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work of the research unit during the past five years, the Federal 
Aid to WildUfe project effort has developed to the point where 
the management plans for various species of wildlife are nearly 
completed. This will form a foundation for a constructive pro- 
gram of wildlife restoration for the State. 
It is not possible to give a verj' complete picture of the full 
implication and scope of the Commission's investigative and re- 
search program in the space of this paper, but the foregoing 
brief outline will give some idea of the importance that the Con- 
servation Commission attaches to fundamental research and to 
the necessity for developing the application of the information 
developed by such research. 
What is the Picture for the Future, and Especially 
During War Time ? 
There is much comfort in the fact that, in spite of the pres- 
sure of war emergency most agencies are conducting wildlife 
conservation affairs on the basis of sound principles of produc- 
tion and management: 
1. Sustained harvest, even for war purposes can be main- 
tained only by maintaining breeding stocks. 
2. Harvest can be increased only by utilization of surpluses 
where such exist or by increasing breeding stocks. 
3. Not even war demands can be met if in a single year the 
foundation stocks are eliminated. 
Administrative work more and more, and especially in war 
time, must be based on fundamental research. 
The pressure of war emergency will require the fullest, most 
mtense, and most cooperative type of endeavor possible on the 
part of science, if the wildlife resource is to be preserved. 
Both during the war period and in the future, more and 
niore trained research and scientific men will find their way into 
administrative positions. The scientific field could well encourage 
young workers who exhibit administrative ability along with 
the.r scientific ability, with the idea that scientists can be good 
administrators and that good administrators can arrive by the 
way of scientific training. 
The administrator needs men who not only are thoroughly 
familiar with biological principles, but who can analyze a prob- 
em, and who can learn to steer a path through a mass of ex- 
tremely interesting and valuable ramifications and keep his fingers 
on the key problem. He must be able to go at that problem, 
