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ARCTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY
BOX 1310 : FAIRBANKS, ALASKA

UNDER CONTRACT WITH
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH

LABORATORY LOCATED AT

SEND ALL CORRESPONDENCE PoINT BARROW, ALASKA

Via Air Mail 21 April 1951

Mr. James W. Bee
Natural History Museum
University of Kansas
Larence, Kansas

Dear Mr. Bee:

It has beennecessa..ry for me to work out a schedule for the summer's
bush flying that is pretty rigid in the dates of departure and return and the
areas to which parties will be flown. Thks firm type of schedule must be made
up in order that the proper disposal of planes can be made, and supplies cached
atthe proper points before the snow disappears and the ice brekks up. So I'm
sending you the accomlanying map showing the two "circuits" I've been able to work out
forthe flights to be made by the field men. There is little chance of doing bush
flying in June, because t hat is the breakup time when there is too little snow and
the ice is too rotten for the use of skis, andthere is too little open water to
permit the use of floats. Wheels are completely out of the question fot bush flying
in this country. So the following is the schedule I have planned for you and Mr.
Jones.

July 2-12, Kaoloak (Messing at one ofthe Contractor's camps).
July 12-23 Noluk Lake (You'll be on your own as cook, camping at a
previous U. S. G. S. field station. Live in tent.
July 23=29 At Point Barrow
July 30-Aug. 6. Vicinity of Pitt Point, where the Coast and Geodetic
Survey people will be working and you can eat at their
mess tent.
July 6-11 At Point Barrow
Aug. 11-20 Wainwright region or slightly beyond if advisable. This will
be handled as a trip by launch from Barrow to Wainwright. A
Skiff with an outboard motor could be used in the etuagy of
the Kuk River.

If you arrive before the fisbt of July you could get a little work in
aroundt he immediate vicinity of Barrow, and after the third week in August you'd
probably want to spend a bit of time at Barrow getting your specimens and gear packed for
the return tothe States.

You should remember, however, that the dateag in the schedule above
are dependent on the weather. We have to set dates in order to plan an integrated
use of the planes by the ArCon, the U. S. C. & G. S., and the ARL. But if we ask
for a plane on July 2 and the weather is foul that morning, we wait. We might get
our party into the field the next fay, or it might take a week. Same situation on
picking up a partythat is already in the field. We set a schedule and hold to it as
closely as the weather and ofher facbors beyond our control permit. Some modifications
ofthe schedules may be possible later, but not too much.

Ss

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