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Figure 1. Cooperative hunting areas provide shooting for the unattached hunter 



hunters. Nearly all hunters expressed wishes for cooperative hunting 

 areas. 



Table 1 lists the areas with the amount of land open to hunting, and 

 it shows the number of hunters using these areas, their success and the 

 reaction to this type of hunting. 



One of the most impressive points of the plan was that the 24 

 cooperating landowners, when contacted by questionnaires or in person, 

 were all in favor of this method of controlled hunting. Hunter damage 

 to cooperating landowners' property was negligible during the entire 

 season. The cooperative hunting area plan should do much to alleviate 

 one of the largest problems confronting the bureau, namely that of 

 opening land to hunter access where wild ring-necked pheasants are 

 plentiful. 



TABLE 1. COOPERATIVE HUNTING AREAS IN USE DURING 

 1949 HUNTING SEASON 



* Fee charged. 



