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KEW HVM'ING AND TRAPPING PZGDLATIONS ISSUED FOR ALASKA

Revised regulations respecting game animals,

land fur-bearing animals, game birds, non-game birds, and nests and eggs of

birds in Alaska were adopted by the Secretary of A&culture on &y 15, after

consultation with the Alaska Game Commission, at Juneau, Alaska, end approval

of the Commission's recommendations by the Biological Survey. The regulations

become effective 90 days after the date of pub>ication. Important changes

from existing regulations include slight changes in the boundaries of fur dis-

tricts, the establi-shment of an open season on beaver from May 1 to 31 in

certain portions of western Alaska effective in the spring of 1927, a seasonal

bag lim it of 20 beavers per person, and a system of sealing beaver and marten

skins legally possessed or taken.

A maximum possession lim it is provided for game animals, the same as

the maximum seasonal lim it, m ith the provision that in interior and northern

Alaska perm its may be issued to possess more than the seasonal bag lim it of

game animals when domestic meats are not available and the seasonal lim it on

game is not sufficient for local needs. In parts of northern Alaska meat of

big-game animals and grouse and ptarm igm may be sold uncooked, but only by

the person by whom killed.

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A close season is placed on brown and grizzly bears from June 21 to

the end of August nith the provision similar to that of a Pennsylvania 1% that

Termits killing bears l-rhen endangering persons or property.

The daily bag limit on ducks is increased from t\Fenty t0 tmenty-five and

the limit on brant and geese from six to eight. The maximum possession limit On

waterfowl is raised from fifty to seventy-five, Black-bellied and golden plovers

are removed from the list for which there is an open season and the bag limi.tS

on jacksnipe reduced from tv:enty-five to twenty, to correspond to the regulations

under the migratory-bird treaty act.

The caribou season is changed in the northern district and certain trap-

ping seasons are slightly altered with a viem of obtaining a higher average

quality of furs.

Special protection of game, fur animals, and birds in the loner Taku

River region has been removed, and on the Kodiak-Afobgnak Islands group intro-

duced beavers and muskrats are given absolute protection.

The Alaska Game Commission at its annual meeting in February adopted re-

vised regulations relating to guides, poisons, and resident trapping liCenSeS,

essentially the same as the old, with the exception that guides are not mm re-

quired to devote the principal part of their time during the hunting season to

guiding hunting parties.

NOTE TO EDITOR: Copies of both the ne9 regulations adopted by the Secretary

of Agriculture and those of the Alaska Game Commission are inclosed.

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. ,U-NiTED STATEiS DZPARTMENT OF AGR1CULTU.P~ . . ; BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURKEY

Lashington, 3. C. by 33, 1926

Pursuant to the authority and direction contained in Section 10 of the Ale ska Game I&N of Jnnuary 1.3, 1325 (43 Strt, 739), upon consultation with and/ or recommenda,tion from the Alaska Game Commission, and havirg determined when, to what extent, and by what means gaLle animals, land fur-bearing animals, game birds, nongame birds, and nests and eggs of birds may be taken, possessedp transported, bought, or sold Ln Alaska: I, ii. 1,;. Jardine, Secretary of Agricul- ture, do hereby adopt mi t ting and governing publication hereof:

the following regulations as suitable regulations per- the 63me, to be effective ninety days after the date of

R3G-ULATI ON 1 , --'J;pJ>JI yJI(JlJJ's

For the p~pose of these regulations the follo&rg shall be construed., respectively, to mean:

&. --The S&crefarg of k,&.d.tvse of the United States, SecrPter~r d Commissior .--The Ala&~ Game Co-mmission, Torri tory, --- --The Territory of Alaska, sV.rtml. t of Ala&a Ran,ge end Ahklun Lountain s ---A continuous irregular -.--

line extending from the Intern3 tional boundary to Cape Mev!enhe.m, following the divide separating the upper Yukon and the Tanana River drainage from the streams flowing into the Gulf of Alaska, Prince \villiam Sound, and Cook Inlet; thence along the main LLs.s~ka Pznge following the divide between the streams floviing into the Tanana and Kusl:okr;im Rivers and those flowing into Cook Inlet; thence southwesterly to Cape BTer-:enhal;i following the divide separating the strea.zs flor*rv ing into the Xuskok~~im River and I$z&olc;lirn Say from those flowing into Cook Inlet and Sri stol Bay,

Per son. --i%e plural or the sin@lar, as the case dema:lds, Llcluding indi- viduals, a.ssociations, par tnershlps, and corporations , unless the context other- wise requires.

