Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 41, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 September 1948 — SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF WILDLIFE WILL BE MADE IN STATE [ARTICLE]

SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF WILDLIFE WILL BE MADE IN STATE

Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 9. A scientific study of Hoosier wildlife will be made under an agreement recently signed by officials of the Indiana Department of Conservation and Purdue University. Known as the Cooperative Wildlife Investigation, this project provides for “investigation of the biological principles which govern the life of game animals, .furbearing animals and game birds which spend all or part of their life cycle in Indiana.” It will seek to determine the best ways to

raise and propagate wildlife. Director John H. Nigh said the - Conservation Department has allocated $1,500 for each of the 1948-49 and 1949-50 fiscal years and $3,000 annually for succeeding years to start the project. The department also is spending SIO,OOO a year on fish studies. The Fish and Game division, headed by Donald R. Hughes, will provide use of necessary state properties, reasonable quantities of experimental animals, birds and eggs, and feed and labor for the care of experimental wildlife on game farms. Rev. Achibald is attending classes at Purdue this week.