This report is an overview of ongoing animal damage control programs in the 31 Eastern States, made possible by scores of individuals and the organizations they represent. The response to requests for data was excellent. For example, all 31 State Wildlife Agencies contributed information on their programs. As was to be expected, the organizations contacted do not use the same format in discharging their responsibilities nor in the records they keep. Thus precisely recorded figures have to march side by side with educated estimates , but at least the estimates were made by personnel intimately acquainted with a particular project. As this survey progressed, its base broadened to include several thousand organizational contacts that should have been made, a task beyond the limitations of this first endeavor. Thus isolated examples will often have to serve in place of a comprehensive assessment of animal damage control programs in the Eastern States
