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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga4_1918cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME, 189 THE DANGERS OF THE BOUNTY SYSTEM. Since the burden of expense of bounties foi- the destruction of noxious animals falls on the community at large, the question arises as to how far this method of extermination has been successful, and whether the results warrant its continu- ance. The value of bounties is not ad- mitted by all, and complaints of the failure of the laws and lack of real pro- tection are often made by those who been expended for bounties in the United States during the last 25 years did not give results that corresponded in any way to the outlay. As regards the chance for fraud, the unequal bounties maintained on the same animals in ad- joining counties or states often lead hunt- ers to fraudulently transport the scalps to districts where a higher bounty is paid. Thus, thousands of coyote scalps were imported into California, where under the above mentioned act a bounty of .$.5
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Fig. 107. Boy Scouts encamped in Yosemite receiving instruction on fish and fishing. Photo- graph by H. R. Wilson, June, 1918. should be most benefited by them. The most serious objections, however, are the great expense which is often out of pro- portion to the benefits obtained, and the chance for fraudulent misrepresentation which it affords. As regards the expense of this method, the coyote act of our state, which went into effect March 31, 1891, and was suspended September 30, 1892, after $187,485 had been expended and little had been accomplished, is an example of the fa-te â which much of our recent bounty legislation has suffered. It is, therefore, safe to say that the $3,000,000 which have was paid, from Nevada where only 50 cents was paid for the scalp of this animal. But there are other disadvantages in- herent in the bounty system. For in- stance, it is often impossible to maintain bounties over the entire range of the animal that is to be exterminated. This is particularly true when the animal's range reaches into neighboring counties or states which pay no bounty and, there- fore, favor their multiplication. Again, the animals to be exterminated may often be more useful than harmful. We have only recently come to realize this fact

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