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= United States AepAatnent of Agriculture 
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Wildlife Research and Management Leaflet BS-39 
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Washington, D. C. * March 1936 | 
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REPORT ON THE ARNETT, OKLAHOMA, EXPURIMENTAT. QUAIL AND 
PRAIRIE i. CH So MANAGE? aT ‘PROJECT 
By Verne Davison, formerly ENopanetin Superintendent of Project; abridged by 
W. L. McAtee, Technical Adviser, Cffice of the Chief 
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METEOOUIC TOM, 3. 5 ea e el ete eed ' Management studies--Continued 
SELLE Gta Se ame area er 2 Wise Oi shane iC- never aa cen te 
Mes Lory findings, 2 ~« .° ily | Water requirements. , >. .« 4. 
meisser prairie chicken. .°.-; Fe | PPOCADORSILs co ve we Tk te nets & 
BIOS La ee a ne a | fiscellaneous comment .«... 5 
Maneieenient Studies . . .:e 6 a e 5 | Introduction of Mexican quail 5 
SIS OOMMAE ee be eve Ce ee 3 Misconceptions of hunters . iS) 
CO ECIVOS cg: ip gg 6 8 68 4 | WSC) MIG et. acislys: «6 aye 6 
"INTRODUCTION 
The Arnett project, in official progress during 1932-34, was one of a 
series of demonstrations arranged between sponsors, the American Game Associa- 
tion, and the Bureau of Biological Survey. The sponsor in this particular case 
was the Oklehoma State Game and Fish Commission. The site was the Davison 
Ranch of about 100,000 ecres in Ellis County, and the superintendent, Verne 
Davison. : 
While. the project started with great mopes and had local management of 
the highest type, frecuent changes in the pernoene! and policies of the sponsor- 
-ing organization handicapped operations so tnet the cooperative work came to 
an untimely and disappointing end, Nevertheless, many things of interest were 
learned and they are briefly summarized here from 2 report extending to about 
100 ordinary typewritten manuscript pages, prepared by Verne Davison, now 
associate eee in the Soil Conserva ation SGTNice, at Hurray, Se Dale: 
fee Ys will be gied to loarn that Me. Davison plens to carr on the work so 
far as practicable, throuzh the sgency of an expericneed local assistant, as 
@ personel contribution to wildlife management studies. -It was his initia ‘tive, 
intelligence, end self-sacrificing activity that brought the originel myeenees 
tion to its present degree of achievement, and he deserves the greatest 
Success in its contimuation,—-—W.L.M.. 
