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tiiral land is not providing the quantity of desirable wildlife habitat 

 that could be realized by economical and feasible management. The 

 percentages also indicate that approximately 84 percent of the wildlife 

 habitat considered economically feasible of improvement is on agri- 

 cultural land, with such land not in farms presenting the greatest 

 possibilities for wildlife habitat improvement. An insjjection of the 

 uses made of nonagricultural land shows that there is little possibility 

 of habitat improvement on this land. Privately owned land provides 

 more than 71 percent of the wildlife habitat that is economically prac- 

 ticable for improvement. 



GAME AND W^ILD FUR PRODUCED AND HARVESTED ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS 



As all of the estimated favorable habitat of farm game, approxi- 

 mately 50 percent of that of forest and range game, and about 40 

 percent of that of migratory game, is agricultural land, it appears that 

 at least 80 to 85 percent of the game has been produced on agricultural 

 land as defined in this publication. Indications are that in recent 

 years farm game has constituted a|)proximately 68 percent of th^ kill, 

 forest and range game 21 percent, and migratory game 11 percent. 



Table 4. 



-Estiiiiated acreage on ivhich it is considered econoniicaUi/ feasible 

 to iinprore food and cover for -wildlife, by classes of land. 19'i5 



^ These percentages were estimated by biologists and economists who are thoroughly 

 familiar with land use, agriculture, and wildlife habitat in each State and were based 

 upon a study of each class ol' l.ind. 



-The figures in this column show onlv the acreage on which it is cou.sidered economically 

 feasible to impro\e food and cover, liiey do not pretend to consider (|uality of food and 

 coveT' wliich really determine the wildlife cirrying cai)aeity of the area. 



3 Data from the T.).",.") agiicnltural census. 



M"omi)iled from I'art II of Ihe Suiiplenieiitai-.v Report of the Land I'lanning Committee, 

 National Resources Board, pp. .■!.'>-4.S. 



''Agricultural land not in farms is ri';ill\ l.iriier than shown here Itecause considerable 

 other land is grazed by domestie animals, and some other land is used for crops, particularly 

 in urban areas and Indian reservations. 



