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TABLE 55. Posting in upper Michigan 



In short, four per cent of upper Michigan is posted, three per cent by clubs, 

 and one per cent on account of refuges and other causes. There are fewer clubs, 

 and probably less posting, in the wild land districts of northern Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota. 



The situation for the region may be cast up in this way: 



(1) Posting is on the increase everywhere. 



(2) It is not yet customary to post unoccupied forest lands except where 

 acquired for private preserves. These constitute less than five per cent of the 

 wild land areas. 



(3) Farm lands are from 20 to 100 per cent posted. The more valuable the 

 land and the nearer to centers of population, the heavier the posting. This trend 

 possibly reverses itself where the land is so valuable and so intensely farmed that 

 there is no game on it. 



(4) Individual permission to hunt on posted lands is often given on re- 

 quest. It is possibly more commonly given toward the south of the region than 

 toward the north. 



(5) Land values and population density being equal, posting is possibly 

 less where the principal game is partly State-propagated (namely, pheasants) than 

 where the principal game is self-propagated (namely, quail). 



(6) All the foregoing statements apply to upland and big game. Private 

 farm marshlands containing waterfowl are almost completely and universally 

 posted throughout the region. 



Charging. It is presumably a logical economic sequence for posting of 

 land to be followed by a charge for' the privilege of hunting on it. The amount 

 and nature of the charges made for hunting are described under the chapters de- 

 scribing the several game species, for the hunting of which the charges are 

 made. It must here be emphasized, however, that the custom of charging is 

 still decidedly exceptional. The aggregate area on which it is customary for 

 landowners to charge for hunting is certainly less than one per cent of the area of 

 the region, and probably less than a tenth of one per cent. On the other hand I 

 estimate, on the basis of the figures in the preceding caption, that at least 20 



