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Show FVVS Director Urges, 'Save Wildlife Lands; Same tilml Have Place To Live' National Wildlife Restoration Week was observed March 19-25 for the 13th consecutive year. The observation of wildlife wild-life week was originally established estab-lished by proclamation of President Pres-ident Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, and is sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, D. C. "While national and state departments de-partments concerned with game and fish are increasing1 the acreage acre-age of public lands devoted to wildlife, thousands of acres of private land are being rendered unproductive for upland game and waterfowl," Albert M. Day, Director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said last week. "We must make certain that any changes now made in land and water use take into consideration consi-deration the protection and production pro-duction of wildlife." Federal and state governments govern-ments cannot take all the responsibility re-sponsibility of supplying wildlife wild-life with living quarters in refuges, ref-uges, parks and other public lands, the Director stated. A program of cooperation with private landowners should be worked out aiding them in the improvement of their lands through good land practices which, at the same time, pay dividends in better soil management manage-ment as well as in game mammals, mam-mals, birds and fish. If individual land owners will construct farm ponds, plant food-producing shrubs in border -strips and hedgerows, and, most important, maintain existing habitat, hab-itat, a tremendous boost will be given to wildlife conservation, Day pointed out. One of the major ma-jor needs is for land managers to preserve potholes and marshes marsh-es for the breeding of waterfowl. water-fowl. Too many of these natural natur-al waterfowl breeding areas are being drained. |