The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-05
COMMITTEE IS
 DELvINC DEEP
 IN CONDITIONS
Senate Wild Life Commit tee Gathers Much Data
 on Western Survey

The Senate's special committee on conservation of wild life re- sources has made the most of it's Alaska visitation to study those re- sources and methods used in their conservation, said Paul Redington, Chief of the United States Biologi- cal Survey, who accompanied the party through Southeast Alaska, Bristol Bay. the Pribilofs, Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak, Cook Inlet and Kenai Peninsula.
 The party, which included Sena- tors Walcott and Norbeck, mem bers of the Senate Committee; Congressman Garter, Oakland, Cali fornia, Bill WaIcott, son of the Senator, and Carl Shoemaker, Commissions Secretary, in addi- tion to MT. Redington, was deeply interested in the work of the Bu- reau of Fisheries and had an op- portunity to observe it in all its phases; to inspect the seal herds and watch the sealing operations of the same bureau; to visit bird rookeries, the bear country, moose and mountain sheep districts, all under the Alaska Game Commis- sion or the Biological Survey. he said.
 Makes Many Stops
 It made many stops on it's cruise through Southwest Alaska wat CTS Members of the party stood on weirs and watched employees of the Bureau of Fisheries count red salmon as they went through the gates on their way to the spawning beds.
 They stopped at Unimak Island to look for brown bears which they didn't see, but saw traces of them, and heard authentic stories of their size. They walked among some of the million seals sedul- ously guarded by the Federal goy- ernment on land and sea, and from which this year almost 50,000 were killed. They watched the sealing operations in progress, in spected the plant and modern and comfortable village on St. Paul Island, all built by the Government out of profits from the operations.
 Go Through Canneries
 Enroute back from the Pribi- lofs they visited at Unalaska, call ed at various cannery plants and watched the fish come in from the sea and pass through the various phases of processing until they were placed in cans.
 Four days were spent on Kodiak Island. They ascended various streams, including those in Uyak and Uganik Bays. Again they were disappointed in trying to run across some of the giant brownies, but they saw plenty of evidence of their presence. As no salmon were in the streams it was prob able they were in the berry patches back in the hills. They talked with many residents about the bear and it's status.
 From Kodiak the party went to Seward and from htere to Anchor age. At the latter place, they held an informal hearing at the request of various trappers. AL though the que tions presented were under the jurisdiction of the Alaska Game Commission, the Sen atorial group listened with interest to the statements made.
 The discussions centered around suggestions for longer trapping sea- sons, and the question of licensing trap lines.
 Make Plane Inspection
 Members of the party, including Senator Walcott and his son, Bill, Senator Norbeck, MT. Redington and Andy Simmons, new member of the Alaska Game Commission flew over a 250-mile area covering Renal Peninsula, Tustemena Lake and the mountain sheep country in a plane piloted by Noel Vein.
 On that trip they saw four
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