NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY 
MONTHLY WILDLIFE RESEARCH LETTER 
JUN 14 1976 
Department of 
Glen 
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Illinois Federal Aid Project W- 66 -R 
Conservation and Natural History Survey, Cooperating 
C. Sanderson and Helen C. Schultz, Editors 
Manipulation of Pheasant Habitat 
R* E. Warner 
unit (FCMU) n rega y rd?n 7 g theTan i tides'"toward"^^'' 5 'h T ^ C0U " ty '‘ a " a 90 ment 
that their initial indoctrination fty SSe f d r0adside P^ram showed 
letters) had oriented these cooperators lo the CO " ta “ and four subsequent 
and to the importance of the dels od • , purpose of the roadside seedings 
is evidenced by our findings T^e ^ ° f ', Au9ust - This conclusion 
FChU, that 83 percent of the cooperajofs recanld^nt'e 6 - 651 - 6 ' iShment ° f the 
agreement (IIWRL 19(4)-I) In thi, = recalled entering into a delayed mowinq 
cooperators (8 3 percentI'eJressed Lt-^ ° f l^ attitljdes in 1976, most ® 
(I.WRL 19(4): 2 ) . The apparent optimismTs^of 0 ^-?"' 1 acce P tance of, the program 
fact that in the previous summer Tqyc l?V, y ex P licable in view of the 
layed the mowing of roadsides until ^AnoUst P ercen ' of the cooperators de- 
clude that the expressed opt mism ibout fhe roL 'r ° iWRL ' 9 < 3 > :l >. We con- 
a sufficient impetus to cause the ! l ! roads,de P™gram is not in itself 
consecutive summers. The following fa c tors° nsted"’^ 0 " 1 6ar,Y mOW ' n9 over 
portance, have substantially ; n n 2 ^ 1 ' 1 ,sted in apparent order of im- 
mowing in the FCMU over the^ast 6 years: 6 ° f coo P era t'on in delayed 
2 ) 
s ig n j n can 11 y "re la t e d ** (p*4 0 S ()5 ) 3 to ^ the°e° t Y ° f S"* p, * ntl " 9 is 
FCMU, which presumably is indfra^ t he extent of early mowing on the 
have to perform secondary one ° f 3m ° Unt ° f tlme ^mers 
crop planting ^“n^^ng:^ 35 r ° 3dSide Early 
Lac k of commitment to, and e nthus iasm for, the se.w.x 
Many of the cooperators who haup f.iioj + JL 
over 8 the 
