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that through the L.cSweeney-McNary Act and the Lacey Act we have suffi- 
cient authorization to go ahead.    We are working, as you know, very 
closely with the Forest Service, the Bureau of Entomology, the Bureau 
of Animal Industry, the Bureau of Fisheries, and to some extent with 
the National Park Service trying to solve some of the difficult ele- 
ments that tend to interfere with a sound basis of game mangeiment, 
and personally I would rather proceed along this line than to have to 
work under a mandate.     I have found the other bureaus becoming more 
and more interested in our problems in connection with our McSweeney- 
McNary work, and we know we can count on many of the bureaus I have 
named to aid us materially. 
 
        I shall be glad to take this matter up with the Director of 
Extension of the Department, Mr. Warburton, and get his views on pos- 
sibilities of interesting members of the Extension Service in this 
work.   As you know, however, county agents are usually found (I am 
thinking of California in this respect) to be doing naturally their 
greatest and best work where agriculture has the best chance of suc- 
cess, and that does not happen to be in the mountain country.    I re- 
member in my work in the Sierra that it was mighty hard to get the 
county agent who had both a valley and a mountain district to spend 
much time in the latter in advising farmers who at the best were 
making but little success in agriculture on submarginal lands. 
 
       I do not know that we have given you anything that will aid you 
in presenting the subject.   I hope you will not come to the conclusion 
that we are destructively criticizing your points of view.   There is 
no doubt that in some way foresters themselves must come to realize 
the value of game to the forest as a resource, if you please, in marn 
instances of great value to forest management.   I agree absolutely 
that if and when the time appears to be ripe.we can secure the active 
voluntary cooperation of forest land owners and of extension services 
in realizing the great field of action possible a gre~t impetus will 
have been given to game management.    The Biological Survey will be 
more than glad to work with you and others who have long worked so 
well and earnestly in this great undertaking. 
 
 
Very sincerely yours,