HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
ELEVENTH LEGISLATURE 
REGULAR SESSION 
 
 
        HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 5 
 
 
 
             Introduced by Mr. Nugent of Pima. 
 
 
 
TO THE HONORABLE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE- 
  SENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
  IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED: 
 
  1      The eleventh State Legislature of the State of Arizona, 
  2    in regular session convened, requests consideration of the 
  8    following: 
  4      Whereas, the natural wild life resources (including wild 
  5    game, fur-bearing animals, insectivorous mammals and 
  6    birds, and many other species of scientific, educational 
  7    and recreational interest) of the State of Arizona and the 
  8    southwest are already recognized as constituting im- 
  9    portant present and future assets, and 
  10     Whereas, there exists in the state of Arizona and the 
  11   southwest, many problems of regulation of numbers of 
  12   such species as flesh-eating animals predatory on live 
  13   stock and game, and plant-eating rodents detrimental to 
  14   farm, forage, and forest, and 
  16     Whereas, the proper management of wild life resources, 
  16   whether neutral, harmful or beneficial, is intimately re- 
  17   lated to important problems in farming, stock raising, 
  18   recreational development, forestry, soil conservation, and 
  19   maintenance of watershed, and 
  20     Whereas, the proper management of these natural re- 
  21   sources is absolutely dependent on a full and accurate 
  22   knowledge of the lives and habits of wild life, which know- 
  28   ledge can only be provided by long-time studies by special- 
  34   ists possessing advanced training in the biological scienc- 
  25   es, and experience in practical field conditions, and who 
  26   should be equipped with all needful laboratory space and 
  27   scientific apparatus for the prosecution of their studies, 
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