Sea Otters, 1955-1961 (2 of 3)
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PrintThe materials include correspondence, memoranda, maps, reports (including preliminary), documenting research and field work on sea otters, 1957-1961. They discuss publications and aims for population management. Official permits for permissions for collecting live otters and specimens. Reports (some by Ford Wilke) discuss most aspects of sea otter populations and their behaviors (breeding, eating,sex-ratios, etc). Some correspondence discusses the commercial fur industry. Primary focus of research is stated as reproduction, mortality, and population density. The final report is by Donald E. Stullken, Wildlife Management; Charles M. Kirkpatrick, Wildlife Management; and Department of Forestry and Conservation, Purdue University.
1955-1961
1955
1961
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Mammalogy
SIA RU007407
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Bird and Mammal Laboratories, Records, 1945-1970
1 folder
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Box 2