(b) In Other Stat. Oklahoma made a study from 1932 to 1935 (Verne  . 
Davison) but gave p. A mamsclpt report exists. There is now some chance that

Oklahoma will rfiive this work under federal aid. 
Teas (V. W. Lhmann) is Just winding up a comprshenuive study of the 
Attwater Prairie Ren (1936-1939). This is being published. 
Michigan (G. B. Saunders) has been studying qharptails since 1934. This work

is mainly a search for immediately applicable administrative techniques,
which 
are -ublished from time to time. 
Utah (Marshall, Jensen, Lee. et al) has studied the Columbian Sharptail since

1935, and is publishing currently. 
Illinois (Teatter) has studied the pinnate intensively since 1934. The findings

are valuble buat for the most part unublished. 
Minnesota (Manweler) has done intensive work on banding and sex and age 
criteria on shartil since 1937, This is published. but now threatened with

discontinuance. 
Missouri., Iowa. Ohio hrve made fragmentary studies. 
Since 1937 an informal gop of volunteers known as the "Lake States Bnding

CooperAve" has banded prairie chickens, using this office as a cleazing
house. 
This volunteer system stretches from the Dakotas to Hichian. A great deal
of 
difficult labor has been done without cost. 
(c) Conclusions. The whole decade of experience may be sumed up thusi 
The prairie grouse nresent a problem too difficult to be solved by local

or sporadic effort. To relinquish the problem would be a major defeat for
wildlife 
conservation, and would leave Wisconsin in the position of not knowing what
to do 
with a large area on which much moner has been i will be spent. 
The imedtate need is to keep the lisconsin work alive in the hope that It
can 
be reorganized on a larger scale under the Conservation Dpartment, nrobably
under 
federal aid now available. A shift of personnel at this time would mean the
loss of