FOREWORD 
Each year a Status Report of Waterfowl is prepared which 
summarizes the results of three surveys and presents a forecast of 
anticipated change in the relative size of the fall flight of ducks, 
geese, brant and coot in each of the waterfowl flyways in the United 
States. 
One of the surveys summarized in the above report is a - 
survey of waterfowl hunters carried out immediately following the 
waterfowl season to measure the size of the kill and the effect of 
hunting regulations on hunter activity and kill. 
A fire in the I.B.M. processing room in late June 1959 
destroyed all of the original waterfowl hunters survey records from 
“the states of Arizona and Nevada and part of the records for 
California, Idaho, Oregon and Utah before tabulations had been pre- 
pared from them for the Hunter Kill of Migratory Waterfowl in the 
Pacific Flyway During the 1958-59 Waterfowl Hunting Season. The 
process of salvaging records and completing the report for this Flyway 
was not accomplished by printing deadline for Special Scientific - 
Report -~ Wildlife No. 45, The purpose of this report is to complete 
the 1959 Status Report of Waterfowl. 
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