98 PROBLEMS IN WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



The Survey uses picked men as salaried hunters working 

 under the supervision of a state leader who, in turn, is re- 

 sponsible to one of the eight regional directors, each one 

 having direction of the work in several states. When first 

 established an attempt was made to keep predatory animal 

 separate from rodent control work with separate leaders in 

 each locality. In more recent years the policy has been 

 adopted of combining the work in a state under a single 

 individual with the title of dual leader. The new system 

 has not been put into effect throughout the organization but 

 it is in operation today in the majority of the states. 



It is the duty of the regional directors to keep in touch 

 with the leaders in each state, aiding them with advice and 

 in general supervising their work to see that instructions 

 from headquarters are properly obeyed. They also act as 

 contact agents between the Survey and those agencies which 

 are cooperating with it in providing funds for control work. 



The hunters and rodent-control leaders, the state leaders, 

 and the regional directors themselves, are required to sub- 

 mit a brief weekly itinerary report showing their day-to-day 

 activities. Quarterly and annual reports in greater detail are 

 made by the regional directors and state leaders, not upon 

 form blanks but in running narrative style. These reports, 33 

 together with the visits of the Division Chief, constitute the 

 major check upon the field activities. The policies of the 

 Division have been formulated by a series of general con- 

 ferences with the field staff, the last of which was held at 

 Denver in April 1931 and by a conference of the regional 

 directors, the last of which was held in Washington in 

 August 1934. 



Two separate projects not under the general field organ- 

 ization are the Control Methods Research Laboratory located 

 at the Custom House, Denver, and the Bait Processing Plant 



33 Special reports on a number of subjects required in addition. 



