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Many Uhil oi^U^.i^a ..cv^ .^juiiu ,i ^.>.^e:isary to set up base camps on their summer study areas. In this instance 

 Bill Rutherford, of the Colorado Unit, is working out of such a camp on the Williams Fork, North Park, 

 Colorado. (Photo by Lee E. Yeager, Colorado Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit.) 



New laboratory and research facilities 



To improve the quality and output of 

 research, every effort is being made to 

 recruit topnotch personnel and to provide 

 adequate facilities. Increased attention to 

 pesticide-wildlife relations, control meth- 

 ods, and other problems requiring labora- 

 tory facilities has resulted in acquiring 

 modern laboratory and other equipnnent. 

 Excellent progress was nnade in 1961 on 

 the construction of a 25,000-square-£oot 

 biochemical-pathology laboratory at the 

 Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Pens 

 for research on pesticides and control 



methods were constructed at the Denver 

 Wildlife Research Center and its Olympia, 

 Washington, substation. 



Planning nnoney was included in the 

 budget for the fiscal year 1962 to locate 

 a site and prepare plans for a wildlife 

 research center in the Northern Great 

 Plains Area, where greatly expanded re- 

 search on waterfowl production problems is 

 needed. In restoring the bird banding files 

 which were damaged by fire in June 1959, 

 a modern automatic data processing system 

 has been substituted for the time-consuming 

 manaal procedure previously used. With the 



