rest days, i.e. days during the regular open season on 
which no shooting is allowed on a particular area. 
Certain days of each week are usually designated. 
Rest days are local in their very nature. They 
are not necessarily established by legislation.  Many 
 clubs use them effectively in the form of rules or by-laws. 
Qwherever there cannot be refuges, there should be rest daysNI 
Spublic shooting grounds will eventually need rest days, 
even where adjacent refuges are established. 
Rest days offer an enormous field for improving ,- 
0-the b-ed-out conditionjof ourakes and marsh landsy 
purely local action.Y-he field has ares.y been touched. 
Our progress in developing it will be an excellent test of 
the capacity of our sportsmen for local self-government. 
Possibly the state conservation departments and even federal 
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agencies should temper the exercise of their regulatory 
powers in accordance vuith the sufficiency of local action in 
such matters as rest days. Certainly they should exercise 
leadership in inducing local agencies to establish rest days. 
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weep to hear Q   obstructionists      449r +ho ..... th 
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