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extra cost, to dig up facts pertinent to sagehens and their environment.

 
 
Bur   '. Mhere is needed, first of all, an orientation survey to specify

 
roughly: 
 
         1. What facts are needed 
 
         2. 1ho can get them 
 
         3. What scheme for the stimulation and coordination of effort 
           would work 
 
         44 How much of the work could be financed locally, and what funds

           mast be sought elsewhere. 
 
        Such a survey, it is estimated, could be made in three months 
 
by one or two men. 
 
 
fponsors. The following national organizations, or several of them jointly,

 
might properly sponsor such a survey: 
 
        U. S. Biological Survey 
 
        National Research Council 
 
        National Association of Audubon Sooleties 
 
        Izaak Walton League 
 
        American Game Association 
 
        More Game Birds in America, Inc. 
 
        The undersigned have been trying for three years to get certain 
 
western universities and game departments to embark on this project, 
 
but they have not th4 funds to do it alone and unaided. On the other 
 
and many of them have signified a desire to contribute toward it. All 
 
that is needed is a plan and a leader. Would your organization be interested

 
in being the leader and financing the slight expense of drawing a plan? 
 
We do not think that D1spression" is cause for delay. The preliminary