United States Department of Agriculture 
|.S. Bureau of Biological Survey 
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Wildlife Research and Menagement Leaflet BS-119 
Washington, D. OC. September 1938 
THE COORDINATION OF MOSQUITO CONTROL 
WITH WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 1/ 
By Clarence Cottam, Senior Biologist, in Cherge Section of Food 
Habits, Division of Wildlife Research 
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In order thet the subject of this peper may not convey the errone-~ 
ous impression that the Biological Survey is etteining some degree of pro~ 
ficiency in mosquito cortrol, it should be steted at the outset that nos-— 
Quito control is not a function of this Buresu, The Survey is charged with 
certein duties pertaining to the study, restorstion, conservation, and 
Management of the Nation's resources in wildlife. From e Federal aspect, 
mosquito control, however, rather than being e function of this Bureeu, 
lies within the province of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant querentine 
and the Malaria Control Division of the Public Heelth Service. There is xo 
desire on the part of those connected with the Survey to usurp a function 
that has wisely been delegated to others wno may rightly claim expertness in 
tneat field. The members of the Survey, however, do have some knovledge of 
birds end other animals and of the conditions thet affect wildlife and its 
habitat. Since its esteblishnent nore than 50 years ago, the Bureau has 
_been studying intensively cnd continuously the food habits and environnentel 
needs of many wildlife forms and the factors affecting the various species. A 
vast fund of information on the environnental requirements and preferences 
of wildlife has thus been collected by biologists through the years, 
The results of these studies clearly reveel that certain practices 
enployed in mosquito control are frequently detrinental to desirable spe- 
cies of wildlife, and that their continuance at the present rete, without 
modification or correction, constitutes a menace to one of our most in- 
portant heritages - the Nation's great naturel resource in wildlife, To 
underestinate the practical and the aesthetic velue of wildlife in the 
further development and occupency of our idle lands would be © grave nis~ 
teke, The nationol resource in wildlife must be maintained. 
Attenpts to fulfill our obligation in perpetuating the Natio 
Sirable forms of wildlife sometimes bring the Biological Survey into con- 
et at ee ae ee ee ee et 
Li Presented before the twenty-fifth annual neeting of the New 
z's 1938, 
Dovartment of A Cuiture 
Washington, B. C. 
