Alabatrosses on Midway Island constitute a major hazard to military and commercial aircraft using this Pacific 

 base. Birds, nesting adjacent to the runways, may strike both ascending and descending |)lanes, at times with loss 

 of life and craft. Grading and hard-surfacing of land parallel to the runways, recommended by Bureau biologists, 

 has reduced the bird hazard appreciably. (Photo by Karl W. Kenyon) 



between its avian and mammalian toxicity. These 

 developments, still to be perfected, are neverthe- 

 less definite steps toward the control of small 

 mammals, mostly mice, in the interest of forest 

 reestablishment. 



SOME PUBLICATIONS — RELEASED AND 

 NEAR RELEASE 



Mention is made here of major publications 

 by Branch personnel in 1962. Several books or 

 bulletins in advanced stages of preparation are 

 included. A complete list of publications by 

 the central-office and field staffs is given in 

 appendix E. 



The Jownud of Forestry^ January 1962, was 

 devoted primarily to forest-wildlife relations, in- 

 cluding values, animal damage, depredations con- 

 trol, and needed research. An editorial by Lans- 

 ing A. Parker, Assistant Director of the Bureau 

 of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, and Arthur B. 



Meyer, Editor of the Journal of Forestry, intro- 

 duced this series of 19 articles, 6 of which were 

 authored or coauthored by employees of the 

 Bureau. Mr. Parker is Associate Editor for For- 

 est-Wildlife Management of the Journal of For- 

 estry staff. 



Albatrosses were the subject of two important 

 papers by Dale W. Rice and Karl W. Kenyon. 

 North Pacific albatrosses, in The Auk (79: 365- 

 386), and Laysan and black-footed albatrosses, 

 also in The Auk (79 : 517-567) are highly inform- 

 ative evaluations of these populations. 



The Denver Wildlife Research Center con- 

 tributed significantly to the proceedings of the 

 Vertebrate Pest Control Conference, Sacramento, 

 Calif., last February. D. Glen Crabtree wrote 

 Review- of Current V ertebrate Pesticides (pp. 327- 

 362) ; Weldon B. Robinson prepared Methods of 

 Controlling Coyotes, Bobcats, and Foxes (pp. 32- 

 56) ; and Adolph Zajanc authored Methods of 

 Controlling Starlings and Blackbirds (pj). 190- 

 212). 



