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the fact that he was a good political worker, or that he had fished 
or hunted all of his life. There was a minimum of consideration 
of his ability to appreciate, analyze, and view wildlife manage- 
ment on the basis of fundamental values and requirements. 
Until the present generation there has been an abundance of 
natural resources. This has generated in the public mind an Indif- 
ference toward any necessity for management, control of use or 
looking ahead to determine future and sustained production. 
A third element from the administrative standpoint is the 
fact that, in accordance with human nature, conclusions are 
reached and management practices established on the basis of 
untrained observation and deduction. The most common answer 
arrived at has been that, if the supply of wildlife is going down, 
the remedy lies in putting more of it into the field. This in turn 
has given rise to the conception of the game farm and the fish 
hatchery as the solution to restoration and greater abundance. 
Another element in the problem of integrating scientific ef- 
fort with administration in the wildlife field lies in the source of 
support for wildlife conservation departments. Nearly all fish 
and game wildlife conservation departments derive their support 
almost entirely from the sale of hunting, fishing and other wild- 
life use permits. ■ Verj^ few are supported to any degree from 
general taxation. This has naturally resulted in a great deal ot 
intolerance on the part of the man who buys the hunting ^" 
fishing permit toward long-time, fact-finding effort. This, O" 
gether with the fact that so much research and scientific effoit 
up to the present has resuUed in abstract data and has stoppe 
short of the final mark, has generated lack of appreciation, doubt, 
and, in many cases, even ridicule of expenditures for any s 
effort. It has, therefore, been difficult for an administrator to 
justify expenditures of money for scientific and research w 
Again, the problem confronting the administrator is^ " 
acute and immediately imperative. The time element is i V 
tant. It frequently is not possible, for example, to await t e 
development and conclusion of a complete life history stu y 
a species to determine whether or not the administration is J ^^ 
fied in expending large sums of money each year m tryi g 
establish or maintain that species. An example of this in 
own State is the chukar partridge. A considerable sum of ni_^"^^ 
was being spent each year in putting into the field aa 
stocks of this bird. The Commission was faced with a ^^^^"^^ 
nation of the justification for continuing this expenditure on _^^ 
basis of survival and resuks. The Commission and the a 
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