(d) Individual cooperators S Many hours work has bern done
and keen interest has been aroused throughout the re:ion
among sportsments groups by the publicity attached to our
starting work in the East. This cooperative spirit would
be extremely hard to arouse a second ti e if it is
disapp ointed now,
5. The best possible answer to the present criticisms of D.U. is
the publication of an ecological study which conforms to the
highest standards of wild life research. Such a study is already
half completed and will require the remainder of this season to
complete the field work and next winter to work up. The total
cost will be under $8,000.00 to put this study in shape for
publication,
. The results of the study so far have in no way shown that there
is nothin; D.U. can do in Eastern Canada. Marsh management in this
region will not take the forn of providin,- water as it does in
the West but will more likely take the form of auMenting the food
supply by having farmers letave a few rows of food crops on the bck
of their fieldsor by breaking up lurge areas of marsh with pot-
holes and alough; an changing the plant succession to a more
desirable type Of b.rning. The increased breeding stock ill be
provided by tnhe restrictions of the bag limit which are imninent
without any urging by DU.
7. I have built up a team for this study which it would be in the
interest of D.U. to retain. B. C. Carter, B.Sc. Forestry, has
refused an offer of $2440.00 from the Dominion Forestry Service
to come to us at $125,00 per month, as he wants to enter wild
life work as a career. He is enrolled for .his masterts degree in
wild life management at the University of Toronto next fall and
will thus be one of the first graduating class in this subject from
a Canadian University. He would like to make a career of D.U.
A. B. Skead has served under me in the Commandos for 2 years. He
left a job at higher.pay in Northern B.C. and crossed Canada at his
own expense to work for me at $90.00 per month. He will not work for
D.U. at this figure except under me and I as banking on him as my
permanent non-technical assistant. Both of these men I will
personally vouch for as I have known them for a long ti e and have a
very close inti..iate association with them.
8. In view of the above, I submit that the Blhck Duck study should be
completed tnis year and the findings published as an official D.U.
publication, whether.' or not they indicate that there is any definite
action to ..n' taken by D.U. in the East. This publication wilL be
the answer to any criticism that the D.U, prograrse is not based
upon sound ecological field work.
B. 8. Wri ,
Manager, Writimes & Quebo.
L.U. (Canada)