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upon enforcing agencies. These problems can be met by 

 education, by application of good personnel management 

 principles, and by publicity. It is fairly obvious that greater 

 effort should be made by enforcing agencies, both Federal 

 and State, to educate public opinion to the necessity of strict 

 law enforcement as a corollary to conservation. At the 

 same time publicity of the whole enforcement procedure 

 would do much to neutralize political pressure and to hold 

 officials charged with enforcement to high standards. 



Conclusion: If one were to sum up in a single phrase 

 the greatest problem of conservation in the future, it would 

 be how to protect the rights of the many against the greed 

 of the few. The answer undoubtedly lies in thinking and 

 acting. We are sometimes tempted, especially in a mood 

 of impatience, to contrast thought and action, and to say 

 what we want is less thinking and more activity. That is 

 a mistake. Much action goes to waste because it has no 

 thought behind it. Many a movement, entered into with 

 zeal and good-will, is pre-doomed to failure because it has 

 no background of correct theory. Thought without action 

 is nugatory, but action without thought is a waste of energy. 

 Taken together, first thought, then action, will bring about 

 a sound solution of the numerous wild life problems that 

 face the nation today. 



