Biologists of the Foreign Game Introduction Program spent the last half of 1964 in South America, mainly Argentina, 

 where several species of game birds occupy habitats apparently similar to some found in the South and Southwest 

 Shown are the elegant tinamou (left) and the brushland tinamou (right), both of which have certain promising 

 characteristics. (Photos by Gardiner Bump and Wayne Bohl) 



New York State posting stitdy. — The New York 

 Unit found that posted privately owned land var- 

 ied from a low of 13 percent in areas of farm 

 abandonment to a high of 52 percent in rich agri- 

 cultural regions near large urban centers. The 

 mean value for all upstate New York was 23 per- 

 cent. Sportsmen generally have the impression 

 that the percentage of posted lands is greater than 

 these amounts. 



Secondary posting, in which the landowner has 

 delegated hunting rights to a second party, ac- 

 counts for almost a third of the total posting. 

 The land of absentee owners comprised 17 percent 

 of the acreage posted, and that of full-time farmers 

 42 percent. 



Foreign Game Introduction Program. — Five 

 kinds of pheasants seem to be adapting themselves 



successfully in various parts of the United States 

 where ring-necked pheasants were never success- 

 fully acclimatized. Two species of francolin, also, 

 are showing considerable promise. At least two 

 other gamebirds introduced in substantial num- 

 l)ers have disapijeared, and several others show 

 little promise of eventual success. 



During the current year, the search for new 

 species was shifted to Argentina and Chile, where 

 the tinamous, inhabitants of grasslands and wood- 

 lands, are abundant. After 6 months of fieldwork 

 and review of pertinent literature, eight kinds of 

 tinamous have been chosen for intensive study. 

 Some of tliese live in heavily grazed grasslands, 

 and others occur in bnishlands or open ranges, sim- 

 ilar to habitat types found in the South, South- 

 west, and along the Pacific Coast. 



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Idaho elk on lower summer range (left). Elk generally work to higher elevations as the snmv recedes. Photo at 

 right shows a 1-acre exclosure on a burned area. Locksa River winter range, Idaho. The big-game-proof and 

 livestock-proof fence jiemiits measurement of the effects of grazing mid browsing on forest and range recovery. 

 ( Photos by Robert J. Robel, left : and Thomas R. Williams, right) 



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