. These animals are the only ones on which bounties are paid. The Bureau of Research and Information conducts biological re- searches, delivers lectures to organizations on request, makes motion pictures of the wild animal life of the Commonwealth, and prepares and issues bulletins of interest to sportsmen and scientists. There is an increasing demand for accurate information as to the wild life of the Commonwealth from sportsmen's associations, service clubs, nature study societies and Boy and Girl Scout organizations, which the commission has been greatly pleased to recognize, and some 300 lectures were delivered during the past year. The Board is non-partisan in its composition and non-political in its function and all employes are strictly cautioned to refrain from political activities of any kind. Appointments to the field force are on a civil service basis and not governed by political pressure or influence. Tenure of service for a good man is thus assured, and he can devote himself strictly to the work to which he is assigned without fear or favor. PROBLEMS OF GAME ADMINISTRATION I have outlined above the plan of organization and the functions of the several divisions of the Board of Game Commissioners, and we will now consider some of the problems confronting the Board in their endeavor to propagate and increase the beneficial wild life of the Commonwealth. The average citizen who considers the work of game administra- tion at all, is apt to think that the most serious thing the Board has to deal with is the illegal hunter or law violator. The game w^arden, or as we term our field man, the "game protector," was formerly considered as an obnoxious and pestiferous individual, who went snooping around the woods making trouble for the hunter who acci- dentally or thoughtlessly exceeded his bag limit, or who in some other relatively harmless way infringed the stringent law^s of the Commonwealth. This point of view happily no longer pre- vails among our Pennsylvania hunters, who have learned to know their game protectors as fellow sportsmen, and as men working at all times to protect and foster the best interests of sport for the

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