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PROBLEMS IN WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



vice, and various other park units operating chiefly in the 

 District of Columbia. 62 



Later Reorganization Proposals: The Special Committee 

 on Conservation of Wild Life Resources of the Senate held 

 a series of hearings on reorganization of federal conserva- 

 tion activities during January 1933 prior to Mr. Roosevelt's 

 taking office on March 4 of that year. At that time leaders 

 of the wild life conservation movement were given an oppor- 

 tunity to present their views. 63 The consensus of opinion 

 seemed to be that some better method of coordinating fed- 

 eral conservation activities must be found but there was a 

 difference of opinion as to how that could be done. 



One scheme advanced proposed to take the major con- 

 servation bureaus, the Biological Survey, Fisheries, the 

 Forest, and National Park Services, out of the departmental 

 structure altogether and set them up under an independent 

 commission composed of the respective bureau chiefs respon- 

 sible to the President directly. 64 



Mr. Seth Gordon, representative of the American Game 

 Association, at the hearings of the Senate Committee on 

 Wild Life advocated, 65 



... an independent commission of about five men, the mem- 

 bers of which should be appointed for long terms and be ade- 

 quately compensated. Then the administration of our resources 



62 Executive Order No. 6166. Changes up to December 1953 can be 

 found in Schmeckebier, L. F., " Organization of the Executive Branch," 

 American Political Science Review, Dec., 1933; for later changes see 

 ibid., June and Dec., 1934. 



63 Hearings on Consolidation of Federal Conservation Activities, Special 

 Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, U. S, Senate, Jan. 

 12-13, 1933- 



64 Hearings, Special Committee, ibid., p. 10. 



65 Ibid., p. 10. An organization similar to this was recommended in 

 report of President Committee on Wild Life of Restoration, 1934. 



