The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-28

Editors Note: The following
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Ten million hunting sportsmen buy licenses in Continental
United States yearly Fish and Wild Life Service of u S.
Interior Department estimates wild fowl population at
hundred twenty million This five times larger than when
Fish and Wild Life Service was created years ago is but
small percentage of what should be- Suppose all licensed
hunters went out the day and each had bag limit
of 10 birds with two more killed but not found There would
be left not wild duck brant goose in the country.
Eastern Montana and the Dakotas furnish the
tura and best Matching ground for migratory water fowl in
entire land Fish and Wild Life Service Here from
duck stamp sales mas already been spent several million dol
lars for sancuares protected breeding ground and
creation of conditions to abundant food
Large storage reservoirs proposed for Medicine
Montana James River Valley in North Dakota and probably
two three other sites will and flood wild life fac
tiles there established In this will be unavoid
able In all the damage be repaired Dozens fl
nay perhaps hundreds of reservoirs thousands of miles
OF canal ne seepage and return flow from millions OF irrigated
and wide spread raising of underground water tables
with the spring thus started will opportunity develop
hundreds of new water fowl habitats.
M.V.A theory contemplates maximum development of
every unapproprated natural point ncon
ssan with equal development of other This
includes migratory water fowls Game refugees destroyed
injured will not only be replaced but dozens of other suitable
spots will also be developed and utilized License buying
sportsmen going be with duck population
of 10 IL per hunter when 10 20 times that number
so we'll be provided After ALL the boys who make wild
life ante entitled to something for their kick-n
Of great increase in wild water fowls going
to come automatically It has to be carefully planned and
worked Neither much of liable if Missouri
development be committed to Army Engineers u S.
Reclamation Bureau These agencies are NOT primarily CON
cened with wild life propagation and protection This form
of culture highly scientific and technical business itself
Experts from Fish and Wild Life Service similarly
scientists the who best pan layout and advise
Then their work has to be harmonzed and coordnated with
all the other kinds of planning that must into this large
and complicated development
Let's take concrete unit of the whole project
example of how details should be worked OUT dam and
reservoir for flood control tract of land to be irrigated
for instance. Army Engineers Reclamation may
design and lay out the basic project Fish and wild life propa
cation connection Herewith problem for Fish Wild
Life Service highway changes for Bureau of Public Roads,
Public Health Service mosquito control
ona State Park Service and down the line for
each type of problem involved On top of ALL the affected
public must be given complete picture of what
plated and then permitted to have its say.
All this will bring differences of opinion, conflicts in
tailed plans and other controversial matters that
and harmonized the most effective whole
constructionand operation this unit be
in with all other units To attempt list all the kinds
problems and all the mineral plant animal
human that may various times have part the picture
is like writing a dictionary.
Each entitled proper consideration have plans
worked and presented by experts ne
its advantages and value approved by the public
short to have it's day in court This be done only by
authority type of overhead control This process
MVA proponents by unity of development
benefit from everything and for eveybodyincudng badly
depleted duck population.
rhe CLIO and have new birth of freedom and that