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Pinkham Notch has 41 inches and a light crust and Plymouth, three inches of corn over a 20 inch base. Around North Conway there is 19 inches and a breakable crust...
...Only 12% suggested death as a way out. Most of these callously told Lonely Man to shoot himself or jump off North Hill viaduct (favorite local suicide spot...
When 2,000 sportsmen, scientists and sentimentalists, organized by Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, met in Washington three years ago for the first North American Wildlife Conference, it seemed pure fantasy to hope that they would agree on a common program. For years animal-lovers and hunters had fought each other far more vigorously than they fought for conservation of the nation's wildlife resources. Meanwhile lakes dried up, marshes were drained, forests cut over, rivers polluted, birds, beasts and fish killed off by the million...
...conservation movement. Since then the Pittman-Robertson Act has set aside the 10% excise tax on sporting arms & ammunition for wildlife propagation and research. Hunters and animal-lovers, unified at last, have pushed through many a national and State fish-&-game law. Last week, when the fourth annual North American Wildlife Conference opened in Detroit, the Federation was going strong...
...National Wildlife Federation, now a powerful propaganda agency which claims to represent some 20,000,000 conservationists, met last week in conjunction with the North American Conference, President "Ding" Darling as usual blazed away with both barrels at U. S. bureaus and agencies, called some of them outright "enemies of conservation." Of the Bureau of Fisheries: "The exhaustion of fish resources has no parallel." Of the CCC: "The opportunity for tremendous advancement was largely muffed." Of the Bureau of Public Lands: "... a past record of exploitation crimes which prohibit its claim to any part in national conservation." Of the average...