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Show Warming Fires, Cigarettes Danger Hunting season again and the mountains will be full of eager sportsmen. They'll carry a lot of cigarettes and matches up through the timber and brush and grass, and cigarette stubs burn hot. It's an anxious time for the foresters and wild land managers and private range owners own-ers and for the conscientious hunter who doesn't want any game range burned out. It will be cold in the early morning when hunting is best. A warming fire is a friendly companion in the frosty, pre-dawn dark but don't leave it burning. Put it out, completely out, with water or by burying. Don't give a fire a chance to run wild in your hunting country. Remember, Re-member, game depends on range don't let the range burn. When the annual deor hunting season opens Saturday, Satur-day, Oct. 20, the nimrods of the state will be hunting under a complete new policy, and the results, which will be closely watched by game officials and hunters alike, will be very interesting no matter which way they go. Sportsmen of the state will hunt their deer under a new either-sex law that was enacted during last winter's session of the State Legislature. While a few areas will be open to buck hunting only and other special hunts, most hunting districts of the state will be open to the shooting of either sex. It is believed that this new deer law is a move in the direction of good game management. However, the test will come during the regular season, and all hunters should do everything possible to abide by the new regulations, regula-tions, not only to obey the law but to give this "experiment" "experi-ment" a fair chance to show what such a policy will do for better management of the game herds. A number of checking stations will be established at various points over the state for this hunt, and checking stations will be aided by an extensive spot field-check to be made in all areas by wardens, special deputies and wildlife federation members. This is being done to give a closer check on this, the first year of hunting under the new either-sex law. This may be the step needed to overcome over-come many problems of deer control in the state that have caused so much controversy in recent years. A new map-type proclamation is being tried out this season also, and each sportsman should avail himself .of one, and govern his actions in accordance with the proclamation. proc-lamation. The map-type proclamation clearly outlines the type of hunting allowed in each district, and the information infor-mation should prove to be an important guide to all deer hunters. No program can be successful without the cooperation coopera-tion of all who participate, and if hunters are sincere in wanting to overcome objections to past regulations they will do everything possible to give the new law a fair test. |