Take. --To pursue, hunt, capture, or kill, or to attempt to pursue, hunt, captzre, or kill birds or game or fur-beoriapr animals,

Open s*a.son. --The --

taken.

time during rc!hic% birds or animals may lawfully be l

Each period of $ii-ne prescribed es en open season shall be cons true 1 to include the first <and last days thereof.

Cl0 se seasnil. -.-The time during which birds and animals may not be taken. ’ Trenspor t, --To ship, trensport, carry, import, export, or receive or to

deliver for slli.pment, transportation, carriage, or export, lxiless the context otherwise requires,

C&me animals --3eer, d-.--d- moose, ceribou, elk, mountain sheep,’ mountain goat, end the large broyva and grizzly bears,

Land fur-h car inP; animals which shall be known as big game.

( spermophile) I fisher, foxes, . --‘13ea.ver) r::z&at, LiGr;iO t, ground squirrel

l-ynx, martsn or sable, mink, weasel or ermine, land otter, nolvereze, polar bear, (or glacier benr) color variations.

ankd black. beclr Including its brown and blue

Game birds and swans ;

Pa -4igra tory waterfowl comwly k1ow-n as ducks ,’ ’ geese, brant, s’horebirds, comr;lonly known as plovers, sandpipers, snipe, and cmh7; 1

little brown crane, L&i the several s,pecies of grouse and ptz;rrtigas; which shall be lmown as smll gauze,

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Nonmm birds.-&11 wild birds except game birds.

Each application for a license required under the Ala.s!:a game lav shall be made on the form prescribed by the con;mission and obtained from a person Sl.l%hfJl'iZCd to issue liceilse;., and if the a;?plication is made by mail it sk.11

be accompanied by a draf ?J ofi a ,Tmea,-u bank: or an express Or postal UXle>7 0l’deY

payable to the coru,lission for the amount of the license fee.

REGULAIIOB 3. c-2 ICZWS?IS OF i3UX!iXiiS, TWLPLPZX, AKD GUIDES

Nothing in these regulations shall be construed to 2erait a person’ to take animtils or birds or to act as a. guide in the Territory unless he ~k?;l.ll be in possession o:l ,a wlid license, bearing his signeture nr12 * +-ten in ink on the face thereof, ‘C ‘1 LA 11s is re(-Q.red by toe Ai&.ca game 1%' or re@atiGnS therC%nder SO have a license to take animals or birds or to act as c guide, and he shttJ.1 have his iicense oil his person when taking animal% or birds or acting as a guide, and s~ha.11 produce it for inspection by any game narden or .other ]?erSOn requesting to se6 it,

Game animals in numbers not exceeding tile maximum seasonal limits Rye- scribed by Regulations 11 and 13, the hides, heads, and feet of game animals+ articles ma.de from such hides,. heads, or feet, grouse and ptarmigan, and the d4.m and feathers of earne birds, legally take:1 during the open season, may he possessed and trpns]?orted at any time within t3e Territory by any personr

Any person ray ci thout a license possess and transport at any time with- in or out of the Territory the shed antlers of caribou, Loose, and deer.

Any per soil may tra.nq2or t within the Territory during the period coasti- tuting the open seaso: therofor miqato;‘g game birds legal-q taken during the opera season, and any such migratory gene birds or parts thereof in transit during the open season may continue in tra.nsi t for such additional time im- mediately succeeding such o-pen season, not iuo exceed five days, as IA-IP~ be necessary to deliver the same to their destination, and may be possecsed within the Territory dl.il.lring the pe.-iod constituting the open seasor and for an ad?& tional period of 10 :hys next succeed+g &uch open season, but no person shall Fossess more t&n 75 in the eggregete of all kinds of ducks, geese, and brant a.t any one tir.lc,

A nonresidant may Fossess and transport at ~n:i time wi3-in 01' ou+ of the Territory the &LX-, nnd fea.thers of ga.me birds and any article msnufectured from the hides or hoofs of moose, caribou, deer, or mountain goats, le~a,lljT taken.

