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The Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research 

 Unit was established at Montana State Uni- 

 versity on February 8, 1958. It is operated 

 through a coordinating committee with repre- 

 sentatives from the State Fish and Game De- 

 partment, State University and U. S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service. 



Objectives, as established, are: 



1. To provide technical and professional 

 training on various levels in wildlife 

 management, teaching, research, demon- 

 stration and administration. 



2. To investigate and correlate the produc- 

 tion, utilization, management and resto- 

 ration of desirable populations of wild- 

 life compatible with good land use. 



3. To demonstrate research findings 

 through extension and practical manage- 

 ment of game and fur-bearing animals 

 and of other desirable species of wild- 

 life, and encourage wildlife restoration 

 through programs with schools, youth 

 clubs and adult groups. 



4. To make available to land-owners and 

 operators, sportsmen, conservation offi- 

 cials, extension workers, teachers and 

 others, the facts, methods and new find- 

 ings discovered through research, and 

 through literature suited to local and 

 state conditions. 



5. To disseminate research findings through 

 the publications of reports, bulletins, 

 circulars, and journal and magazine ar- 

 ticles. These to include scientific, semi- 

 popular and popular materials at all 

 levels. 



Rescan-li Projects' 1 



1. Mule Deer Population and 

 Winter Range Studies in 

 Western Montana 



2. Seasonal Condition of 



Mule Dei I 



3. Mule Deer Winter Forage 



Relations Study .Continuing 



4. Aging of Fisher and Analysis 



of Reproductive Systems Continuing 



5. Population Study of Canada 



Geese in the Flathead Valley ...Continuing 



6. Experiments with the Plastic 

 Jesse-Knot Marker Completed 



7. An Ecological and Psysiological 



Study of the Pine Marten Completed 



8. Motion Pictures of Unit 



Activities Continuing 



9. A Physiological and Anatomical 



Study of Bighorn Sheep Continuing 



10. A Study of Lungworm Infection 



in Bighorn Sheep Completed 



11. Quantitative Aspects of Raptor 

 Predation Continuing 



12. Big Game Harvest Analysis New 



13. Study of Alpine Ecology in the 

 Northern Rocky Mountains Continuing 



14. Bighorn Sheep Population Study New 



15. An Ecological Study of the 



Grizzly Bear New 



16. Ecology of the Feeding Behavior 

 of Black Bear in Northwestern 



Montana 



.ComplHril 

 Continuing 



New 



17. Effect of Magpie Control on Magpie 



Population and Reproduction New 



18. Summer Range Ecology of 

 Rattlesnake Crook Mule Deer 



in the Spruce-Fir Zone Completed 



19. A Studj of Moose in the 



Rock Crook Drainage Completed 



Completed projects have been reported on in 

 journals or theses, and in addition, segments 

 of some continuing projects have been pub 

 lished. 



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