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istrative staff needed assistance in approaching an answer to tliis 
problem. Research workers were called upon. Had these workers 
taken the viewpoint that an answer as to whether or not artificial 
restocking was successful could be obtained only after a com- 
plete, long-time life-history study of the birds had been made, 
we still would be expending several thousands of dollars each 
year to no avail. The research staff, through whom the Commis- 
sion approached this problem, realized that they could produce 
for the Commission an answer to this particular phase of wild- 
life management, even though it left unanswered many questions 
with regard to chukar partridge. The result was that, after out- 
lining the proper approach, w^hich only the scientist could do, it 
did not take long to conclude that the chukar partridge could 
not maintain itself in our environment and that there was slight 
justification for the expenditure of the funds necessary to keep 
the species in existence in this State. 
Many of the problems the administrator faces are of this 
nature^ and it is the writer's firm belief that there need be no 
relaxation In standards of scientific work in order to lift out of 
the mass of possibilities and ramifications for investigative en- 
deavor these specialized problems for more immediate solution. 
As still another element from the administrative standpoint 
there is the fact that the administrator faces a problem of edu- 
cating public steeped in long-accepted ideas and of bringing that 
public to accept new^ ideas and new truths that result from re- 
search work. The administrator, therefore, has a job n(jt only 
of determining the answer, but of selling that answer to the 
public which has to use it. The administrator cannot make this 
sort of a sale unless he can display the product; he cannot dis- 
play the product of research unless the research w^orker himself 
delivers that product in such form that its merits can be under- 
stood and appreciated by the uninitiated. I realize that to many 
highly trained scientists this may sound unprofessional or even 
vulgar, but nevertheless, it is a fact that must be faced if the 
scientist wnshes so-called practical activity and practical adnu'n- 
istrative programs to be based on scientific fundamentals. 
These conditions have arisen naturally because of lack of 
training in fundamentals on the part of the public and the admin- 
istrator; the lack of ability to analyze and evaluate scientific in- 
vestigation and observation. The problem has been to employ 
administrators who have this sort of background, and to get 
i^esults of scientific work translated into usable action programs. 
