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TVITH UNCLE SAii'S NATURALISTS. 



RELEASE Friday. January 1. 1932 



FOR BROADCAST PURPOSES ONLY 



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ANITOL^CEMENT ; We now have our visit with Uncle Sam's Naturalists of the United 



States Department of Agriculture. Well, Mr. Wilds Man, let's start the year 



right and hear the ne\7S from Nature 



Happy New Year, everybody I 



"Then we get out in the ^rilds, ^/e sometimes like to forget the calendar. 



But on New Year's it is the "quaint old custom" to sort of look around 

 and get our hearings, and note the landmarks, as it were, to make sure where 

 we are, and how far we have come. 



Of course, we think of the hirds and animals of the wild as paying little 

 attention to our calendar dates, except possibly those we annoyance with ^^i-ins at 

 the beginning of hunting seasons. Taken by and large, their habits probably 

 haven't changed much since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. 



Yet I gather from \7hat Paul G. Redington, chief of the Bureau of Biologi- 

 cal Survey, says in his annual report, that wild life may have the same old 

 ways, but we are finding out new things about those ways right along. And 

 there is a lot we don't know yet. That's true as to the habits of individual 

 birds and animals, and also in regard to the v/ay one form of life affects 

 another. Tlie Bureau of Biological Survey has quite a job. In some cases it 

 is a matter of protecting wild life a^;ainst extermination by human beings, in 

 others it is a matter of protecting one kind of wild life against another, or 

 even protecting man or his possessions against wild animals. 



Nor is that as sir^le as it may sound. There is such a thing as too much 

 protection of one species at the expense of some other. During the past year, 

 I,Ir. Redington says, specialists of his Bureau found new or added evidence t]iat 

 on some of the more important deer, and aiitelope, and elk ranges in southeastern 

 Arizona, and the Kaibab deer ranges in northern Arizona the animals have in- 

 creased so much under protection that they are doing serious damage to the 

 forage already. They threaten to destroy the forest cover and the food-pro- 

 ducing capacity of those ranges. 



In order to protect adequately the better species of shrubs and yoimg 

 trees and other plaiits on which the aiiimals feed, the number of deer will have 



