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6. Build up the Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit recently es- 

 tablished at the University of Alaska. This enterprise should 

 help train Alaska boys for better work in territory with which 

 they are familiar and furnish needed information as well. The 

 early interest of the Unit in waterfowl problems is an indication 

 of helpful results for this part of the wildlife resources. It should 

 be encouraged and strengthened at every opportunity. There 

 are almost innumerable waterfowl research and investigative 

 needs that can be better handled in Alaska than elsewhere in 

 American territory. Breeding ground studies of many species can 

 only be developed here, and the Unit can help secure such data. 



7. Expand law enforcement staff enough to enable it to protect the 

 wildlife and fisheries resources upon which Alaska is especially 

 dependent. There has been some improvement in recent years, 

 but a comparison of the size of the task with that of any state or 

 province and a like comparison of the men and resources availa- 

 ble to handle it indicate that the staff is still inadequate. Water- 

 fowl, as well as other resources, have suffered from this deficiency. 



In conclusion, all available information indicates the neces- 

 sity for outlining and carrying out as rapidly as possible an 

 over-all waterfowl management program to maintain and man- 

 age the most important remaining waterfowl breeding grounds 

 under American jurisdiction. It is improbable that with limited 

 information a sufficient program can be completely visualized. 

 A start has been recommended which as it is developed will 

 provide information on which additional details or entirely 

 new major projects can be based. 



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 from April to December, 1906. Proceedings, U. S. National 

 Museum, 38: 25-74. 1910. 



2. Dall, W. H., and H. M. Bannister. List of the birds of Alaska 



with biographical notes. Transactions, Chicago Academy of 

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3. Lincoln, F. C. The migration of the Cackling Goose. Condor, 



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