Part I - General Sessions - Natural Resources and Individual Needs

• Formal Opening, Ira N. Gabrielson
• Our Soil–Our Strength, Lloyd W. Lowery
• Conservation From a Rancher's Viewpoint, A. P. Atkins
• Tree Farming Pays Off, E. R. Wagoner
• How Conservation Meets Recreational Needs, Norman Kraeft

Natural Resources and Community Values

• Remarks of the Chairman, Patrick Healey, Jr.
• America the Ugly, Bernard F. Hillenbrand
• How Conservation Helps Business and Industry, Robert B. Meyner
• Upstream Flood Protection, L. L. Males
• How Forest Land Ownership in the South Affects the Community, Frank Heyward

Measures of Resource Worth

• Where We Stand Today in Conservation, Seth Gordon
• The Economic Values of Conservation, Oris V. Wells
• Conservation for More and More People, Joseph L. Fisher

Part II - Technical Sessions - Depredations Control Symposium

• Remarks of the Chairman, James S. Lindzey
• The Nature and Extent of Bird Depredations on Crops, Maurice L. Giltz
• Management to Avoid Bird Depredations, Robert T. Mitchell
• Management to Avoid Waterfowl Depredations, Clinton H. Lostetter
• Rice Culture in Chicot County as Pertaining to Blackbirds, Clifton M. Powell
• The State Game Department and Bird Depredations, Harold E. Alexander
• The Agricultural Experiment Station in Relation to Bird Depredations, Francis J. Williams
• Research on Control of Blackbird Depredations, James J. Lindzey
• Public Health in Relation to Birds, Harold Norlin Johnson, M.D.
• Problem Birds, Carl W. Buchheister
• Federal Responsibilities in Bird Depredations, Lansing A. Parker

Wetlands and Inland Water Resources

• Wild Rice Production From New Wetlands, Charles H. Stoddard
• Waterfowl Foods in Louisiana Ricefields, Bobby G. Harmon, Carl H. Thomas, and Leslie Glasgow
• Lead Poisoning Ducks Wintering on the Detroit River, George S. Hunt
• A Possible Relationship Between Aquatic Invertebrates and Avian Botulism, Wayne L. Jensen and Jack P. Allen
• Raccoon Predation on Waterfowl, Leonard M. Llewelyn and Clark G. Webster
• Fish and Wildlife Management on Watershed Projects, Roy A. Grizzell, Jr.
• Stream Values, Recreational Use, and Preservation, Harold E. Alexander

Field and Farm Resources

• Evaluation of Pheasant Nesting Habitat in South Dakota, Carl G. Trautman
• Analysis of Pheasant Nesting in Nebraska, Raymond L. Linder, David L. Lyon, and C. Phillip Agee
• Water Requirements of Gambel's Quail, Charles R. Hungerford
• Bobwhite Quail: A Product of Longleaf Pine Forests, Vincent H. Reid and Phil D. Goodrum
• Migrational Homing, Movement, and Mortality of Mourning Doves, Roy E. Tomlinson, Howard M. Wight, and Thomas S. Baskett
• Importance of Food to Cottontail Winter Mortality, Rexford D. Lord and David A. Casteel, Jr.
• Pesticidal Residues in Animal Tissues, James B. DeWitt, Calvin M. Menzie, Vyto A. Adomaitis, and William L. Reichel

Coastal and Marine Resources

• Methods of Enumerating Salmon in Alaska, Richard R. Straty
• Oil Pollution of the Seas, Lester A. Giles and John Livingston
• Problems of Whale Conservation, Richard M. Laws
• Role of Estuarine Waters in Gulf Fisheries, Bernard E. Skud and William B. Wilson
• Abundance of St. Johns River Shad, Charles H. Walburg
• Management Techniques in an Offshore Fishery, Lee F. Brackett
• Pacific Salmon in International Waters, Allan C. Hartt

Forest and Range Resources

• Trapping, Immobilizing and Color-Marking Grizzly Bears, John J. Craighead, Maurice Hornocker, Wesley Woodgerd, and Frank C. Craighead, Jr.
• An Evaluation of Colorado's Access Problems, Keith G. Hay
• Effects of Rights of Way Techniques on Vegetation, Dale Howard Arner
• A Salable Approach to the Cattle–Elk Competition Problem, Dale A. Jones
• Seasonal Movements and Breeding Behavior of Sage Grouse in Idaho, Paul D. Dalke, Duane B. Pyrah, Don C. Stanton, John E. Crawford, and Edward Sclatterer
• Browsing and Stand Regeneration in Clear- and Selectively-Cut Hardwoods, Thomas H. Ripley and Robert A. Campbell
• Recent Advances in the Field Immobilization of Large Mammals, Helmut K. Beuchner, A. M. Harthoorn, and John A. Lock

Public Relations and Education

• Natural Resources and Public Relations in Europe, Walter P. Taylor
• Why More Economists Are Not Conservationists, Gilbert Banner
• Successes, Pitfalls, and Techniques in Wildlife Television, Douglas L. Gilbert
• Emerging Goals for Resource-Use Education, George L. Fersh
• Keeping the Child in Touch With the Earth, Alfred G. Etter
• Wildlife Management and the Customer, Stanley A. Cain
• Public Relations and Education in the Wildlife Field, Robert D. Calkins
• Natural Resources and American Citizenship: A Critique of the 25th North American Natural Resources and Wildlife Conference, W. Winston Mair
• Acknowledgements, 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.