PART I - GENERAL SESSIONS

Wildlife and the Land

• Formal Opening, Ira N. Gabrielson, Frederic C. Walcott, Howard D. Dodgen
• Wildlife Conservation in Mexico Is an Educational Problem, Luis Macias A.
• Wildlife Conditions in Canada, Harrison F. Lewis
• Watersheds and National Forests, Lyle F. Watts
• American Wildlife and the Land, Hugh H. Bennett
• Wildlife Conservation in the Postwar World, Albert M. Day
• Wake Up, America!, Melvin O. Steen

Is Wildfowling on the Way Out?

• Introductory Remarks, Harold Titus
• Wildfowling Can Be Saved, Charles E. Gillham
• The Effect of Concentrated Hunting Pressure on Waterfowl Breeding Stock, H. Albert Hochbaum
• Wildfowling Is Not Necessarily on the Way Out, John H. Baker
• Waterfowl at the Crossroads, Clarence Cottam

Is Wildlife Education Getting Results?

• Introductory Remarks, Douglas E. Wade
• More Public Knowledge–Less High Dams, Charles E. Jackson
• Professional Opportunities in the Fish and Wildlife Field, David B. Turner
• Texas Extension Wildlife Program and Some Results, R. E. Callender
• Signposts of Success, Roberts Mann

Wildlife and Business

• Conservation Day Pledge Ceremony, Carl D. Shoemaker
• Economic Importance of the Fur Industry, G. Donald Gibbons
• Economic and Human Psychology in Water Pollution, Kenneth A. Reid
• Conservation of Pacific Coast Commercial Fisheries, W. F. Thompson
• This Wildlife Business, Newton B. Drury
• The Contest for Western Public Game Fields, J. V. K. Wagar

PART II - TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Wildlife of Grasslands and Forests

• The Role of Brush Control in Habitat Improvement on the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Harold L. Blakey
• Range Use of the Pronghorned Antelope in Western Texas, Helmut K. Buechner
• Nine-Year Observation of a Deer Problem Area, Arthur S. Einarsen
• Planning of Management Programs for Western Big-Game Herds, D. I. Rasmussen and Everett R. Doman
• Relationship of Weather to Winter Mortality and Population Levels Among Deer in the Adirondack Region of New York, C. W. Severinghaus
• Range Competition Between Mule Deer, Bighorn Sheep, and Elk in Jasper Park, Alberta, Ian McTaggart Cowan

Inland Fisheries and Fresh-Water Areas

• Botulism Control by Water Manipulation, Charles C. Sperry
• The Management of Fresh-Water Fisheries in Texas, Marion Toole
• How Can We Provide More Successful Fishing Trips in the Southeast?, Willis King
• Maintenance of Angling in California, A. C. Taft
• A Ten-Year Management Program on an East Texas Lake, J. K. G. Silvey and B. B. Harris
• Fish Management - A Substitute for Natural Predation, George W. Bennett

New Techniques in Wildlife Management

• Game Watering Devices for the Arid Southwest, Ben Glading
• Some New Techniques - Hoofed Mammals, Walter P. Taylor
• Review of New Techniques - Fur Bearers and Other Small Animals, Charles T. Vorhies
• Review of New Techniques - Gallinaceous Birds, Irven O. Buss
• Review of New Techniques - Waterfowl, Jessop B. Low
• The Effects of Ammonium Sulfamate on Emergent Aquatic Vegetation, Aden C. Bauman

Marine Fisheries and Ocean Areas

• On the Fisheries Resources of the Central Pacific, Wilbert McLeod Chapman
• The Laguna Madre of Texas, Joel W. Hedgpeth
• Some Problems of Marine Fishery Biology, Lionel A. Walford
• Present Eelgrass Condition and Problems on the Atlantic Coast of North America, Clarence Cottam
• Salinity as a Factor in Atlantic Coast Tidewater Muskrat Production, Herbert L. Dozier
• Imperative Need for Gulf of Mexico Pelagic Fishery Inventory, James Nelson Gowanloch

Wildlife and Land-Use Concepts

• Wet Land - How It Should Be Used, Wallace L. Anderson
• Wildlife and the National Park Land-Use Concept, Victor H. Cahalane
• Status of Mexican Big Game Herds, A. Starker Leopold
• New Techniques for Breeding Ground Surveys, Lyle K. Sowls
• The Future of Wildlife in Forest Land Use, Ralph T. King
• A Power Company's Stake in Wildlife, Walter G. Gumbel

Wildlife of Farm and Ranches

• Cottontail Management in Iowa, George O. Hendrickson
• The Pheasant Decline and Land-Use Trends, 1941–1946, Daniel L. Leedy and Eugene H. Dustman
• Maryland's Cooperative Farm-Game Program with Soil Conservation Districts, Malcolm E. King
• Reviewing Eight-Years' Operation of a Wildlife Experiment Station, Harry D. Ruhl
• Seasonal Movements of the Blue Grouse, Leonard Wing
• A Bobwhite Quail Irruption in Northwest Texas Lower Plains Terminated by Predation, Alfred S. Jackson
• The Hoof and Mouth Disease, I. B. Boughton
• Summarization of the Twelfth North American Wildlife Conference, Aldo Leopold

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.