44. Ex 7/14: w64/948 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SBUCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS CONTENTS Day, Albert M. Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior accompanied by M. C. James, Assistant Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior_. Brown, J. Hammond, secretary, American Waterfowl Committee, Buckingham, Nash, chairman, Waterfowl Committee, Outdoor Writers Association of America, Memphis, Tenn... Hudoba, Michael, Washington editor of the magazine Sports Afield.. Mulkern, Frank, Izaak Walton League, Washington, D. C.--- Shoemaker, Carl, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D. C......... Gutermuth, C. R., vice president, Wildlife Management Institute, Gee, Lt. Col. H. C., Deputy Chief of Civil Works for Flood Control, Corps of Engineers, United States Army.. Swift, Lloyd W., Chief of the Division of Wildlife Management, Forest Graham, Edward H., Chief of the Biology Division, Soil Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Nelson, Wesley R., Assistant Commissioner of Reclamation, Bureau of WILDLIFE CONSERVATION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1949 UNITED STATES SENATE, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION, OF THE THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS, The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to call, in room 135 of the Senate Office Building, Senator James O. Eastland, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Present: Senators Eastland (presiding), Taylor, Robertson, and Schoeppel. Senator EASTLAND. The subcommittee will come to order. Who is first witness? Senator ROBERTSON. I would suggest Mr. Day of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Senator. STATEMENT OF ALBERT M. DAY, DIRECTOR OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ACCOMPANIED BY M. C. JAMES, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mr. DAY. Mr. Chairman, my name is Albert M. Day, and I am Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, of the Department of the Interior. I am delighted to have the opportunity to again meet with this committee, a group which has always been most helpful in the matters of national conservation. The Select Committee on Wildlife Resources was in existence for many, many years. Mr. Carl Shoemaker was its secretary at that time. After the congressional reorganization when the special committee was abolished, this subcommittee was formed and has been functioning since. It has been very effective in hearing the tales of woe that the wildlife-conservation people bring to you and in publishing very comprehensive reports which are exceedingly popular with conservation groups throughout the entire country. I have a short statement that I would like to present at this time. The problems of wildlife conservation are as varied and as changing as the resources we seek to conserve. Yet basically, the problem is ever the same-how to keep the level of the wildlife populations high enough to satisfy the demands of modern civilization, a civilization that wants more and more benefits from this resource, yet by almost every act impairs or destroys the conditions that wildlife needs in order to survive. 1 |