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Meanwhile, if duck hunters can solve the gas and tire problem, this season promises a full game bag. An increase of U.S. waterfowl by one-third (to upwards of 100,000,000) led Secretary of the Interior Ickes to stretch the open season to 70 days (60 last year), the daily shooting period to sunrise to sunset (sunrise to 4 p.m. in previous years). The daily bag limit remains the same...
...Last refuge of the Egyptian leopard, and nesting gounds of great flocks of migrant and year-round waterfowl...
...trumpeter swan, largest migratory U. S. waterfowl, was believed extinct in 1907. But last fall the Department of Interior counted about 212 in Montana and Wyoming. Its chief enemy is the coyote. But last year a game warden found five dead trumpeters being toted by one hunter, who blithely explained: "It's open season for geese...
...Government press agents who grind out daily releases extolling her virtues, Interior is a dull mistress. Usually they have little more to report than the fact that Fish and Wildlife Service says "the outlook for migratory waterfowl looks, promising." Once in a blue moon, when they get the chance, they go off on a literary bender. Last week the moon was electric blue, and Interior fell off the wagon with a pamphlet called Piscatorial Serenades...
Galatz, Rumania sits at the top of the Danube delta surrounded by fens teeming with mosquitoes, waterfowl and half-wild swine, its docks crowded with fat tankers and chunky grain boats. And Galatz was the scene last week of one of the most remarkable conferences since war began. It was not particularly surprising that the European Danube Commission should meet, as it has periodically since it was set up by the Treaty of Paris in 1856, to discuss navigation maintenance on the lower part of the internationalized river. But what made last week's meeting remarkable was its atmosphere...