3. Property interests of landowners are protected "by th.3 elimination 

 of trespassing aouses. 



4. An adequate brood stock is preserved. 



5. A larger piieasant yield is possible and a ^iven area provides good 

 hunting for more hunters — not less. 



6. Landowners regard larger gaiae crops as an asset, not as a liability. 



7. Landowners modify agricultural operations in the direction of 

 pheasant management, 



8. Trom 65 percent to 95 percent of the farmer-landowners are them- 

 selves hunters, and so view game production from both the fa.rmers ' end 

 sportsmen's vie\irpoints, 



9. Ideal farmer- sportsmen relationships are made possible. Sportsmen 

 value highly the privileges granted, stA farmers take great pride in the number 

 of birds taken on ti'ieir farms. Instead of finding repeated posting of lands 

 with "No Hunting" signs, hunters axe pleased to see such refreshing and psycho- 

 logically sound signs as "Yi/'elcome Iviembers of Blank. Township Game Protective 

 Association," 



10. The nonresident hunter (city man) is pleased with the 'system because 

 he is guaranteed good hunting close to his home and thus is saved much in 

 time and travel expense. .... 



11, The system is essentially a democratic and a nonprofit one — no one 

 who obeys the regulations is excluded. Hunters consider that the small fees 

 paid merely support the regulation and ms.nagement upon which a continued crop 

 depends. This mut^ie.lly a,dvantageous system prevents the development of ex- 

 clusive nondemocratic harvest plans. 



A number of townships each collect $500 to $1,000 a year (about $20 

 to $40 for each section of land involved). The Liberty Township association 

 collected $965.25 in fees in 1936. Tne incom.e is expended for the following 

 items: 



1. Printing and mimeographing, posting of association lands, and cost 

 of contacting association members, (The officers usually serve without pay.) 



2. liTages. The unemploj^-ment problem in the township is solved by hiring 

 2 to 20 part-time (often 2 to 4 full-time) enforcement officers to check on 

 regj-lations and reduce violations. 



3-, t'.ianagement measures, refiige developments, winter feeding, and new 

 breeding stock. ..... , . ;. . 



4. Social events. Some associations use 10 percent to 20 percent of 

 proceeds to pay for .two social events for association members — one before the 

 hunting sea,son and one after. These are important in the administration of 

 the system, particularly in smoothing differences and in promoting conmiunity 

 interest in the plan, 



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