The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-10-10

will have some teeth in it. Those teeth will be pointed toward ultim- ately making the Alaska fisheries operations a complete Alaska oper- ation
 In the years ahead you'll probably see more and more operations car ried on by persons who establish residence in the Territory and there by get license to operate Thereu be less Outside interests skimming off Che cream" of the fisheries from headquarters somewhere in the States and more actual Alaska oper- ations. You'll see in the course of a few years a complete elimination Of Outside labor in the fisheries and the labor personnel made up of AL aska residents. Those Alaska opera tors and fishermen are going to con sider perpetuation of the fisheries from the standpoint of maintaining il as their very means of livelihood. They are going to see that the crop is harvested but that there is aI- ways seed for the crop next year. For those who cant see that view point there will be neat little para graphs in the new Alaska fisheries law which will provide for revokine 1 their licenses, for seizing their gear and other little ineonYenienees which will just about eliminate them in the fishing industry.
 This is 10-year program. For those who think it a little visionary. but who expect to be around 10 years from now, Periseoper suggests | clipping this little item and filing it away for reference about that time. Our reason for this suggestion is based on past performance. Back about six or seven years ago. a group of visionary men drew up tbe International Bird Treaty, the pro gram to bring back rapidly vanish ing waterfowl Actually they doubt ed themselves if it could be put over. l However dubious, they tossed it on the desk of Dr. Ira Gabrielson, then chief of the Biological Survey. and said something like this: "Go to it Gabe, and uttered little prayers as they eXited. The big, genial man who had come up to the top of the old Biological Survey from way out in the wilds of Oregon went to work. It was another job to do, tough one true, but there had been a lot of other tough ones in the department ever since Teddy Roosevelt, he of the big stick, had shot the first serum of potency in the Biological Survey, and they had been done. The Survey over the years had established reputation for getting things done and supported Whole-heartedIy by the wildlife lovers of America, res- toration of wildlife had become a reality
 With 20 years of Survey work un- der bis belt in every state in the
 Union Che marked his 26th year with the service on October 1, 194D 'Gabe," as his friends know him, | didn't falter. Today, with complete l cooperation from the equator to the Arctic, the waterfowl restoration job has been done. The duck, goose and other waterfowl population has been 1 brought back to more than double what it was in 1885 and the pro gram is going ahead under healthy momentum. The man who headed up that job is the same chap who now , heads up the Alaska fisheries and has been assigned the task of build ing a genuine Alaska fisheries. Our guess is that the job will be done. There's lot of "oomph" in that big boy from Oregon and the staff he has gathered around him to help do the job.
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 Gen. Robert Buchner of the Alas ka Defense Command has himself a resident Alaska hunting license but