Part I - General Sessions - Today's Opportunities for Conservation

• Formal Opening, Ira N. Gabrielson
• Introductory Remarks of the Chairman, Delyte W. Morris
• Today's Opportunities for Conservation in Agricultural Development, D. A. Williams
• Today's Opportunities for Conservation in Forests, Parks and Wilderness, A. W. Greeley
• Today's Opportunities for Conservation in Industrial Developments, Ed Stout
• Conservation in Urban Development, Eldridge Lovelace

Youth and Our Natural Resources

• Remarks of the Chairman, Irving Fiest
• Science and Resources in America, Clarence Cottam
• Boy Scouts as Conservationists, Charles M. Hesitand
• 4-H Clubs Practice Conservation, George Foster
• Future Farmers Learn Conservation, Jerry Lytton
• Education for Future Biological Scientists, Oswald Tippo

The Fight for Conservation

• The Blight of Politics, Ira N. Gabrielson
• Water Pollution—The Shame of America, John A. Blatnik
• Natural Resources Going Out the Window, William E. Towell
• Our Public Lands—Shall the Public Abdicate Control?, Sigurd F. Olson

Part II - Technical Sessions

Disease, Nutrition and Controls

• Remarks of the Chairman, A. B. Cowan
• A Progress Report from the Southeastern Deer Disease Study, Frank A. Hayes, William E. Greer, and Emmett B. Shotts
• Observations on Diseases in Outbreak of Microtus, William L. Jellison, J. Frederick Bell, J. D. Vertrees, M. A. Holmes, Carl L. Larson and Cora R. Owen
• Wildlife Damage Control Problems on Pacific Northwest Tree Farms, William H. Lawrence
• Hookworms in Fur Seals on the Pribilof Islands, O. Wilford Olsen
• Infections in Wildlife with Viruses, L. H. Karstad and R. P. Hanson
• Aspergillosis in Waterfowl, Carlton M. Herman and William J. L. Sladen

Wetlands and Inland Water Resources

• The Time of Formation of Pairs in Black Ducks, Vernon D. Stotts
• Biology and Management of the Hawaiian Goose, William H. Elder and Davis H. Woodside
• The Significance of Farmland for Waterfowl Nesting, Mike Milonski
• Recreation, Fish and Wildlife in California's Water Program, David E. Pelgen
• Relative Efficiency of Gear Used in Fish Population Studies, John L. Funk
• Smallmouth Bass Management in the Potomac River Basin, Albert E. Sanderson
• An Economic Evaluation of the Sport Fishery in Minnesota, Zane Scheftel

Upland Game Resources

• The Importance of Juvenile Breeding to the Annual Cottontail Crop, Rexford D. Lord, Jr.
• Upland Game-Bird Populations in Relation to Cover, Carl V. Swanson and Charles F. Yocom
• Calcium, Phosphorus and Protein Levels as Factors in Pheasant Distribution, Fred H. Dale and James B. DeWitt
• Woodcock Singing Grounds at Cloquet Experimental Forest, William H. Marshall
• Effects of Hunting on Gambel Quail Populations, Steve Gallizioli and Wendell Swank
• Ecological and Social Problems in Texas Quail Management, O. C. Wallmo and P. B. Uzzell
• Effects of Drought and Hunting on Chukar Partridges, Glen C. Christensen

Marine and Coastal Resources

• Irreversible Drainage—A New Factor in Waterfowl Management, William W. Neely
• An Epizootic in Gulf of St. Lawrence Fishes, Carl J. Sindermann
• Distribution and Abundance of Gray Weakfish in the York River, W. H. Massmann, J. P. Whitcomb and A. L. Pacheco
• Problems Relative to the Atlantic Coast Striped Bass Fishery, James E. Sykes
• The Striped Bass Relative to Multiple Use of Roanoke River, William W. Hassler
• Estuarine Ecology of Florida Waters and Effects on Weakfish, Durbin Tabb
• Distribution of Menhaden in the Gulf of Mexico, Royal D. Suttkus

Big Game Resources

• Problems Involved in the Use of Deer Pellet Group Counts, W. Leslie Robinette
• Estimating the Effects of Exploitation Through Life Tables, Horace F. Quick
• Black Bear Research in New York, Hugh C. Black
• Management of Big Game Resources in Uganda, East Africa, George A. Petrides and Wendell G. Swank
• Results of Deer Exclosure-Experiments in Ottawa National Forest, Samuel A. Graham
• Elk and Elk Hunting in Idaho, Levi L. Mohler, Paul D. Dalke and Wesley M. Shaw
• Sex Determination in Dressed Elk Carcasses, Richard N. Denney

Conservation Education

• Resource Management and Human Ecology, George B. Happ
• Can Weak-Kneed Education Retain Wildlife Values?, J. V. K. Wagar
• Conservation Education in Australia and New Zealand, Walter P. Taylor
• Junior Colleges Work in Conservation, Too!, Paul A. White
• Natural Areas and Education, Paul Bruce Dowling
• The Future of Wildlife in Northern Mexico, Rollin H. Baker
• Whither Conservation in American Colleges?, Charles E. Lively
• Conservation in an Expanding Economy: Conference Appraisal, E. R. Kalmbach
• Acknowledgment of Appreciation, C. R. Gutermuth

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