Part I – General Sessions

Twenty Years of Resource Progress?

• Formal Opening, Ira N. Gabrielson
• Introductory Remarks, A. W. Trueman
• Canada Welcomes This Resources Conference, The Honorable Jean Leasage
• Our Resource Estate: Why Conserve It?, Paui M. Dunn
• Progress in Soil Conservation, J. S. Russell
• Twenty Years of Progress in Water Management, Edward A. Ackerman
• Twenty Years of Progress in Forestry and Range Management, J. V. K. Wagar
• Progress in Wildlife Research and Training, Clarence Cottam

Current Problems and Future Needs

• Introductory Remarks, Frank L. Campbell
• Research – A Key to Improved Resource Management, Keith R. Kelson
• Public Understanding of Resource Values, Katharine Jackson
• Research – Are We Using What We Know?, Bernard L. Orell
• Future Population Demands, William Vogt
• Do Resource Programs Meet People's Needs?, Stephen Raushenbush

Waterfowl Flyway Management Problems

• Introductory Remarks, Angus Gavin
• Wherefore Flyway Councils!, T. A. McAmis
• Social Security for Mr. Duck, Ernest Swift
• Canada’s Place in Flyway Management, David A. Munro and J. Bernard Gollop
• Is There Scientific Basis for Flyway Management?, Joseph J. Hickey
• Crop Insurance Against Waterfowl Depredations, E. L. Paynter

Part II – Technical Sessions

Disease, Nutrition, and Controls

• Causes of Winter Losses Among Canada Geese, C. M. Herman, J. H. Steenis, and E. E. Wehr
• The Role of Food and Cover in Population Fluctuations of the Brown Lemming at Point Barrow, Alaska, Daniel Q. Thompson
• Reduction of Adrenal Weight in Rodents by Reducing Population Size, John J. Christian and David E. Davis
• Chemicals and Wildlife – An Analysis of Research Needs, Robert L. Rudd and Richard E. Genelly
• Hydatid Disease in Saskatchewan Big Game, T. A. Harper, R. A. Ruttan, and W. A. Benson
• A Preliminary Evaluation of Quail Malaria in Southern Arizona in Relation to Habitat and Quail Mortality, Charles R. Hungerford
• Some New Pheasant Diseases in California, Merton N. Rosen and William J. Mathey, Jr.

Wetlands and Inland Water Resources

• Increasing Summer Streamflow, Kenneth A. Reid
• Trout Management Research in Alberta, Richard B. Miller
• Management of Quebec Trout Lakes, Gustave Prevost
• The Effect of Drawdowns on Lake Trout Reproduction and the Use of Artificial Spawning Beds, N. V. Martin
• Fish Cultures for Agricultural Waters, Verne E. Davison
• Some Evidences of Home Range in Waterfowl, Alex Dzubin
• Fluoroscopic Measures of Hunting Pressure in Europe and North America, William H. Elder

Upland Game Resources

• Is the Hen Pheasant a Sacred Cow?, J. Burton Lauckhart
• Acorn Yields and Wildlife Usage in Missouri, Donald M. Christisen and Leroy J. Korschgen
• Analysis of Pheasant Age Ratios, Lee Eberhardt and Ralph I. Blouch
• Age, Breeding Behavior and Migration of Sooty Grouse, James F. Bendell
• Implications of Social Behavior in Gray Squirrel Management, V. F. Flyger
• The Strip Intersect Census, Paul Moore
• The Controversial San Juan Rabbit, Roger M. Latham

Marine, Coastal, and Fur Resources

• Studies on Canadian Atlantic Salmon, P. F. Elson and C. J. Kerswili
• Problems of Pacific Salmon Management, Ferris Neave and R. E. Foerster
• Planning Anadromous Fish Protection for Proposed Dams, W. R. Hourston, C. H. Clay, L. Edgeworth, P. A. Larkin, E. H. Vernon, and R. G. McMynn
• Groundfish Stocks of the Western North Atlantic, Wilfred Templeman
• Physiological Investigation of Captivity Mortality in the Sea Otter, Donald E. Stullken and Charles M. Kirkpatrick
• Growth Rates and Age Determination in Alaskan Beaver, John L. Buckley and W. L. Libby
• Utilization of Atlantic Harp Seal Populations, H. D. Fisher

Big Game Resources

• An Aerial Survey Technique for Northern Big Game, A. W. F. Banfield, D. R. Flook, J. P. Kelsall, and A. G. Loughrey
• Soil Surveys for Game-Range Development, F. P. Cronemiller
• Management of White-Tailed Deer and Ponderosa Pine, George Neils, Lowell Adams, and Robert M. Blair
• Barren-Ground Caribou Movements in the Canadian Arctic, John P. Kelsall
• Increased Natality Resulting from Lowered Population Density Among Elk in Southeastern Washington, Helmut K. Buechner and Carl V. Swanson
• Factors Influencing Mule Deer on Arizona Brushlands, William R. Hanson and Clay Y. McCulloch
• The Concept of Carrying Capacity, R. Y. Edwards and C. David Fowle

Conservation Information Opportunities

• Let's Use Radio, Wilbur D. Stites
• Let's Use Television, James R. Harlan
• What's Wrong with State Conservation Magazines?, Frank Gregg
• Conservation Education in the Northwest, William W. Huber
• The South Is Working on Its Problems, Rose E. Fleming
• Selling Conservation by Conference, D. B. Turner
• Teaching Firearms Safety in Public Schools, John E. Dodge
• The Challenge We Take – Appraisal of the 20th North American Wildlife Conference, Ian McTaggart Cowan
• Acknowledgment of Appreciation, C. R. Gutermuth

Published annually since 1915, the Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference provide a unique and informative record of the direction and momentum of professional natural resource management. Tracking current research and management emphases and the perspectives and approaches to meeting the challenges to sustaining and conserving North America's wildlife and their habitats, the Transactions is a valuable reference for all who deal with the complexities and intricacies of natural resource issues, policies and programs.