A riOnre5ldeQt citizen who is the holfier of a valtd gan?e Ilcexse, 0;. a non- resident alien who is the holder of an a.lier special license, ma;; possess and transport at a2y tin:: nithin or out of the Yerritqr 1 moose, 3 deer, 3 caribou, 3 mountain sheep, 3 filoWt,ain goats, ,?nd 3 in the ag,Tresate of largs brown End grizzly bears, or an:’ p;-?rts of such anirlals., but no maze of any one kind, lee;ally. tsken by him; kt ‘afore any big game x&imal or gart thereof shal.1 be trnnspor tad out of the Territory, the person desiriq to msYe such shipment chall first :Jakc and deliver to t&: collector CII’ custol>s t t the pnr t cf shipmer;t, in case the shipment is l..i.d6? ‘2;~ 2xpresa 01~ freight, or v;iSh .i:he ~~ostmi:sster nt %he pla.ce tihzre mai led, if shii>laoilt is made by perce!. post, his rffj.davit to the eff’ezt that he has not, violated nn;r of the provisions of the dlnska ‘game 1~ or the reg;ul~,tions’ ther ;uncler ; tht the big game Enimal or pal’t ‘ihereoi whicil he deeires to ohi has not heen in~chasefi or sold and is not being shipFed for the l;urposc 0,” being sold, and that he 1n:rf’ully killed the snLz.1 en3 i s the owner of it or the part, thereof v;hich he, desire; to ship; and if’ the shi,pmen.t consists of a caribou or part thereof, the statement must ahorr whether the ar.irtil zas kille-1 r,Jrtll or south of the sumzit of the Alaska Range and Ahklun Zou;:tolns, o;’ il or” a. sheep of part thereof ;crhether the a.nimal was killed north or south of the Arctic Circle. Such affidavit shall accoqany the shi?me?t, if made by express or freight, to tne port of clear,-nco, there to be teknn up 5y the collector of the port; col- lectors of customs at port s of cleara,nce iznd postmasters did1 2TOTTIptI.y trallg,iit such affida.vi ts to the commissi.on. Such shipment shall hc.ve attached thereto a

license coupon for each carcass or pert thereof con%ained, therein. In any one year a resident ma;- export by express# freight, or parcel

Post, for mounting and return to the Territory within one year, but not for Sale, not to exceed two heads or trophies of each species of @me animal legally killed by him during the open season , upon first procuring from a member of the corn-- mission or a collector of cus+oms a resident shi_p-ping license, wLich license and a COPY thereof certified by the commissioner or the collector of customs shall be securely fastened to the shipment in a conspicuous place. fn case a. trcphy ex- ported for mounting is shipped by express or freight, the shipping license shill accompany the shiplent to the port of clearance , where the certified copy shall be taken Up by the collector of the port; j.n case the shipment is &made by parcel Post the certified COPY shall be taken up by the po,, c+master at the office where mailed. On the return of the trophy or trophies to the consignor, the original COPY of the ship$ng license shall be secu;-ely fastened to the shi.p,ment. Cal- lectors and Postmasters taking up certified copies of shipping licenses shall promptly transmit them to the commission, On return of the trophy or trophies to the Territory the collector or postmaster through whose office it is received shall detach the original license, n’ote thereon the contents of the shipment, and promptly forwzd the license to the commission.

A citizen of the United States who ha,s been a resident of the Territory for at least two years and who is removin g his residence from the Territory may export, by expess, freight, or parcel post, trophies of gcme animals legally acquired by him upon firs t procuring from a member of the commission, or a col- let tor of customs, a shipping license, which license and a copy t5ereof certified by the commission or the collector of customs, shall be securely fastened to the shipment in a. conspicuous place. In case the shipment is made by express or freight, the shipping license and certified copy shall accompany it to the port of clearance, rrhere the certified copy shall be taken up by the collector of the port; in case shiWent is made by p?rcel post, the certified copy shall be taken Up by the postmaster at the office where miled; and collectors and postmasters taking up such certified copies shall promptly transmit them to the coramission.

Land fur-bearing animals for which an open season is provided, skins or parts thereof , when legally acquired , may be possessed end trensported by my person at any time, but no person who is engaged in fti farming or is a fur dealer or an agent 0” a fur dealer shall possess or transport any fur-bear%% animal or pert thereof unless et the time of such possession or tr;insportation he is in Possession of a valid license issued to him pursuant to the provisions of the Ala.ska game law, end no person shall possess or transport any unprime skin at any time, In case shipment is made by express or freight, the shipper shall first deliver to the collector of customs at the part of shipmentl or, if by parcel post, to the postmaster at the point of mailing, a statement correctly showing t’ne number nnd kirds of skins in each shipment, end that no unprime skin is contained therein, If shipment is made by express or freight such statement shall accompany it to the port of clearance, there to be taken up by the collector of the port, or, if by parcel post, by the postmaster at the office where mailed. Collectors and postmasters shall promptly transmit such statements to the corn-- mission. In case skins or furs are shipped ou.t of the Territory by means other than express, freight, or parcel post, the person transporting them shall first transmit by mail such a statement to the conmission.

Skins of beavers and martens legally taken or acquired may be possessed and trasspor ted by any per son provided each such &in ha.s a,ttached there to a seal prescribed by the commission. Such skins so taken or acquired prior to Xovember 1, 1926, to be entitled to be possessed or’ trensported shall be sealed as provided in this regulation on or before seld date 2nd those acquired there7 after shall be p-esented for sealing within ninety days after such taking or acoui si tion. Persons desiring to have skins sealed shall present such skins to a member of the comission or to a game worden or other person authorized by the comni s sion, together with en eff idavi t or affidavits of lawful taking or acqisi- tion as may be required.

