TUCSON 
                           COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
                                 AND               October 21, 1932 
 Mr. Aldo Leopold       AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 
 905 University Ave. 
 Madison, Wis. 
 
 
 Dear Mr. Leopold: 
                 As you know, I am attending the university this win- 
 ter and carrying a full course in addition to keeping up the fikkd 
 work, which means that I am continually on the verge of being swamp- 
 ed with work. It is however all very interesting and worthwhile, 
 but it leaves little time for such things as correspondence, so you 
 will have to overlook the fault if I fail to write often. 
                  I received the reprint on the Iowa Game Survey, and 
 also the quail mamagement bulletin you sent and have read both with 
 great interest. I wish we had a bit more money available at the 
 university so I might get a few publications on the press which are 
 now hanging fire, but I guess that will happen in time if I am a bit 
 more patient. 
                  The educational circulars are not yet on the press, 
 but I have taken the Matter up with President Shantz, and believe I 
 will get sor'e action soon; one trouble has been that the university 
 hps no series which provides for such publishing, and premy hopes to 
 make my publications an individual series which I am highly in fav- 
 or of. 
                  I have started a historicvl study of the Gambel and 
 am enclosing a form letter and questionnaire which I am sending out 
 to two hundred "Old Timers" in the state. I can think of no better

 way of establishing the contacts neces*ary for such a study~and hope 
 in this manner to get many leads thvt will prove of real v lue. What 
 do you think of the ideaT I have arranged with Dr. A.E.Douglas, our 
 astronomer of National fame, and discoverer of the tree ring method 
 of past climatic condition studies, to join me in applying the tree- 
 ring methods of study as a check for my historical findings, and then 
 in turn use these for a deyelopement of game managementtmethods in 
 the future. I believe this will inject anN entirely new xxglg angle 
\nto any present day game management policies, and is something that 
I am highly enthousiastic about. I have had this in mind for some 
time, and wa highly elated to find Dr. Douglas greatly interested 
when I explained the idea to him. 
                 We are having soie cold,wet, weather at present, and 
 I expect to see a rather severe winter.    I was quite surprised to 
 find ducks on the border two months ago which is quite a bit early, 
 and perhaps indicative of severe weather farther north. The Lark 
 Buntings also came in about fifteen days early, and the Cooper hawks 
 have been coming in in steadily increasing numbers for the past 
 month. All this may, or may not,mean anything, but I am inclined 
 to accet it as an indicetor of bad weather. 
                 I must close now and pound out some German. 
                 Trusting to hear fromi you soon, and with best per- 
 sonal regards, I am, 
 
 
                                           Ve   truly yous