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Alas, the Eskimo Curlew. Most extreme of the Neo-Malthusian scare books is Vogt's Road to Survival. Vogt is an ornithologist, once editor of Bird Lore, who (to quote the book's jacket) "became interested in the relationship of man to his environment through his studies of...
This is not true everywhere, say the soil men, and it need not be true anywhere. And the situation is not as bad as Vogt & Co. say it is. Soil mining and erosion are still causing inestimable damage, but not so much as before. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service believes...
When Resting arrived at Sports Afield, $50 was a high price for contributors, and the magazine looked it. Ted Resting raised the rates to as much as $500 for stories and $400 for illustrations. He replaced the shopworn "Me and Joe went fishing" type of story with pieces by such...
For that future, he promised a program not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. It included more irrigation and flood control projects, expanded rural electrification and soil conservation, protection and development of forests, oil reserves, mineral resources. To build the West's power supply he promised new river...
¶ The New York State Conservation Department fined two Manhattan milliners $50 apiece for displaying a 59-year-old hat adorned with bird of paradise feathers. They were cited under a law which prohibits commercial display of the plumage of certain wild birds.