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PARTON 12
wildlife collecting
activities occurring in our state and to have access to reports and publications
resulting from such collections. For your information, the Department collected
wildlife specimens from the Page Ranch in the early 1970’s. If the University
wishes to use the information collected as the result of testing these
specimens, please contact Tom Spalding, Region V, Supervisor, 555 N. Greasewood
Rd., Tucson, AZ 85701. In the event that no one has been named to collect
wildlife for the University at Page Ranch, I am enclosing an application
for a management research permit, which may be issued under the provisions
of the scientific collecting permit regulations at no charge to employees
or faculty members of the University. Thank you for your cooperation.(84)
A search
of UA files revealed a memo dated January 25, 1985 from Bryan R. Westerman,
Ph. D., Director, UA Radiation Control Office to Lee B. Jones, Ph.D., Vice
President of Research.(85) The memo establishes that animals were collected
on the PTRL on December 12, 1984, prior to the aforementioned January 3,
1985 Game and Fish letter. It reads as follows:
“On December 12, 1984,
a number of animals were harvested from Page Ranch for assay of radioactive
material. The animals were trapped live from two different locations on
the ranch by a graduate student of the University of Arizona’s Wildlife
Research Unit, School of Renewable Natural Resources. A single specimen
of Kangaroo rat, Pack rat, Cotton rat and Deer mouse were collected both
from within the radioactive waste burial enclosure and from a distant site
to represent controls. Tissues were obtained from the heart, kidney, liver
and muscle of each animal, dissolved in N.E.N. Protosol and assayed for
200 minutes in a liquid scintillation counter. Final calculations on the
results have yet to be completed, but comparison of the data
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