Originally scheduled to meet in New York City, February 26, 27 and 28, 1945, at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Government ban on all conventions, made effective February 1, 1945, necessitated cancellation of actual meetings. The major portion of the papers planned for this Conference are printed herewith.

Land Use for Public Hunting

• Progress of the Public Game Lands Program in Pennsylvania, Seth Gordon
• Evaluation of the New York State Experimental Cooperative Landowner-Sportsman Controlled Public Hunting Ground Program 1939–1943, A. W. Bromley

Waterfowl

• Basic Concepts of Waterfowl Management, Ira N. Gabrielson
• Thoughts of a Duck Hunter, Ray P. Holland
• Migratory Waterfowl Conditions in Saskatchewan, C. L. Bertrand
• The Permanent Value of Refuges in Waterfowl Management, J. Clark Salyer II
• California's Wildfowl Conditions, H. R. Basford
• Flyway Regulations, Frederick C. Lincoln
• A Few Comments on Wildfowling, Frederick K. Barbour

In the Wake of War

• Retraining the G.I. to Shoot Safely, Col. George O. Van Orden
• Hunting Accidents, C. B. Lister
• Fitness Examination for Hunters, W. C. Shaffer
• The Semi-Automatic as a Sporter, Commander Thurman Randle

Production and Marketing of Fur

• The Problem of Undertrapping in Muskrat Management, Daniel W. Lay
• Capacity of Illinois Land Types to Produce Furs, Lee E. Yeager
• Pelting Equipment and How to Skin, Flesh, Stretch and Dry Pelts, Harry Van Cleve
• Processing Hudson Seal, David L. Levin
• Research an Important Factor in Fur Seal Management, Robert K. Enders
• Economics of the Fur Trade, Alexander T. Macleod
• Comments on the Papers on the Fur Industry Program, Samuel A. Graham

Forest Lands and Wildlife

• Introductory Remarks, N. W. Hosley
• Forest Wildlife and National Forest Land Management Practices, Theodore C. Fearnow
• Proposed Management of Forested Game Lands in Pennsylvania, C. C. Freeburn
• Observations of the Incompatibility of Wood and Game Production, Paul A. Herbert
• Environmental Analysis of Forest Edges in Relation to Wildlife, Frank B. Barick
• Small Mammals of the Forest, William J. Hamilton, Jr., and David B. Cook
• Is the Bag Limit Enough?, J. V. K. Wagar
• Timber and Game – Twin Crops, Harold Titus

Croplands and Wildlife

• Introductory Remarks, Warren W. Chase
• The Outlook for Farm Wildlife, Aldo Leopold
• Some Biologic and Economic Aspects of Field Border Management, Charles A. Dambach
• Management of Bob-White on the Oak-Tall Grass Prairie, North Central Oklahoma, F. M. Baumgartner
• Water, Fishes, and Cropland Management, Thomas H. Langlois
• A Farmer Looks at Wildlife Management, Hartwell E. Roper
• Experimental Cookery with Surplus Fish and Wildlife, Anna M. Olsen and George O. Hendrickson

Commercial Fisheries

• The Economic Future of the Atlantic Fisheries from the Point of View of an Ocean Pound-Net Operator, Robert L. Doxsee
• Interstate Cooperation in the Fishery Field on the Atlantic Coast, Wayne D. Heydecker
• Utilization of the Surf Clam Mactra Solidissima, Joseph B. Glancy

Marshes, Water, and Wildlife

• Introductory Remarks, James Nelson Gowanloch
• Improvement of Fishing in Old Ponds, H. S. Swingle
• The Relation of Land Reclamation to Aquatic Wildlife Resources in Southeastern Louisiana, William T. Penfound and John D. Schneidau
• A Waterfowl Banding Study on a New Impoundment, Carl R. Warren
• Half a Thousand Miles of Public Trout Stream, John R. Greeley
• Some Results of Waterfowl Banding in Western Canada by Ducks Unlimited (Canada), B. W. Cartwright
• Economic Importance of the Water Hyacinth, Eichhornia Crassipes, in Management of Water Areas, James Nelson Gowanloch

Parks, Refuges, Urban Lands, and Wildlife

• Introductory Remarks, J. J. Hickey
• Research Problems on the United States National Wildlife Refuges, Clarence Cottam
• People, Roberts Mann
• Unsolved Problems Concerning Wildlife in Mexican National Parks, William Vogt
• National and International Conservation Problems, Carl D. Shoemaker

Educational Forum

• Education and Wildlife Conservation, Ira N. Gabrielson
• Postwar Problems in Forestry Education, N. W. Hosley
• Extension Specialists for Wildlife a Necessity, George W. McCullough
• Ecology as the Basis for Training Teachers in Nature and Conservation Education, Richard L. Weaver

Range Lands and Wildlife

• Introductory Remarks, James N. Templer
• Big Game and Livestock on the Western Range, H. E. Schwan
• All Flesh Is Grass, Clifford C. Presnall
• Range Rodents and Plant Succession, Richard M. Bond
• Methods of Determining Trends in Big Game Numbers and Range Conditions, Gilbert N. Hunter
• Deer Management Problems as Related to Diseases and Parasites of Domestic Range Livestock, Carlton M. Herman
• National Park Wildlife Ranges, Harold M. Ratcliff and Lowell Sumner
• Big Game–Range Livestock Competition on Western Ranges, L. A. Stoddart and D. I. Rasmussen

Recent Developments in Wildlife Research

• Introductory Remarks, Douglas E. Wade
• Some Recent Cooperative Researches at Wisconsin in Fishery Biology, Arthur D. Hasler
• Causes of Death Among Indiana Fishes, William E. Ricker
• Relation of Buffer Species Abundance to Fox Predation on Grouse Nests, Robert W. Darrow
• Waterfowl and Their Management in Inland Texas, Hilbert R. Siegler

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