Transactions of the 24th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference

Transactions of the 24th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference

Transactions of the 24th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference

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Part I - General Sessions - Better Living for a Growing America

  • Formal Opening, Ira N. Gabrielson
  • Taking Stock in Conservation, Elmer F. Bennett
  • Resource Potentials in Polar Regions, Paul A. Siple
  • The Law and Progress in Conservation, Samuel H. Ordway, Jr.
  • Facing Up to Our Water Problems, S. L. Frost

Billion-Dollar Questions

  • Have We a Conservation Conscience?, Monroe Bush
  • Is Science Serving Conservation?, Hiden T. Cox
  • Is Conservation Education Failing?, William C. Bramble
  • Can Conservation Be Sold "Around the World"?, Harlan Cleveland

Urban, Rural and Wild Land Planning for a Better America

  • Meeting Future Recreational Needs, Laurance S. Rockefeller
  • Metropolitan Sprawl, Melvin E. Scheidt
  • Rural Shrinkage, Edward C. Higbee
  • On Preserving the Wild, David R. Brower

Part II - Technical Sessions

Pesticides and Controls

  • Pest Control in the Modern Setting, Harlow B. Mills
  • Accumulation and Dissipation of Pesticide Residues in Soil, Robert D. Chisholm and Louis Koblitsky
  • Insecticide Residues as Hazards to Warm-Blooded Animals, Norman Gannon and G. C. Decker
  • Pollutional Effects of Organic Insecticides, Clarence M. Tarzwell
  • Wildlife and the Fire Ant Program, Leslie L. Glasgow
  • Pesticide-Wildlife Problems and Research Needs, Daniel L. Leedy
  • Control of Mammal Damage to Plants by Chemical Repellents, Jerome F. Besser and Jack F. Welch

Wetlands and Inland Water Resources

  • The Cackling Goose—Its Migration and Management, Urban C. Nelson and Henry A. Hansen
  • Louisiana Impoundments: Their Fish Populations and Management, Victor W. Lambou
  • Range Conditions, Life History and Food Habits of the Everglades Deer Herd, Charles M. Loveless and Frank Ligas
  • Low Water and Lesser Scaup Reproduction Near Erickson, Manitoba, John P. Rogers
  • Angling Success in Alabama's Public Fishing Lakes, I. B. Byrd
  • Farming for Waterfowl in the Pacific Flyway, Paul M. Scheffer
  • Controlled Goose Shooting at Michigan's Swan Creek High Banks, Charles E. Friley, Jr.

Field and Farm Resources

  • Is the Lincoln Index Reliable for Cottontail Censusing?, T. J. Peterle and L. L. Eberhardt
  • Wide-Row Corn as a Game Management Tool, Paul A. Vohs, Jr.
  • An Evaluation of Woody Cover Plantings as Pheasant Winter Cover, L. Jack Lyon
  • Bobwhites and Benefit Payments, T. S. Baskett and R. E. Tomlinson
  • Some Aspects of Wildlife Population Dynamics, Their Interpretation and Role in Game Management, Kenneth L. Diem
  • Cover Mapping a Five-Million-Acre State from Aerial Photographs, William G. Sheldon
  • Two Decades of Progress on Wisconsin's Public Hunting and Fishing Grounds Program, J. R. Smith and H. C. Jordahl

Marine and Coastal Resources

  • Kodiak Bear–Red Salmon Relationships at Karluk Lake, Alaska, Webster K. Clark
  • Sea Lion Studies in Alaska, O. A. Mathisen
  • On the Possibilities of Improving Salmon Spawning Areas, William F. Royce
  • Status and Management of Polar Bear and Pacific Walrus, Robert F. Scott, Karl W. Kenyon, and John L. Buckley
  • Food Habits of Wild Mallard Ducks in Three Louisiana Parishes, Olan W. Dillon, Jr.
  • Late Nesting of Water Birds in South Texas, Clarence Cottam and Caleb Glazener
  • New Horizons in Stocking Hatchery Trout, Paul R. Needham

Forest and Range Resources

  • Effect of Tubocurarine Chloride on the Red Deer, Zbigniew Jaczewski and Mieczyslaw Czaja
  • Emergency Winter Feeding of Wild Turkeys in Northern States, Roger M. Latham
  • Moose Harvests in Newfoundland and Fennoscandian Countries, Douglas H. Pimlott
  • Whose Space and for What?, Arthur D. Smith
  • A Deer Drive vs. Track Census, Edwin L. Tyson
  • Wildlife Challenges in East Africa, Noel M. Simon and George Treichel
  • Big Game Management in the Lake States, Harry D. Ruhl

Education and Public Relations

  • Straight Answers About Posted Land, Joseph S. Larsen
  • The Conservation Knowledge of Public School Pupils, Robert H. Giles, Jr.
  • Telling the Conservation Story via Television, Allen H. Benton
  • A Theory of the Value of Hunting, Paul Shepard, Jr.
  • Responsibilities to Conservationists in Foreign Lands, John F. Wanamaker
  • Ecology in the High School: "A New Attack on an Old Problem", George Cornwell
  • Helping Schools Study Wildlife, John W. Brainerd
  • Resources, People, and Space: A Critique of the 24th North American Wildlife Conference, Durward L. Allen
  • 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.

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