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Table 3 . Estimated Production of Successful Pheasant Nests per Section on the 
FCMU, 1973-75. 
1973 
1974 
1975 
Cover Type 
Number 
of 
Nests 
Number 
of 
Percent Nests 
Percent 
Number 
of 
Nests 
Percent 
Roadsides 
12.4 
38.8 
10.8 
58.3 
2.7 
26.1 
Strip & Nonagricu1tural 
1 9.1 
28.5 
4.9 
26.3 
6.5 
63 .O 
Hay 
6.6 
20.7 
2.2 
12 . 1 
0.2 
1.8 
Sma11 G rains 
1-7 
5-3 
0.6 
3.3 
0.9 
9* 1 
Pasture 
2.1 
6.7 
0 + 
0 + 
0 + 
0 + 
Total 
31.9 
100.0 
18.5 
100.0 
10.3 
100.0 
a 
Strip cover consists of fencerows, waterways, 
travel lanes, and drainage 
ditches; nonagricultura 
1 cover consists of 
abandoned 
farmsteads 
, waste areas. 
and ungrazed woodlots. 
Table 4. Percentage of 
Decline (in I 975 and 1974) in 
Densities 
of Established 
and Hatched Nests on SSA and FCMU 
Roadsides 
• 
Roadsides 
Established 
Nests Per Acre 
Hatched 
Nests Per Acre 
FCMU, seeded^ 
(-) 
49-2% 
(’) 
22 . 0 % 
SSA, unmanaged control- 
(-) 
42.6% 
(-) 
47.1% 
Calculated from nest densities listed in Table 1 . 
b 
Calculated from nest densities listed in Table 2. 
