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The extent of the depletion of the Great Lakes fisheries

No abstract available.
Authors
John Van Oosten
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

The Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Act

No abstract available.
Authors
A.M. Day

The food of the lake trout (Cristivomer namaycush namaycush) and of the lawyer (Lota maculosa) of Lake Michigan

This paper reports on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the contents of 4,979 lake trout stomachs (593 examined in 1930 and 1,253 collected in 1931 from southern Lake Michigan, 1,446 from northern Lake Michigan and 1,687 from Green Bay in 1932), and of a total of 1,528 lawyer stomachs (172 examined in 1930 and 734 collected in 1931 from southern Lake Michigan, 612 from northern Lake Michi
Authors
John Van Oosten, Hilary J. Deason
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

The force required to move particles on a stream bed

No abstract available.
Authors
W. W. Rubey

The ineffectiveness of regulation of the Great Lakes fisheries by the individual states

No abstract available.
Authors
Elmer Higgins
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

The municipal ground water supplies of North Dakota

No abstract available.
Authors
G. A. Abbott, F. W. Voedisch
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Dakota Water Science Center

The Nushagak district, Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
John Beaver Mertie

The San Juan country, a geographic and geologic reconnaissance of southeastern Utah

No abstract available.
Authors
H. E. Gregory

The status of wildlife research: 1937.

No abstract available.
Authors
W.L. McAtee

The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska, in 1936

No abstract available.
Authors
Ralph Tuck

Treat - think - and be wary, for tomorrow they may die

For some very strange reason it is easy to minimize the villian's role, played by disease-producing organisms, in the theater of modern fish culture. Much concern is felt over the food bills footed each month by the hatcheries, but very little is thought about the dead fish which are picked from the hatchery troughs during the same period.
Authors
F. F. Fish
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Fisheries Research Center

Water levels and artesian pressures in observation wells in the United States in 1937

No abstract available.
Authors
O. E. Meinzer, L.K. Wenzel