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nor have the penalties been applied. It would not 

 be historically correct to say that nothing has been 

 accomplished, bnt the achievement is pitifully dis- 

 proportioned to the necessities of the existing situ- 

 ation. 



Undoubtedly :Michigan has lacked a constructive 

 conservation policy and plan. The various activities 

 under this head that the legislature has from time 

 to time sought to create have l)een disorganized and 

 unrelated. One boardjms dealt with fish propaga- 

 tion, another with fish protection. The same agency 

 was charged with game and with forest protection, 

 although in the opinion of experts the work calls for 

 differentiation between 'these two functions. The 

 work assigned to the immigration commissioner was 

 neglected. There was no organized cooperation be- 

 tween the Michigan Agricultural College, the Uni- 

 versity of ]\Iichigan and the IMichigan College of 

 Mines, the State Geological Survey in the prosecu- 

 tion of the State soil survey instituted in 1915 by 

 the Agricultural College and resumed in 1920. There 

 are drainage projects transcending the boundaries 

 and resources of local drainage districts which might 

 better be carried out by a State drainage department, 

 but there is no such department. There is no com- 

 plete survey of the inland waters of the State and 

 their fish and other resources. Inadequate provision 

 has been made for re-stocking the waters of the 

 State with fish. There has been no mobilization of 

 the abundant intelligences in undertaking a compre- 

 hensive solution of these problems. 



