. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 10. Game protection; Birds. FiR. 6. A SEASON'S CATCH OF GAME DESTROYERS: FOXES AND WEASELS Predatory animals are carefully controlled in Pennsylvania by Refuge Keepers, Game Protectors, and interested sportsmen. Bounties are paid annually on about 450 wild cats, 11,000 foxes (red and gray), and 25,000 weasels. These animals are the only ones on which bounties are paid. The Bureau of Research and Information conducts biological re- searches, delivers lectures to organizations on request, makes motion pictures of the wild animal life of the Commonwea
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 10. Game protection; Birds. FiR. 6. A SEASON'S CATCH OF GAME DESTROYERS: FOXES AND WEASELS Predatory animals are carefully controlled in Pennsylvania by Refuge Keepers, Game Protectors, and interested sportsmen. Bounties are paid annually on about 450 wild cats, 11,000 foxes (red and gray), and 25,000 weasels. These animals are the only ones on which bounties are paid. The Bureau of Research and Information conducts biological re- searches, delivers lectures to organizations on request, makes motion pictures of the wild animal life of the Commonwealth, and prepares and issues bulletins of interest to sportsmen and scientists. There is an increasing demand for accurate information as to the wild life of the Commonwealth from sportsmen's associations, service clubs, nature study societies and Boy and Girl Scout organizations, which the commission has been greatly pleased to recognize, and some 300 lectures were delivered during the past year. The Board is non-partisan in its composition and non-political in its function and all employes are strictly cautioned to refrain from political activities of any kind. Appointments to the field force are on a civil service basis and not governed by political pressure or influence. Tenure of service for a good man is thus assured, and he can devote himself strictly to the work to which he is assigned without fear or favor. PROBLEMS OF GAME ADMINISTRATION I have outlined above the plan of organization and the functions of the several divisions of the Board of Game Commissioners, and we will now consider some of the problems confronting the Board in their endeavor to propagate and increase the beneficial wild life of the Commonwealth. The average citizen who considers the work of game administra- tion at all, is apt to think that the most serious thing the Board has to deal with is the illegal hunter or law violator. The game warden, or as we term our field man, the "game protector
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