COMMISSIONERS 
WM. H. LOUTIT 
   GRAND HAVEN. CHAIRMAN 
HAROLD TITUS 
   TRAVERSE CITY 
PHILIP SCHUMACHER 
   ANN ARBOR 
W. H. NEWETT 
   ISHPEMING 
LEE J. SMITS 
   DETROIT 
HARRY H. WHITELEY 
   DOWAGIAC 
 E. C. VOGHT 
   ESCANABA 
 
 
STATE OF MICHIGAN 
 
 
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 
 
                LANSING 
 
 
GEORGE R. HOGARTH. DIRECTOR 
 
 
RAY E. COTTON 
   INCRETARV 
 
 
HUGH E. GREEN 
   CHIEF CONSERVATION OFFICER 
GENEVIEVE MCCANN 
   CHIEF CLERK 
P. J. HOFFMASTER 
   PARKS 
MARCUS SCHAAF 
   FORESTER 
R.A. SMITH 
   GEOLOGIST 
H. R. SAYRE 
   FOREST FIRE 
S. G. FONTANNA 
   LANDS 
FRED A. WESTERMAN 
   FISH & FISHERIES 
P. S. LOVEJOY 
   GAME 
L. R. SCHOENMANN 
   LAND ECONOMIC SURVEY 
EDWARD A. HYER 
   EDUCATION 
HOMER S. MURPHY 
   POLLUTION 
 
 
March 13, 1930. 
 
 
Mr. Aldo Leopold, 
421 Chemistry Bldg., 
Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
Dear Leopold: 
 
           Here is a clipping from which you will see that 
your Mr. Feitz is strongly recommending that this Department 
get going with Wild Turkeys in southern Michigan - farm country. 
 
           Some time after he had given out his views, as I 
gathered, he asked me "what I had against the turkey," but I 
was not entirely satisfied that he was listening while I 
recited the several considerations quite certainly involved. 
 
           It happens that Ben East, the outdoor editor for the 
Grand Rapids Press and the Booth papers, from one of which the 
clipping is taken, is also a strong advocate of turkeys for the 
southern counties, and on up into the oak-scrub districts. 
"Dontt oaks have acorns?" he asks us. We answer, "Sometimes

they do, and sometimes they don't; and then what - in a deep-snow 
country?", and await replies, but do not lack for editorials as 
per the attached. 
 
           We are anxious to be well advised and reasonably sound 
 in our conclusions* What do you advise?     If, for any reason you 
 do not find your views in harmony with those of Messrs. Feitz 
 (and East), what, if anything, might be done about it?   We are, 
 of course, anxious to avoid controversy, and anxious to develop 
 sound procedure in game management. 
 
 
PSL: OH 
3ncl. 
 
 
Yours very truly, 
 
 
 
  P. S. ovejoy 
 
  Game Division 
 
 
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