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Appendix G 
| The following instructions were given sector personnel at the start of 
the survey: 
1960 Instructions for Sector Personnel 
1. Begin contacting farmers in sector in early summer and not later 
than August. A definite selling job should be tried on any farmer who does 
not wish to cooperate, to try to convince him of the need of our obtaining 
accurate kill information to properly manage the goose flock and perpetuate 
hunting. <A large part of the success of this survey will depend on the sak s- 
manship and ability of each sector man to sell the program to the farmers in 
his sector. 
2. Take forms out to the farmers making up samples one to two weeks 
before the season opens, and re-establish relations with the cooperator. 
3. Furnish a list of names of all farmers who will be cooperating prior 
to the opening of the season, showing zone number, location, etc. 
4. Arrange for the farmers to keep the forms somewhere so they can be 
picked up even if the farmer is away when the farm is visited. This will cut 
down on the number of repeat visits required. 
5. Pick up the forms once a week regularly, preferably on Monday. 
Leave a new form in place of the old. 
6. Turn the forms in promptly to the Refuge Clerk so he can record data. 
A check-off chart will be prepared before the seasons open, with one 
form. as a master control in the refuge office, and one for use of the sector 
man. This chart will provide for checking off reports when collected, and 
will enable the Clerk and the sector man to keep a running inventory of 
reports collected and still to be collected. Thus, in event any sector man 
is unable for any reason to cover his sector in a given week, it will be 
possible for someone else to make the route and pick up the reports not in. 
7. Starting on opening day, and every 4th day thereafter, make early 
morning observations somewhere in sector assigned. Observations are to include: 
a. Number of geese observed killed. 
b. Number of geese crippled (birds knocked down and not 
retrieved, or birds showing any evidence of being hit). 
This is essential to arrive at an average crippling loss 
figure. 
c. Show date, location, and time of observation. 
d. Show number of blinds under observation, with notes on 
the success from each blind. 
e. Indicate number of hunters under observation. 
f. Note anything observed regarding goose movements in 
the area. 
g. Observations to be made from opening hour until 9:30 a.m. 
on each morning that surveys are made. 
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