XHXiL!!OiJ 5. -4 ~&LRKING SmmTS CD? GJ.Iv,E AXILALS, GA33 BIRDS, L.&IEJ FUR-BURING SKU4LS, OR PUTS TRXRXOF

. * Each package in which game animals, game birds, land fur~bearing aninals,

or mts thereof are transported, shall have clearly and conspicuously marked

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on the outside thereof the nazes and nddrcsses of the consignor .and consignee and a.n accurate statement of the number 05 each ki.i2d of game animals, game birds, lend fur-bearing animals, or, p,?rte thereof, contained therein.

Except as provided in Regulation 7, a person my buy end sell the meat of czribou, r?r)ose, and nonmigratory game birds, legelly killed, at any time in that part of the Territory north of the sum15 t of the Alaska R?nge and Ahklun Xountains, provided that such meats so sold shall not be transported to or possessed in any other part of the Territory.. No thing in this regulation shall be construed ,to permit a. person other than the one who legally killed ’ the game animals and ga.me birds to sell such animals or birds except in cooked form for human food,

Any person r;3a;y without a license buy 2nd sell at any time in the Territory the feathers of wild ducks and Faild geese, lawfully killed or seized and. con- demned by Federal game a,uthori ties, for use in making fishing flies, bed pillows, end mattresses, and for similar commercial purposes, but not for millinery or ornamen te 1 purposes : the hides or p?rts thereof of moose) caribou, deer, e.nd mountain goats, legally taken during the open season; shed atlers of caribou, moo se, and deer; and the skins and feathers of eagles, crows, hawks, owls, ravens, and cormorents,

A native-born resident Indian; Eski.mo , or half-breed who has not severed his tribal relations by allop:ing a. civilized mode of living or by exercisir? the right of franchise, and a hunter or trapper may sell without a license the skins of fur-bearing animals vdhich he has lawfully taken,. and a person not en- gaged or employed in the bus!-ness o& F Waling in such skins may buy without a license the skins of fur-3earin;S animals for his own use, but he may not sell them. Any other person WLO is in. possession of a valid license issued pursuant to the provisions 02 the Alaska garae law authorizing him so to do may buy and sell. the skins of fur-bearing animals at any time, but each such person shall have his license with him when buying or seliing skins, except that a person buying or selling skins at an established place shall have his license posted conspicuously on the premises , and each such licensee shall produce his license for inspection by any game warden or other person requesting to see it..

Rl3GULATION

Nothing in

7 ,--SBRVING GtiJ3 IN i&SS XXJSBS, BOAVTS, AN3 DINING CARS

these regulations shall be construed to permit any person to sell sny geme animal, #me bird, or p&rt thereof to the owner, master, or em- ployee of any coastal or river steamer or commercial power or sail boat or for any such owner or employee to buy any game animal, game bird, or part thereof; or to take or to possess for serving or to serve any game animal, game bird, or part thereof in any dining car , any corrrmercial mess house opera.ted by the owner of a cannery, or railroad, by a contractor, or in any other commercial mess house, or other place mzintained for the serving of food regularly to employees of such cw:.rnery, reilroa.d, or contractor; or to serve any game animal, game bird, or part thereof to an employee of any coastal or river steamer or co-mmsrcial power or sail boat; or to permit an employee of a, rctilroad, cannery, contractor, or coastal or river steamer or other commercial power or sail boat to possess sny game animal, game bird , or part ‘thereof in a dining car, or any commercial mess house, or in the galley or dining room of any such boat.

Rl3GULATIOX 8 .--‘J%KtNG OF GAME BY B’ROSFXTORS, !lBAVEIZZRS, AXD CDTAIN IXDIAiJS iXF&’ II? BLED OP FOOD

An Indian, Eskimo, or half-breed who has not severed his tribzl relations by adopting a civilized mode of living or by exercising the right of franchise and an explorer, prospector , or traveler may take animals or birds in any psr t of the Territory a:i; oay time for food when in absolute need of food and other food is not available, but he shsll not ship or sell any animal or bird or part thereof so taken,

REGULATIOU 9, -- I&‘PIIGDS OF T&UJ!JG G:JiE BJII’/iASS Ail-D GAL% BIRDS

Xxcept in areas closed to hunting under Regulation 14 and as othernise specifically perZ.tted by Regulations 22 and 23, game ani-r&s and hame birds may be taken during the open.., -eason ‘in the numbers mentioned in Regulat,ions 11 and 13 with a bon and throw, spear, pistol, rifle or grin not larger th.3il X0.

