[2] Game laws can provide a legal structure to collect license fees and other money which is used to fund conservation efforts as well as to obtain harvest information used in wildlife management practice.
A certain rank and standing, or the possession of a certain amount of property, were for a long time necessary to confer upon anyone the right of pursuing and killing game.
[4] The preamble to the Act states that commoners tended to poach on Holy Days when their superiors attended church and that these gatherings encouraged social unrest.
[7] During the early history of the United States, colonists who were concerned about the decline in populations of game animals struggled to find effective ways to protect them.
The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to adopt suitable regulations to give effect to the previous paragraph.” The most important effect of this law — and a very far-reaching benefit — was the stoppage of the shooting of wild fowl in the spring, which was especially prevalent in the Mississippi River Valley.