Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handily stealing a march on 1937's automobile shows which will open at the end of October, Manhattan's first big all-trailer show appeared last week in Manhattan's ugly old brownstone 71st Regiment Armory. Twenty-four trailers, from a one-wheel duck hunter's camp to de luxe three-wheelers with bath, were parked on the Armory floor; outside, too big to trundle through the Armory's great doors, stood a shingle-roofed, imitation brick house on wheels. For seven days at the rate of about 100 an hour some 10,000 trailer...
...successive Sundays, every family in the U. S. had a wild duck for dinner, the wild duck would be as extinct as the passenger pigeon. In 1886 the same number of U. S. citizens could not have extinguished the wild duck population if they had eaten duck for a fortnight. But ducks had already begun to decrease and it was in that year the Bureau of Biological Survey was created to study U. S. wild life. As the Bureau grew bigger, the U. S. game bird population grew smaller...
...once the normal breeding grounds for the dm 5, which we are restoring to the natural state of marshland. We have already spent $20,000,000 on the program. Ultimately it will cost about $50,000,000.'' Goal: a minimum of 7,500,000 acres of Federal duck preserves...
Drainage of U. S. breeding lands had another effect. It left those regions completely vulnerable to floods and droughts. Flood and drought control measures now-being executed with CCC and WPA labor are, fortunately for sportsmen, ideal for restoring duck grounds, and vice versa. Principal engineering problem is to impound and regulate waters in rivers, lakes, marshes. Equally important is the planting of trees to help prevent erosion. Thus in the past three years 200 duck refuges have been created on previously useless land. Last year, for the first year in many, more ducks returned to the breeding grounds than...
Until last week the Bureau's 7,500,000-acre program was largely a hope in the heart of Mr. Gabrielson and fellow duck shooters. One sure source of income was from the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of 1934. In its first two years that brought about $1,000,000. Then, after much dallying. Congress unanimously passed the Pittman-Robertson Federal-Aid-to-Wildlife Bill to appropriate to the various States the 10% excise tax on sporting arms and ammunitions. It assured the program an annual $3,000,000 as a friendly President signed it at Hyde Park...