10 gauge, by the use of decoys , and from a blind or floa.ting device (other than an airplane, steam or Tower la,unch, or any other boat than one Rropelled by paddle, oars, or pole) ; but no per son shall t;ke any ,qme animal or game bi:*d mi th the aid or use of a pit, deadfall, fire, jacklight, searchlight, or other srtificisl light, or any game ani.mal with the aid or use of a dog, or Ehile sniZming.

REGT;WTION 10 ,--0PZN SEASONS O>i CXRTAIN C-AXE ~JI&UIJS

Except in area; closed to hunting under Regulation 14, game animals may be taken d-or-i-ng the following open seasons:

Eull moose (except yea.rlings and calves).--September 1 to December 31.

[In Fur District 3, September. 2 to Pllslrch 31. =

Caribou (except fawns) *--(In all other parts of Alaska, September 1 ( to December 31,

Male deer l?rtving horns not less than 3 inches in length above the top of the skull , --&St of longitude 1410 in southeastern Alaska& September 1 to November 30.

Eountain sheep (except females and lambs) .--August 20 to Decembel* 31. Mountain post (except kid-s) .--Septe&er 1 to December 31, Bear (large brown and grizzly), --September 1 to June 20: --- Frovided,

That any person nay kill a large brown or grizziy bear at any time or in any manner when such animal is inflicting or attempting to inflict injury to either the person or personal property of any individual, or may kill such bear in a pursuit commenced within forty-eight hours a.fter the conmlission of such offense; provided further, Th2.t .such bear may be. killed at any time in any manner when found vi thin hall’ a mile of a person t s regulcr place of residence and such person has just cause to fear injury to persons or his personal property by reason t’nere- of. No steel traps shall be used for the p-Roses permitted herein.

11 , --BAG LIMITS ON CZRTAE1

A person nay take during the open season prescribed therefor ir Regula- tion 10 and have in possession at any one time not to exceed the following numbers of game animals:

b’o ose --One. A-. (South of the summit of the Alaska Range (and Ahklun hiountains, resident a.nd non-

Caribou (except fawns).-- (resident, 2, ( (ZJorth of Yne sami t of the Alaska Range (and Ahkl~ Mountains,. by a resident, 5; (by a nonresident, 3,

(In case psu’t of the limit is taken north of the summit and part south thereof, a resident may take 5 and a, nonresident 3 in all, but in n.0 event shall a person take more Wan 2 caribou south of said summit,)

Deer, --Three, Eountain sheep.+(South of the Ar2tis Circle, 2,

(Earth of the Arctic Circle, 3.

(In case part of the limit is taken north of the Arctic Circle and part south there- of, a person may take 3 in all, but in no event shall a person take more than 2 mountain sheep south of said circle.)

mountain goat. -Three. Bear (large brown and grizzly).--!lWee in the aggregate.

The Secretary upon proper shonin;F by the applicant will grant permission to persons located in that area described under Regulation 6, nhere the sale and serving of game is per;;litted, to have in possession at one time an excess of the numbers of game animals pen;litted m&r this regulation, Application for such permission should be addressed to the Alaska Game Corxzission, Juneau, Alaska.

RZXXJLA~ON 12.--0PX;T SDC,oNS ON CERTAIN GtiQBIRDS

Except in areas closed to hunting under Regulation 14, game birds =Y be t&en during the following open eeasons;

Grouse and ptarmigan.--September 1 to February 28. Duck (except eider duck), goose, brant, ivilson snipe or lacksnipe,

and ,crea.ter and lesser yellowlegs . ,-September 1 to December 15.

=KXLATTON 13-c- DAILY BAG AXD WXIMJ~ POSSBSSIOTJ IJUTS OIT CZRIUM GA&Z BIRDS

A person may take in any one day during the open season prescribed there- for in Regulation 12 not to exceed the following numbers of game birds, which numbers shall include any game birds taken by any other person whc for hire accompanies or assists him in taking them:

Grouse and Pbmxinan. --Grouse, 15 in the aggregate of all kinds; ptan-iligan$ 25 in the aggregate of all kinds; but not to exceed 25 in the aggregate of all kinds of grouse and ptarmigan.

Duck, goose, and brant .--DUCT (except eider ducks), 25 in the aggregate of all kinds; goose, 8 in the aggregate of all kinds; brant, 8.

Wilson snipe or .jacksnipe,--9Tenty. Greater and lesser yellowlegs.--Fifteen in the aggregate of all kinds. A person may possess from the beginning of the open season to 10 days

a.fter the close of the open season not to exceed 75,in the aggregate of all kinds of migratory waterfowl at any one time.

