CONSERVATION: Beasts and Workers

Besides uncounted numbers of deer, bear, foxes, rabbits, squirrels and birds of the forest, there are abroad in the woods this hunting season some 300,000 CCC workers. Following a custom he believes prudent, Director Robert Fechner of CCC last week addressed a letter to State game wardens thanking them for their help in the past and asking them again this year to keep his boys from being shot:

“I request that all hunters shall refrain from hunting within rifle range of any work project . . . and that . . . you authorize such regulations as may be necessary.”

Hunters are in no danger from CCC boys, who are discouraged from having guns not only to avoid accidents* but so that pacifists cannot accuse the corps of being militaristic. To every CCCster at work in hunting country is issued a marker—a bright headband or hat tassel—as protection from quick-triggered hunters.

*Only CCCster ever killed by a hunter was Harry L. Meyer, in Oregon in 1936. Some other CCCsters, killing a deer, found Meyer shot dead beside it.