The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-05-22
Fish And Wildlife
Activities Hilight
Bdsin Activities

Wildlife service in the Missouri
Basin project highlighted the
April progress report prepared
by the Missouri Basin reports
staff, under the direction of
Mills E. Burger, chief, and re-
ceived recently by Kenneth F.
Vernon, director of Region 6,
Bureau of Reclamation.
Reporting an advance for
the month of April of lit per
cent, the Fish and Wildlife
service led the six other De-
partment of Interior agencies
participating in the baSin-Wide
program in work performed
curing April on the 1947 fiscal
year program.
The seven Interior agencies
ta king pare in the comprehen-
sive development program adj
vanced work scheduled for the
year to 500 per cent of COM
pletion by the end of April. At
the end of March, work was
reported at 43 per cent OF
completion.
Bureau of Mines and Nation
al Park service reported their
fiscal year program as 80 and
81 per cent completed at the
end of the month. The Fish
and Wildlife services lit per
cent advance during April
brought its total work per-
formed from July /, 1916 to
April 80, 1947 to 10 per cent
OF completion. Bureau of Land
Management also had COM
pleted 10 per cent of its pro-
gram by the end of the month.
The percentage of the 1947
program completed by other
agencies by the end of April
were: Geological survey, Sc per
cent; Bureau of Reclamation,
48.4 per cent, and Office of
Indian Affairs, "A per cent.
The Smithsonian Institution,
cooperating in the development
program, reported its 1947 pro-
gram as SO per cent complete
on April 80.
Warm temperatures during
the month allowed resumption
of field activities for the
agencies. The Fish and Wild
life service reported that field
Investigations were initiated or
continued on 10 Bureau Of
Reclamation units and three
Army engineers projects in the
Missouri river drainage basin.
Investigations were continued
by the Fish and Wildlife SER
vice on AngoStura unit prepar-
atory to formulating a vegeta-
tion-planting program, engin-
eering features and plan OF op-
Grafton of Boysen unit were re-
examined, reports were pre-
pared or evaluated on a num-
Der of units in the compre-
hensive development program
and the Fish and Wildlife SER
vice and Office of Indian Al
fairs made a joint aerial re-
connaissance of Hardin unit.
Construction activities of the
Bureau of Reclamation were
accelerated during the month
by warm weather. Stripping
continued at Enders dam in
Nebraska, $4,000 cubic yards of
rock were removed from the
spillway section and cutoff
drifts were extended on Ango-
I stura dam in South Dakota,
165 900 cubic yards of material
was evacuated at BoySen unit
in Wyoming as work on the
relocation of Highway No. 20
was resumed, and at Kortes
dam in Wyoming work contin-
ued on scaling Of loose rock on
canyon walls, excavation of the
dam and power house areas
and tunneling operations.
Geological Suvey and Office
of Indian Affairs resumed field
activities and the latter organ
ization continued with econo-
mic and land surveys of Indian
lands on which Bureau of Re-
clamation units are to be To-
Gated.
Bureau of Land Management
began extensive cadastral sur
veys in the basin and National
Park service sent out two field
parties to carry on work in
connection with the Missouri
Basin poject
The Smithsonian Institution
instigated preliminary appraisal
of the archaeological and pal
genealogical resources on all
reservoir sites on the Lower
Platte, Smoky Hill and Repub-
plican river sub-basins.