. Ri~GUIATION 14 .-CONTII~JOUS CMSB SAASON IN CERTAIN AREAS

Nothing in these regulations shall be con&rued to permit the taking at any time of any game animal, game bird, or fur-bearing animal --

in hiOUnt i&Ki;lley National Park, in Katmai Xational 1[onument,

or, except under permit of the Secretary of Agriculture, on any bird reservation, on Kruzof or Partofshikof Islands, or on any island occupied under lease or permit for fur

farmi;lg purposes except by the occupant thereof.

Nothing in these regulations shall be construed to permit the tefing at any time except under permit of the Secretary af Agriculture Of aW --

beaver or muskrat on the Kodiak-Afognak Islands group, mountain sheep or mountain goat in the eastern part of Kenai

Peninsula east of longitude 1500 (the location of which is indicated by a north and south line 5 miles east of the Stalter Place on Kenai River),

mountain goat on Baranof or Chichagof Islands, deer v?est of longitude 1410,

(in l&r District 2 south of the summit of the Alaska

blue fox ( Range and Ahklun Mountains, ( (in ~i?ur District 1, except on the Aleutian Islands ( Reservation.

KXULATION 15 .--CERTAIN NONGAMB BIRDS UNPROTEClXD

A person may take, possess, and transport crows, hawks, owls, eagles, raven% and cormorants, and their nests and eggs, at any time, in any mh.?r, and by any means , except they may not be taken by the use of poison,

REGULATION 16 .--TAKING OF C-TAIN NOFJGAiv; BIRDS BY ESKIMOS AND INDIANS FOR FOOD AND CIOTHING

Eskimos and Indians may take, possess, and transport at any time, auks, auklets, guillemots, murres, and puffins and their eggs for food, and their skins for clothing, for the use of themselves and their immediate families.

FGGULATION 17 .--LAND FULBZARING ANIMAL DISTRICTS

For the purpose of these regulations, with respect to land fur-bearing animals, the Territory is hereby divided into three districts, as follows:

Fur District 1 .--The Aleutian Islands, Alaska Peninsula north and east to the old portage from Kemishak Bay to Kakhonak Bay on the south side of Iliama Lake, and neighboring isl?.nds , and southeastern Alaska from Cape Fairweather to Dixon Entra.nce.

@r District 2 .--All the mainland and islands of Alaska not included in fur district No. 1 and south of the headwaters of the streams entering the Arctic Ocean north of the sixty-efghth parallel of north latitude.

Fur DistrM 3 .--The region drained by the streams entering the Arctic Ocean north of the sixty-eighth parallel of north latitude and the drainages of the Noatak, Kobuk, Selauik, and Buckland Rivers.

RXGUIATION 18 ,--METHODS OF TAKING LAND FUR-BBARING ANIMALS

Land fur-bearing animals may be taken during the open season in any number (except beaver , of which ooly 20 may be taken by any person in any one season) and in any maner , except by the aid or use of a shotgun, fire, jacklight, pit, lamd, searchlight, or other artificial light, by means of a trap or device known as the l~klips," or by means of any steel bear-trap or any other trap with jaws having a spread exceeding 9 inches, or by means of strychnine or other poison; provided, that no dogs shall be used to take any land fur-bearing animal (except polar bear), and no fur-bearing animal shell be taken from its-home or den by digging, smoking or the use of chemicals, and no home, house, den, or runway of a. beaver or muskrat shall be injured or destroyed.

RXXJUTION 19 .-OEEN ANTI CIOSE; SXASONS ON LAND ETUR-BEARING ANIMALS

Except in areas closed to trapping under Regulation 14, land fur-bearing animls may be taken in the specified districts during the following open seasons:

Fur District 1:

Muskrat.--Dsceniber 16 to April 30.

Mink, land otter. and weasel (ermine); East of Longitude 1380, January 1 to March 1. Test of Iongitude 138O (see exception), December 16 to March 31.

Zxceation: The Xodiak-Afognek Islands group, including Dark Island as the outermost island on the north, Marmot Island on the east, Tugidak and Winity Islands on the west and south.: Land otter and weasel (ermine), 3eceniber 1 to February 15.

Fox (red, cross, and silver) and lynx,-- December 1 to Febrmry 15,

Blue fox, --On Aleutian 1slazd.s Reservation only: December 1 to February 15,

Black bear, including its brown and blue (glacier bear) color varintions .--October 1 to Nay 31,

Beaver .--Alaska Peninsula only: Eay 1 to Kay 31. Eat to exceed 20 may be taken by any one person during such open season.

Bvolf, coyote, 17olverene, marrLot, and ground souirrel (spermophile)B-- -- NO close season, may be taken at any time,

Nar ten. --lb open season.

Fur District 2:

Muskrat .--In that part of the district north of the summit of the Alaska Range and Ahklun Mountains (see exception), Narch 15 to May 31.

