In connection with this preliminary project, we shall 
 
 ascertain details concerning the data on resources existence and 
 
 use which is currently available in the United States, and learn 
 
 the extent of its world coverage, which will aid in arriving at 
 
 intelligible definitions of minimum uniform data required in places 
 
 whore it does not exist today. 
 
         Such study might directly lead to the development of an 
 
 additional project. That is, the preparation, by the conclusion 
 
 of the first twelve months, of a well presented report upon the 
 
 "Information Now Available Concerning Natural Resources in the 
 
 United States -- Their Distribution, Use and Dissipation". The 
 
 object here would be to collect and analyse data available not only 
 
 in Washington but regionally as well throughout the United States, 
 
 and present facts and conclusions in graphic form which should be 
 
 a startling basis for the appeal for long range funds. It seems 
 
 probable that at least two or three graduate students might have to 
 
 be given grants in aid and assigned to several regions of the United 
 
 States to compile available material for such presentation. Their 
 
 studies would have to be carefully planned, coordinated, and directed 
 
 by a mature Director. Contacts and openings would have to be made for 
 
 them and there would need to be close follow-up of the time on the ac- 
 
 tivity and program of each. 
 
         A third desirable project, in view of the sponsorship of the 
 
Zoological Society and the wide interest among philanthropists in the 
 
wild life aspects of conservation, would seem to be to analyse all 
 
that has been written with reference to the relationship of wild life 
 
to other forms of resources conservation, and perhaps issue a 
 
separate report, well illustrated, concerning the affect on animal life 
 
of the facts disclosed in the proposed report on U. S. resources, use 
 
and dissipation. 
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