Richard L. Weaver

Resource-Use in Pakistan

Scientists and resource managers in Pakistan are seeking ways and means to increase the production of food and fiber for the rapidly increasing population of their new country. They have tremendous problems of scarcity of land, limited capital, needed research, and training for personnel, and more effective research interpretation for a largely rural population with a low percentage of literacy. Despite the discouraging size of these problems, real progress is being made, and our International Agency for Development (AID) has played an important part in providing consultant help in planning, financial aid, training for resource technicians in Pakistan, as well as in the United States, and encouragement to design new programs. Forestry, fishery, soil, and water resources are the principal renewable resources receiving attention. Hunting and fishing by residents for sport are practically unknown, and wildlife species receive attention only as food or if dangerous. Of course, some American and European visitors and workers hunt for sport. There is no national or provincial department specifically charged with wildlife management work, although fisheries work is independently organized. Foresters have inherited much of the responsibility for the management of the renewable resources, particularly forests, soils, and water. Some fisheries biologists are now being trained. There is a great need for providing the technical training necessary for soil and water management programs. Some extension type instruction is being provided for the increasingly important village development workers to assist with educating the land owners and operators.

Why College Coordinators of Science Education

Dick Weaver was another good friend of Dicks who enjoyed the verbal jousts they had with each other. It was always interesting to stand by and listen to their sparring. At meetings one could always find the two arguing about a variety of subjects. They had many things in common, but one was the welfare of NABT. This they both fought for. Professor Weaver is Associate Professor of Conservation and Education at Michigan.

Conservation Series, Unit VI: The Introduction of Natural Resource Planning into Our Schools of Today

The metamorphosis of our nature teaching in the schools from an elective, esthetic, and extra-curricular activity to a dynamic required curriculum MUST has been taking place over the last ten years in a slow but determined way. Soon we shall see natural resource planning emerge in our natural and social science programs as one of the dominant and important interests which will influence many other fields such as art, writing, literature, sociology, history and government. In states and cities where conservationists have approached school administrators with a sound practical approach to resource planning, programs have been introduced and conducted with surprising success. Whether these programs be called nature study, nature education, conservation education, or natural resource planning, they all must embody the fundamental concepts of conservation if they are to succeed and win the support from school people, who are already besieged by hundreds of new