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    1. What facts are needed. 
 
    2. Who can, get them. 
 
    3. What scheme for the stiuxmlation and coordination of effort would
work. 
 
    4. How much of the work could be financed locally, and what funds munst

          be sought elsewhere. 
 
    Such a   survey, it is estimated, could be made in three months by one
or 
 
two men. 
 
S'Ponsors 
 
     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 Societies 
 
     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 
 
the funds to do it alone and unaided. On the other hand, 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 "Depression"

 
is cause for delay. The preliminary survey on which to base a plan would
cost 
 
little--perhaps $4,000 if partly done on contributed time. Some actual research

 
work could be started as soon as a plan has been drawn, and on the return
of 
 
normal economic conditions the project would be "all set" to go
full steam ahead. 
 
                                         Aldo Leopold, Consulting rorester

 
                                         S. B. Locke, Director of Conservation,

                                            Izaak Walton League of America