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If it be estimated that half the Ozark type and a tenth of the Hill type repre- 

 sent the now available turkey range, then the average present rate of stocking 

 is 1.4 square miles of range per turkey. If it be estimated that each square mile 

 of available range might carry five birds, then our present turkey country is 86 

 per cent idle. 



BIG GAME 



AS DETERMINED BV A 



GAME SURVEY 



OF THE NOKTH<ENTRAL STATES. 



MADE BY ALDO LEOPOLD IN WZS- 

 SPORTING ARNSIAMMUNITION MANUFACTURERS'INSTITUTE 



mm 



) Game Preserve^ Club Q) 

 Present Remnant or Outpost 

 Past Occurrence (dale last seen to right) 

 Plant Number above, dale txkm 

 Drift seen (dale to righl) 

 Present Range 



Former Range (fragments of boundary) 

 'Standard'deer refuge (Mich) 



MAP 16 



Plants, Refuges, Forests. The amount of effort now being made to 

 correct this idle condition may be roughly guaged by the replantings which are 

 being made and the number of refuges or public forests suitable for restocking. 

 The status of these actions in the southern tier of States (the only ones possessing 

 any appreciable areas of turkey range), is given in Table 38. The reason for the 

 numerous question marks under "refuges" is that it is hard to determine, without 



