Federal Wildlife Conservation Activities, 1947. Hearings on ... April 26-8, 19481948 - 320 pages |
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... past 3 years , which represents a rate of building about three times higher than before the war . Most of the difficulties that beset the industry during the war have dis- appeared . The annual catch during the past several years has ...
... past 3 years , which represents a rate of building about three times higher than before the war . Most of the difficulties that beset the industry during the war have dis- appeared . The annual catch during the past several years has ...
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... past 2 years the situation with reference to waterfowl has been particularly acute . In 1934 there were only a little over half a million duck hunters . About the beginning of the war there were a million and a half . During the 1946-47 ...
... past 2 years the situation with reference to waterfowl has been particularly acute . In 1934 there were only a little over half a million duck hunters . About the beginning of the war there were a million and a half . During the 1946-47 ...
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... past two winters have included not only the United States but important wintering grounds in Canada , southeastern Alaska , Puerto Rico , Haiti , the Dominican Republic , Cuba , Mexico and countries of central America , and northern ...
... past two winters have included not only the United States but important wintering grounds in Canada , southeastern Alaska , Puerto Rico , Haiti , the Dominican Republic , Cuba , Mexico and countries of central America , and northern ...
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... past several years we have been putting our chief emphasis on the development of wintering areas . This was necessary to bring the refuge system into better balance . Nine out of eleven new refuges established during the past 3 years ...
... past several years we have been putting our chief emphasis on the development of wintering areas . This was necessary to bring the refuge system into better balance . Nine out of eleven new refuges established during the past 3 years ...
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... past years . We are constantly expanding our road systems farther back into the hunting areas and , of course , we have the air- planes which can take hunters anywhere who can afford that kind of transportation . So , the opportunities ...
... past years . We are constantly expanding our road systems farther back into the hunting areas and , of course , we have the air- planes which can take hunters anywhere who can afford that kind of transportation . So , the opportunities ...
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Page 7 - Interior and in accordance with the rules and regulations made pursuant to this Act.
Page 6 - For the purposes of this act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $3,300,000,000.
Page 11 - Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
Page 7 - State may jointly determine at what times, and in what amounts, payments, as work progresses, shall be made under this Act. Such payments shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, on warrants drawn by the Secretary of...
Page 11 - Congress; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.
Page 226 - Providing that the penalties and procedure applicable to violations of the laws for the protection and preservation of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 8 - Washington, to purchase such supplies, material, equipment, office fixtures and apparatus, and to incur such travel and other expense as he may deem necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
Page 5 - Nothing herein shall be deemed to permit the taking of migratory birds on any reservation or sanctuary established under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929 (45 Stat.
Page 7 - The sum apportioned to any State which fails to notify the Secretary of the Interior as herein provided is authorized to be made available for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the provisions of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act.
Page 11 - ... to what extent, if at all, and by what means, it is compatible with the terms of the convention to allow hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, or export of any such bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, and to adopt suitable regulations permitting and governing the same, in accordance with such determinations, which regulations shall become effective when approved by the President.