%xcention* ---. In the drainage of the Tanana River from its junction with the Yukon to its source, including all its tributaries, ldlarch 15 to May 15.

In that Tart of the district south of the surnni t of the Alaska RaKe and Ahklun Mountains, December 16 to April 30.

Kink, land otter , and weasel (ermine) ,--In that part of the district north of the slunmi t of the Alaska Range and ,4hklun Mountains, November 16 to March 1.

In that part of the district south of the summit of the Alaska Range and Ahkluh biounta,ins, December 1 to March 1.

Black bear, including its brown and blue (or glacier bear) color variations .--In that part of the district north of the summit of the Alaska Range and Ahklun Xountains, Scp tembcr 1 to June 15,

In that part of the district south of the sumnit of the Alaska Range a-ad Ahklun Mountains, October 1 to May 31.

Fox and lynx.--November 16 to March 1.

Beaver .--In that part of the district west of the Alaska Railroad from Anchorage to Nenana, aDd southwest of the line of the Tculana River from Nenana. to Tort Gibbon, and west of a line from Fort Gibbon to the summit of the sndicot t Mountains following the divide between stre2ms entering the Yukon below Fort Gi’obon aild those entering the Yukon above Fort Gibbon, VBy 1 to May 31. Not to exceed 20 may be taken by any one person during such open season4 .

l?olPr bear, wolf, cove te, wolverene, marmot, and mound squirrel (sperisophile) . -- 70 close season, cay be taken at any time,

Mer ten. --No open se.asonq

Fur District 3:

h&rat. --+ril 1 to Iday 31.

FOX, l.ynx, mink, land otter, and weasei (ermine),--November 16 . to Xarch 15.

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Eeaver. --In that part of the district described as the drainage of the Xoatak, Kobuk, Selar:ik, md Ruckland Rivers, Xay 1 to l!kiy 31, Not to exceed 20 may be taken by any one person &uring such open season. .

Polar bear, black bear, including its brown and blue (or glacier bear) color variations, wolf, co:lo te, ;volver’ene, rnrmo t, and -- ground squirrel (spermophile) , --NO close sea.sonr may be taken at any time,

&thing in these’regulatfons shall be construed to permit any person to feed to a fox or other fur-bearing animal held in captivity, or to a dog boarded for pay, pay part of a game animal or bird other than an eagle, a ravenj cr oV1, havfk, 001, or cormorant, but waste pzrts, such as hides, viscera, and bones, may be fed to such animals.

RxNiiTIOI~ 21 .--DlJTIES OF FLXR FAP.J,~S AITD FUR TRADPRS

Each licensed fur farmer or fur dealer shall comply with the provisions of all Territorial laws relating to fur farmers and fur dealers, and, at all reascnable hours, shall allow any member of the commission, any game warden, or any authorized employee of the United Sta.tes aepart,r,lent of Agriculture to enter and inspect the premises v&ere operntions are being carried on under these regu- lations, end to inspect the books aud records relating thereto.

. The Secretary may issue a permit to a duly accredited representative of an educational or scientific institution , public museum or parlk, governmental department of the United Stetes, or a State engaged in the scientific study of animals and birds, or a psrson known to be making a special animal or bird investigation, authorizing the holder to collect, possess, and transport wild animals end. wild birds and the nests or &eggs of birds for scientific purposes, end may issue a permit to any person to take, possess, and transport animals or birds for prop,aga,tion or exhibition, but no permit to take fur-bearing ani- mals for Propagation shall be valid unless countersigned by the executive officer before issuance, ani no permit shall authorize the collection, possession, pur- chase, or sale for propaga.tion of migratory birds other than malla.rd ducks and Canada. geese. Such percit shall be carried on the person of the permittee when he is collecting animals, birds, or nests or eggs thereunder, and shall be ex- hibited to any warden or other person requesting to see it,

Applications for permits to take land fur-bearing aniqals for propaga- tion in Alaska should be addressed to the Alaska Game Commission, Juneau, Alaska, and must state the kinds and ruunbers of animals the applicant desires to capture, an3. where the anima?.s are to be ‘kept. Applications for a.11 other permits should . be addressed to the Secretary of Agricultae, \ia.shington, D. C,, and must sta.te the name and address of a,pplicent, his age, whether he is a taxidermist+ name and address of the public museum or park, if any, which he represents, region where he desires to collect, number of each species of animal or bird or nests or eggs he Desires to collect, probable port and date of shipment, and the purpose for which they eye intended.

