State Game Refuges 
 
To establish and operate an efficient state game refuge system 
in Wisconsin, plans must be laid for a tremendous amount of survey 
work, the establishment of a program to operate a most comprehensive 
refuge plan and the eventual expenditure of many hundreds of thousands 
of dollars. The purchase of lands, both for state game refuges and 
for adjoining public shooting grounds is desirable in all four game 
districts, but such purchases are out of the question for the most 
part in the southeastern and southwestern districts because of pro- 
hibitive land costs. The leasing of refuge lands for public shooting 
grounds in the southern districts is probably advisable as a temporary 
expedient. Other plans arc at this time being worked out which may 
help to solve the problem. 
It is reco~mmended to secure refuge and public shooting ground 
funds, that the resident hunting license be increased to 11.50; 
twenty-five to fifty cents of which is to be appropriated for the pur- 
chase of refuge lands and public shooting grounds in the northern and 
central game districts, and the lease of such lands in the southeas- 
tern and southwestorn districts. This additional license fee should 
go into effect at once in order that the conservation commission may 
begin immediate purchase of lands. 
Northern Game District 
It is recommended that refuge lands in the northern game dis- 
trict include not less than six sections of land nor more than eight- 
con sections; and that public shooting lands adjacent to the refuge 
be purchased in a ratio of six to one, i.e. if six sections of land 
are purchased for refuge purposes there should be surrounding the 
refuge thirty sections of land purchased for public shooting grounds. 
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