. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: 1962-1967: Building a National Wildlife Program 81. The last national conference of CWS biologists was held in Ottawa in 1966. In attendance at the historic gathering were: {front row, I. to r.) E. McEwan, J. B. GoUop, F. G. Cooch, R. Jakimchuk, N. Ferret, W. E. Stevens (Superintendent, Western Region), D. A. Munro (Director), A. G. Loughrey (Superintendent, Eastern Region), B. B. Virgo, T. C. Dauphine, D. R. Flook, A. Radvanyi, L. P. E. Choquette, D. A. Benson, R. H. Kerbes; {middle row) R. W. Fyfe, J. A. Keith, A. Dzubin, J. Kerekes, N. Novakows
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: 1962-1967: Building a National Wildlife Program 81. The last national conference of CWS biologists was held in Ottawa in 1966. In attendance at the historic gathering were: {front row, I. to r.) E. McEwan, J. B. GoUop, F. G. Cooch, R. Jakimchuk, N. Ferret, W. E. Stevens (Superintendent, Western Region), D. A. Munro (Director), A. G. Loughrey (Superintendent, Eastern Region), B. B. Virgo, T. C. Dauphine, D. R. Flook, A. Radvanyi, L. P. E. Choquette, D. A. Benson, R. H. Kerbes; {middle row) R. W. Fyfe, J. A. Keith, A. Dzubin, J. Kerekes, N. Novakowski, V. D. Hawley, W. Morris, E. Kuyt, A. M. Pearson, F. H. Schultz, L. M. Tuck, F. L. Miller, T. Barry, G. E. Arsenault, G. H. Watson, Cuerrier, G. Adams; {back row) J. B. Heppes, W. Thurlow, J. C. Ward, G. W. Scotter, R. H. Mackay, J. B. Millar, W. J. D. Stephen, W. R. Miller, A. H. Macpherson, W. T. Munro, R. Murray, R. D. Harris, J. P. Kelsall, B. C. Johnson, A. J. Erskine, C. A. Drolet, V. E. F. Solman (Photo credit: CWS). onus be on the manufacturers to prove the safety of their products, and not on "the [to] give proof that pesticides have damaging direct and indi- rect ;'* In 1964, CWS contracted with C. David Fowle of York University to undertake the federal govern- ment's first detailed field study of biocides, collabo- rating with the New Brunswick Department of Lands and Mines to assess the impact on wildlife of phos- phamidon, an early replacement for DDT in the struggle to control the Spruce Budworm. Serious negative effects on birds were reported.^ That sum- mer, too, CWS established a National Registry of Pesticide Residues in Wildlife Tissues. By 1967, a CWS pesticides group had been established that would, over the next 30 years, be responsible for major scientific contributions (see Chapter 8). Habitat management, however, was the growth issue of the day. In its second year, the pilot program to lease prairie potholes expand
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