The pen5t mxq~ lildt the number and species of aninmls, birds, and nests and eggs that may be ‘collected thereunder, and mey authorize the permittee to possess, buy, sell, 2nd e.rcharee animals and birds, parts thereof, and nests and eggs for scientific, propagation, or exhibition purposes, and prescribe the manner in which specimens may be taken or r;lag be transported, or it may limit the per- mittee to one or more 02 these privileges and prescribe such other restrictions as the Secretary nay deei; necessary+

qach permit shall expire on December 31 of the yea,r of issue, shall be revocable at the discretion of the Secretary, and shall not be transferable. A permit duly revoked by the Secretary shall be surrendered to him by the person

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By virtue of the authority confers ed upon the Alaska. Gar;le Corzrflission by act of Jamxxry 13, 1925 (43 Stat., 739), entitled: “An act to establi& an Alaska. G&U@ Cot7itission to protect game animals, land fur-bearing animals, and birds in Aln&a., and for other purposes,” the folloniq~ regulations for the protection of game ~ani.r@.ls, lend fur-bearing anipls, and birds in Alaska are ;.F& and published, to t&e effect July 1, 1%6.

170 nonresident of the Territory shall t&s game animals in Alaska un- less accompanied b:r n registered guide duly licensed by the Co.E&ssio& exe cept that nonresident Federal employees engaged in investigations or other work in h1e.sk.a s’hall not be required to employ resistered guides when hunting game animals.

RLG’JLUIOX 2. - $J-&LIFICATIOi~3 05 GWIBS.*

Only a resident citizen or a. resident native Indian or Eskimo w~ho is the holder of a valid registered guide license shall act as guide for a non- resident hunter of game a.nimals in Alaska. mcept as herein mentioned any such person desirirq to act as guide for a. nonresident si~rll file with the comission an agyliw~tion, on a form issued by the commission, which shall be subscribed aild SioYi~ to by hin before a gersoa suthorized to administer oaths, and the epnlic?.tion shill state facts concerning his qualifications to act as guide, inc’iuding his !mo~~lec&e al’ the A~F.N& game lar$ irnd the regulations thereunder, of the game and living conditions in Alaska, the roads and trails, and his skill in the use of firearms fznd of boats or other means of trans- porta.tion in Alaska. Any resident citizen or resident native Indian or XSMn0 to whom e license was issued under the Alaska game laV (act of I&y 11, 1X%3>

----SAW&- hiu to act as guide end whose license was not ravoked or cancelled, E to act as a, registered guide under authority of such license until io:l thereof, unless the comis$ion shall revoke his license for thereafter he shall make aM file the applica,tion required by this

iore the issuance of B guide license to him shr.11 be considered.

?gistered guide license nust Sear the &gnature of the chairman of qio:l a;?? be countersigned by one other member of the corsnnission. ie shall e-wire on June 30 next succeeding its issuance, she.11 be ;t the discretion of the corir.lission, and shall not be transferable.

licensed guide shall submit to the comission irzediately upl f a bunting trip, a record of the neme and address of each non- each hunting party for which he acted as guide, the period covered ces rendered each hunting party during the open season, the nur%er of game animals taken by each nonresident guided by him, ,%d the locali ties of each species of big game animal observed by him end

the hunting party,

zte vIcarden or a preds tory-animal hunter employed by or under the f tile corzzzission, nhex authorized so to do by permit issued by the and countersigned by the executive officer, may use a poise% ap-

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proved by the commission, to kill wolves, coyotes, or wolverenes. Such permit shall designate the section of the Territory in nhich the permittee is authorized to use poison for such -purpose,

No hunter or trapper, including native Indians or Eskimos, shall hsve in possession any strychnine, death capsules, or any other poison capable of being used for killing fur-bearing or game animals. Possession shall include presence of such poisons in camps, cabins, or buildings occupied by hunters, trappers, native Indians, or Eskimos.

; R3GUUTION 4, - RESIDZXT TUi'PING LICZBSE

After July 1, 1926, no resident of Alaska over 16 years of age, except native-born Indians or Eskimos, who have not exercised the right of franchise or severed their tribal relations, shall take or attempt to take land fur- bearing animals in iilaska without first having obtained a resident trqping license.

On and after July 1, 1926, all former regulations of the Alaska Game Commission relating to guides, poisons, and resident trapping licenses shall be and are hereby ravoked.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and caused the official seal of the Commission to be affixed in the city of Juneau, Territory of Alaska, this 15th day of February, 1926. .

C. T. GAR3NXR Commissioner First Judicial Division

. and Chairman

[ sm) THOS. 3. JTiXSXN Commissioner Second Judicial Division

rii. H. CHLSE Commissioner Third Judicial Division

P. s. ;I HI 'TNI3Y Commissioner Fourth Judicial Division

ERNEST 2. ~vAIKiB Chief Representative of the Bureau of - Biologic& Survey, resident in Alaska, and Secretary.