LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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 Birds May be Kept in the All-Purpose Pens in the Rearing Field Until Well 



INTO THE Fall 493 



White or Orange-Colored Chicken Feathers, Wired Fast to the Tail Feathers 



OF THE Grouse Before Liberation, Aid in Checking on Sibseqient Movements 505 

 Liberated Grouse Soon Adapt Themselves to Wild Conditions Although Some 



Never Regain their Fear of Man so Char.acteristic of Their Wild Cousins 505 

 An Excellent Covert in which Mixed Woods are Edged with Overgrown Fields 



AND Broken. Here and There, by Small Slashings and Abandoned Lands. Such 



a Covert May Provide Large Crops of Both Grouse and Timber, if Skill- 

 fully Maintained 588 



Typical Abandoned Upland 598 



An Ideal Edge Such as this is of More Value for Wildlife than as a Site on 



which to Plant Evergreens 600 



New York State's Game Management Areas are Developed on the Multiple Use 



Principle 603 



An Occasional Small Slashing Makes Extensive Woodlands More Attractive to 



Grouse 621 



Winter Feeding Stations Attract Only an Occasional Bird 632 



In Back Pastures, Many a "Grousy Nook" is Maintained by Moderate Grazing 641 



In the Early Stages. Small Patches of Fall Feeding Groi nds May be Maintain- 

 ed Rather Easily 643 

 When Allowed to Grow Up. Considerable Cutting is Necessary to Release Food 



Species from the Competition of Their Taller Neighbors. Without this 



Help. Apple and Sumach (indicated by arrows) Will Soon be Choked Out 643 



Fortunate is the Covert Which Supports a Scattering of Apple Trees along its 



Edges 645 



A Brushed-out Woods' Road is Attractive alike to Nesting Birds, Broods and 



Adults 645 



Where Winter Shelter Is Scarce, a Spot Such as This May Well Be Thinned to 



Encourage the Evergreens Beneath 646 



Slash Lanes, from 30 to 50 Feet Wide. Provide Excellent Summer Feeding 



Grounds for Broods and Fall Feeding Areas for Adults 61" 



An Ideal Small Slashing, Clean Cut. Irregular in Outline and with Evergreens 



Nearby 649 



A Combination Such as This Offers a Challenging Opportunity to Produce 



Large Crops of Both Grouse and Timber 651 



Heavily Pruned Plantations and Grouse Are Not Compatible 652 



Where the Proper Seed Trees Are Present Nature May Often Be Depended 



Upon to Re-establish Satisfactory Woody Cover 656 



Planting Spruce by the Center Hole Technique 658 



Most Hardwood Trees and Shrubs Respond Best When Planted Directly Into 



Newly Plowed Furrows 659 



White Pine, Interplanted in .\n Opening in Second-Growth Hardwoods. Here 



Provides Much Needed Winter Shelter for Grouse 66(1 



Where the Crown Cover Is Fairly Open an Underplanting of Shade-Tolerant 



Spruce May Also Furnish Winter Shelter 661 



