Eugene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
(Tape #3) 
January 1970 
I think this pretty much takes care of your answers, Roger, if you have any 
more, shoot them back. I'm sorry about the delay in getting this to you but this 
thing came right of the midst of rather feverish preparations for a big meeting 
here on the rare and endangered wildlife. We had the Assistant Deputy Secretary 
of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife Marine Resources here; we also had Director 
Gottschalk (?) and then our Regional Director and what with making all the 
preparations for the meeting, preparing itineries, and making arrangements for 
field trips for them to the neighbor islands during December, and some of them 
stayed clear on up until Christmastime, so as a result, everything else had to 
be put on the back shelf and this really put us in the hole. I was hoping to 
take some vacation time and as it stands, it looks as if I'm going to lose close 
to 80 hours of vacation leave which comes to just about ten working days. Then 
in a couple of days I have to shove off for Portland for about a week for a 
number of things and it looks as if I might just be relieved of a number of my 
other duties here to concentrate on the rare and endangered program here in Hawaii. 
This then means that the rest of the load will depend on poor Dave Olsen's shoulders. 
We still didn't get our wilderness report out and that thing is beginning to be 
a little on the overdue side, and this is something we just have to get out. 
So with this then, Roger, I'mm going to close and shoot this thing off in 
the mail tomorrow. It's getting quite late, it's almost past midnight and I'm going 
to hit the sack. So, in Hawaiian, I'd like to thank you for your Christmas card 
and may we wish all of you back there (can’t spell the Hawaiian-AB) a Happy New Year! 
