Fauna Series No. 2 Cover Contents Foreword Introduction Part I Part II

Fauna of the National Parks of the United States PART II REPORTS CONCERNING ADMINISTRATIVE PHASES OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT The reports and data compiled in this brief section pertain to wildlife restoration ultimately, but more immediately to restoration through certain administrative arrangements. The letter to Mr. Thomas C. Vint, Chief of the Branch of Plans and Design, National Park Service, indicates how closely wildlife management integrates with and transects the construction phase of national-park development, and incidentally, all other phases of national-park administrative activities. The reports on buffer areas and research areas are an attempt to arrive at a comprehensive, long-time plan for developing national parks so that developments shall exert a minimum of malinfluence on the wilderness characteristics of the parks and outside influences shall be buffed down into compatible proportions. Buffer areas, in other words, would act as transformers to step-down the high, disruptive pressure against native forms coming from outside the parks. The research areas report is an attempt, specifically, to zone the parks, from the administrative point of view, toward securing the maximum preservation and utility of their wilderness sections for scientific purposes directly, and indirectly for the ultimate benefit of everybody. The reports are, otherwise, self-explanatory. Overgrazing as a landscape problem Research reserves Buffer areas Wildlife management under emergency conservation work Directions for faunal research in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park issued to the naturalist technician in charge

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