Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 11, DeMotte, Jasper County, 11 February 1949 — j SPORTSMEN’S QUESTIONNAIRE MAILED OUT [ARTICLE]

j SPORTSMEN’S QUESTIONNAIRE MAILED OUT

Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9. Thousands of hunters, trappers and fisherman of Indiana have received a sportsmen’s questionnaire from Pittman-Roberteon Project Leader William B. Barnes of the Division of Fish and Game. Approximately 22,000 questioni naires were mailed to a cross-

section of Indiana’s hunting, fishing and trapping population again this year. Names are chosen at random from department records and the information will cover the period from the beginning of squirrel hunting season on August 15 to the end of the night hunting and trapping season, January 15, 1948. _ Hunters who receive the forms are requested to state the number of days traps were set and the total catch. Persons receiving Sportsmen’s Questionnaires are asked to fill them in and return them promptly in order that tabulations may be completed as quickly as possible. Returns are used as representative sample for determining the annual harvest of wildlife over the state. The results are used for comparison with results of the same survey taken past years for the determination of increase or decreases in the populations of game birds and animals. This information will enable the Division of Fish and Game to better manager this valuable natural resource and make for better hunting.