sources, and most units liave projects specifically 

 financed by granting agencies. Each unit is ad- 

 ministered by a Coordinating Committee includ- 

 ing representatives of the university, the game and 

 fish department, and the Bureau of Sport 

 Fishei-ies and Wildlife. 



Re,sults of research completed during 1964 are 

 reported in a few instances under applicable pro- 

 gram activities of the Bureau. The 138 publica- 

 tions for the year are listed in appendix E. 



Wildlife graduates at unit schools. — Since the 

 inception of the unit program in 1935, a total of 

 4,328 students have been graduated from universi- 

 ties where Cooijerative Wildlife Research Units 

 are, or have been, located. This number includes 

 3,092 with bachelors degrees, 1,059 with master's 

 degrees, and 177 with doctoral degi-ees. 



In the school year 1963-64, the following re- 

 ceived wildlife degi-ees from the 18 unit schools: 

 bachelors 180, mastere 46, doctors 19, total 245. 

 About 70 percent of the recipients of advanced 

 degrees received financial aid or equipment from 

 the Units. 



Employment of unit graduates. — Of 4,330 wild- 

 life-trained individuals graduating from unit 

 schools, approximately 70 percent are employed 

 in the wildlife profession, or were before retire- 

 ment or decease. Many hold responsible positions 

 in State and Federal agencies charged with wild- 

 life resource achninistration, management, and 

 research. Most unit graduates holding the doc- 

 torate have gone into teaching, nearly all in wild- 

 life or wildlife-allied fields, but an appreciable 

 percentage are supervisors of State and Federal 



research programs. Men with master's degrees 

 have tended to go into wildlife management or 

 research, usually on an assigned project or as a 

 member of a research team. 



Nearly all research performed under unit aus- 

 pices has been in the form of graduate problems 

 satisfying thesis requirements for advanced de- 

 grees. The results of most such studies have been 

 published wholly or in part, and the number, ex- 

 cluding notes and popular republications, now ex- 

 ceeds 1,400. Tliis is an average of about 47 theses 

 and major papers a year. 



As of 1964, Cooperative Wildlife Research Units 

 had operated for 2 to 30 years in a total of 21 

 States. Men who obtained their graduate train- 

 ing, or a part of it, under unit supervision are 

 employed in every State and in virtually every 

 wildlife and consei-vation agency. It is believed 

 that these 4,300 biologists and administrators con- 

 stitute about half of the trained manpower in the 

 wildlife field. 



EXTRAMUR.4L DIVLSION-FINAINCED 

 RESE.4KCH 



In addition to investigational programs financed 

 on regularlj' appropriated funds, or on funds pro- 

 vided c<x)peratively by the States and diverse Fed- 

 eral agencies, the Division of Wildlife Research 

 contracts an appreciable amount of research with 

 qualified agencies, institutions, and laboratories. 

 The following is a list of all such contracts in ex- 

 cess of $1,000 active in calendar year 1964. 



EXTRAMUR.\L DIVISION-FINANCED RESEARCH 

 (Research contracts or agreements of less than $1,000 are eicluded from this tabulation] 



Contractor and location 



Arizona: University of Arizona, Tucson 



California: Stoner Laboratories, Campbell. 



Connecticut: Peter Ames, Peabody Musp': 

 of Natural History, New Haven. 



Florida: Florida State Board of Health, V, 

 Beach. 



Georgia: University of Georgia, Athens 



Study or service 



Movements of the mourning dove in Arizona 



Studies of biological materials to determine quantitative 



residues of pesticides. 

 T>TT '>sprey studies 



. (wildlifeuseofsalt marsh on east coast of Florida.. 



Study to determine the status of white-tailed deer as a rp5- 



ervoir of cattle fever ticks. 

 Study for determining significance of white-tailed d 



silent reservoir of anaplasmosis. 

 Surveys and research program to determine signiticancc of 



helminth parasites for wild, pen-raised, and imported 



game birds. 



Study to determine the epidemiology of tularemia 



Wildlife rabies surveillance investigation 



White-tailed deer parasite research - 



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