!4 PROBLEMS IN WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



It is with the aim of considering such problems that the 

 present study in governmental problems growing out of wild 

 life conservation is undertaken. The questions raised are 

 governmental problems and, as such, ripe for the considera- 

 tion of students of government as well as for the profes- 

 sional biologist. From this point of view, the writer feels 

 he needs offer no apologies for invading a field which at 

 first glance appears to belong exclusively to the natural 

 sciences. 



Limitations of space makes it necessary to exercise a 

 measure of choice in deciding which of many governmental 

 problems to discuss. Four major ones were finally chosen 

 as especially important, (i) federal state relations, (2) legal 

 authority of the state, (3) administrative structure, and 

 (4) law enforcement. To these four was added a fifth, 

 the problem of the place of wild life in the future national 

 economy, not because it was more closely related to the rest 

 of the study than other problems which might have been 

 chosen, but because it has attracted so much attention within 

 the last few months as a part of the broader movement for 

 land planning. 



Through all of these questions, however, there runs a 

 major line of consideration, forging as it does the link that 

 binds together into a related whole what otherwise might 

 seem a series of unconnected essays. This major problem 

 is as follows: granted that in the future the government 

 will control the taking of wild animals to an increasing 

 degree, what are the most efficient methods for making its 

 intervention effective within the limits of our constitutional 

 system ? 



