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Ecologi cal Studies
Plans have been made for a long-term study of the effectsof environmental co
humidity. Indigenous soil factors will be analyzed by ‘mapping.‘of soil ‘and radiation
and aquatic features will be studied in both fresh and salt water. An ‘inventory of p
animal life will include the determination of species association; mapping of vegetali
terns; plant and animal population studies; study of the production, utilization, exc
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to-begin about:‘the time the Rongelap People are
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first visits were made during March, but the program is not expected to bein full
until the fall semester of 1957. (End of UNCLASSIFIED section.) SE
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