$12 Million Sought
For Harbor Work
The small Boat Harbor at Ko
diak was included in additional
funds sought from the House and
Senate Appropriations Committee
by Delegate Bartlett, who asked
that the $.1,358,000 contained in
the budget for construction of Al
aska navigation and flood control
Projects be increased to $12,884,
200. Thirteen projects in Alaska
would be affected.
Delegate Bartlett pointed out in
seeking funds in addition to the
budget requests that Congress has
authorized construction of six
small boat harbor and breakewater
projects at Craig, Elfin Cove, Ko
diak, Pelican, Sitka and Skagway
in addition to Wrangell, Ketchikan
and Valdez projects already con
tained in the President’s budget
request.
These projects, Delegate Bart
lett stated, “totalling only $12,844,
200, would provide greatly needed
harborage facilities and make
oftentimes hazardous and time
consuming voyages a thing of the
past. The benefit which would flow
from their completion cannot be
measured in dollars. I urge that in
addition to the $1,358,000 request
ed in the budget that a good meas
ure of the remaining authorized
projects totalling $12,844,200 be
considered favorable for immedi
ate construction.”
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Alaska wildlife officials point
out that few people living in or
outside of Alaska realize the vast
area it encompasses. It is difficult
to visualize an area one-fifth the
size of the United States, contain
ing 586,400 square miles.
Neither the abundance or varie
ty of the Alaskan game species are
equaled in any other area under
the American flag; nor has the
Fish and Wildlife Service, charged
with the protection of wildlife, a
greater or more complex responsi
bility.
Missing are the usual facilities
for surface transportation. Only
2,174 miles of improved roads are
open to year around travel. The
one railroad in the Territory is
but 470 miles in length and crosses
two mountain ranges between the
sea coast town of Seward and the
largest city of the Interior, Fair
banks. Contributing to the com
plexity of the conservation prob
lem is a rapidly increasing perma
nent and transient population near
the larger defense centers where
the primary interest in wildlife is
recreational as opposed to the
small inaccessible villages where t
wildlife is the basis of local econo-J
mies.
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Alaska’s present protection staff,'
consists of twenty game manage
ment agents located at nine wild-)'
life district headquarters. These'«
districts vary in size from 19.000 to
292,000 square miles—the last be-j
ing Fairbanks, which is unquesion-."
ably the largest of its kind under
the American flag. The smallest
district in Alaska is larger individ
ually than several of the States, yet
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a greater protective staff than is
provided for all of Alaska.
During the past year Alaska
agents traveled a total of 518,783
miles by aircraft, vessel, outboard
motorboat, auto, foot and dog team
while enforcing conservation regu
lations, conducting game surveys,
sealing beaver, banding birds, hold
ing hearings, participating in
search and rescue missions and
other activities.
Patrol mileages and methods re
flected changes to meet the pres
ent day challenge of wildlife man
agement. In 1931 the Fish and
Wildlife Service owned and oper
ated four dog teams with a total
of forty-eight dogs. In that same
year those teams traveled 10,000
miles while travel by plane was
but 5,000 miles. Since then, travel
by dog team has declined to a 50
mile yearly average while the use
of aircraft has steadily increased.
The first airplane for wildlife pro
tection was acquired in 1939. To
day the Service operates a fleet
of nine planes in that program.
Aircraft patrol mileage alone dur
ing the past year was over 350,000
miles. ' ■
"The Alaska agents are one
group who do not have to visualise
the immensity of the area and the
responsibility involved for they
have to cover it,” remarked Wild
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life Administrator Clarence Rhode
During the past year Rhode logged
nearly 46,000 miles of travel while
on general administrative duties
and assisting field men.
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Dr. E. E. Bach, Optometrist, will be in Kodiak to give eye
examinations on April IS, 16, 17 and 18. ^
For appointment call Mrs. Carl Huer, Phone 4851.
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