NWRS History | Chronology | 1930s

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Over the next eight years, thousands of CCC and Works Progress Administration workers improve habitat and build the infrastructure of more than 50 national wildlife refuges.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1934</b></td> <td valign="top">President Franklin Roosevelt appoints the Committee on Wild-Life Restoration. Its members, Thomas H. Beck (chairman), Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling, and Aldo Leopold, prepare a report for the Secretary of Agriculture recommending an aggressive program to acquire lands for waterfowl, upland game, mammals, and song, insectivorous and ornamental birds. The report further recommends that $50 million be earmarked for acquisition and habitat restoration projects and that a "restoration commissioner" be appointed under the direction of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Interior and Commerce to supervise wildlife restoration projects government-wide.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1934</b></td> <td valign="top">The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act is passed, providing for lands to be purchased by the Federal government to be managed as "inviolate migratory bird sanctuaries" by the Bureau of Biological Survey. The Act is commonly referred to as the "Duck Stamp Act" and requires that waterfowl hunters purchase a stamp. Revenue generated by the stamp has been used to protect over 4.5 million acres of waterfowl habitat.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1934</b></td> <td valign="top">Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling is appointed as Chief, Bureau of Biological Survey. Darlings brief tenure (18 months) results in a new and ambitious course for the agency to acquire and protect vital wetlands and other habitat throughout the country. Darling also designs the first Federal Duck Stamp.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1934</b></td> <td valign="top">"Ding" Darling appoints J. Clark Sayler II to be the first Chief of the Bureaus Wildlife Refuge Program. The number of refuges expands tremendously over the next 30 years under Salyers dynamic leadership. </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1935</b></font></td> <td valign="top">"Ding" Darling resigns as Chief, Bureau of Biological Survey and is succeeded by Ira N. Gabrielson</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1939</b></td> <td valign="top">The Bureaus of Biological Survey and Fisheries are transferred from the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, respectively, to the Department of the Interior under Reorganization Plan Number II. As part of this reorganization effort, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes unsuccessfully lobbies President Franklin Roosevelt to transfer the Forest Service from Agriculture to Interior as well.</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table><br> <hr noshade size="1"> <img border="0" height="20" width="77" src="../assets/site_prev.gif" alt="Previous."><img border="0" height="20" width="61" src="../assets/site_next.gif" alt="Next."> <p> <hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"> <a href="../over/over_main_fs.html">Overview</a> | <a href="chron_main_fs.html">Chronology</a> | <a href="../bio/bio_main_fs.html">Biographies</a>  <br> <a href="http://www.fws.gov/">U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service</a> | <a href="http://refuges.fws.gov/>National Wildlife Refuge System</a> </font></p> <p><font size="1"><a href="http://refuges.fws.gov/comments.html">Comments</a><br> Last Updated 12/8/99</font></td> </tr> </table> </body>