3/10/2007:
Today was another Saturday for legislators in 1951, and no doubt it was a day of much needed rest after a full week of decision-making. Much like this session, many of those decisions that week concerned outdoorsmen—both residents and nonresidents alike.
Legislators voted that Canadians, like all other nonresidents, were allowed to hunt, fish or trap in North Dakota, and all nonresidents could take fur-bearing animals from North Dakota—if other states permitted North Dakotans to do the same in their state.
Winter fishermen should also thank this legislature for the comfort they experience today, because this was the legislature that allowed the use of fishing houses for a $1 license. They’d better not be fishing crappies or perch, however, because they were added to the protected species list that session.
By Tessa Sandstrom
“Canada’s hunters Welcome in N.D.,” Minot Daily News. March 5, 1951: 7.