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Hucker
1964
Nov 28 How
Journal
It must be a big joke who
ever heard of a project collecting
thousands of birds a year with only one
taxidermist that is lucky to put out
a skin a day. A project that pays
hundreds and hundreds of dollars
continually to rent cars when it
could buy two for less. A project
that runs all over the pacific looking
for birds when there are at least 100,000
right at its main base for field operations
that it pays no attention to. A project
that sends a personal back from the
field with the excuse that it cost too
much to keep him out in the field when
in reality it is costing them more to
cross send him back. A project that
sends an entomologist out to field to
do an ornithologist's work. A project that
allows a person to shoot a gun from
the hip on a ship when it is important
to get the birds. A project that expects
its personal to put out his best effort
16 hours a day 7 days a week while
in the field and then bitches when that
personal is late for work when he is
back in Washington, DC. I could burst
out in hysterical laughter. If this is science I
am not so sure I want to become a scientist.
@and gets paid for only 8 hours a day and 5 days a week.