IRA N. GABRIELSON                                          C. STEWART COMEAUX
President                                                   Treasurer
C. R. GUTERMUTH   WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE              ETHEL M. QUEE
Vice-President                                               Secretary
Dedicated to Wildlife Restoration
INVESTMENT BUILDING, WASHINGTON 5, D. C.
Northeastern Wildlife Station,
University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, N.B.
February I7th, 1948.
Professor Aldo Leopold,
Department of Wildlife Management,
424 University Farm Place,
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wise.
Dear Professor,
I returned to you today the slides you
so kindly lent me last month. They would have been returned sooner
but I had to go on to Washington to attend the latest meeting with
Ducks Unlimited directly after my Halifax meeting where I used
your slides. Many thanks indeed for the slides. They made my talk
as parts of Nova Scotia are reaching the carrying capacity of their
deer range,and I wanted to warn them and show them what a deer line
looked like.
From Washington I went on to the North-
eastern Wildlife Conference in Boston. I was asked about a week
before the conference to give a paper on our work. As my paper has
already been accepted for the Coastal and Marine Session of the
North American Conference in St Louis, I did not feel that I wanted
to steal its thunder by giving it previously at a regional confer-
enceso I substituted a fifteen-minute talk with slides instead of
a formal paper. They seemed to like it, and Dr Ludlow Griscomb came
over after and we had a long talk about our program. He is very
interested and says we are filling a long standing need.
I saw Albert and Art Hawkins in Washingt-
on and we had a bit of a gettogether. The situation with DU looks
a bit more promising as we did get them to agree to submit their
method of computing their population figures to a competent stat-
istician, as will the Fish and Wildlife Service, who will advise
them on the reliability of the method. It was also agreed that both
groups would refrain from publishing a total population figure. This
is a big advance if they can get away with it.
Still no action on the panther protection
law. They are apparently more numerous than I at first believed as
the publicity has resulted in a flood of new reports (of all degrees
of reliability). I was within an hour and a half of seeing one
about two weeks ago,'and I got some new track photos.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,