NWRS History | Chronology | 1950s

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The book becomes a popular success allowing Carson to retire from the government the following year to pursue a literary career.<i></i></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1956</b></td> <td valign="top">The Fish and Wildlife Service is renamed the "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service" with two bureaus, the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Management of wildlife refuges are placed under the former.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1957</b></td> <td valign="top">A revised Refuge Manual is issued, providing refuge managers and employees with the first comprehensive update of policies since 1942, including guidance on public relations that encourages "missionary work" with the public to minimize the potential of problems becoming critical issues.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%"></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%" valign="top"><b>1958</b></td> <td valign="top">The Migratory Bird Conservation Stamp Act is amended, authorizing an increase in the fee to $3, with the portion of "inviolate sanctuary" refuges that could be opened to hunting increased to 40%. The amendment also permits the Secretary of the Interior to use Duck Stamp proceeds to purchase not only "inviolate sanctuary" refuges, but also "waterfowl production area" refuges which were not subject to the 40% limit.</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>