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(m per section to 30 per section) oven Mj.rU*. ~ S» 
declined 36 percent (62 p related primarily to the continued 
in pheasant abund<»« on » h a ea reproductive and overwintering 
toybean acreages and associated clean farm.ng pract.ces. 
, 0 a c Hnnimented by the aerial census in January 1977> 
.a 
teedligrin'th^farealr^nTnabie us to compare the preseeding with the 
postseeding abundance of pheasants. 
Table 
Pheasant abundance as determined by winter aerial census. 
Anchor (McLean) 
Harwood (Champaign) 
prairie Green (Iroquois) 
FCMU (Ford) 
SSA (Ford) 
Number of 
Sections 
Censused 
16 
16 
16 
20 
36 1/4 
pheasants Counted per Section-. 
February March December January 
1 9 63 1965 1973 'W 
8 
5 
26 
30 
9 
112 
47 
111 
62 
Ecology and Management of Sgui rrel_s 
C. M. Nixon, 
S. P. Havera 
As noted 1 ' he Jan “[[] a ’ grater''degree ( than' ^dul rrel s. 
to benefit juvenile fox squirrels to g c au irrels raised in boxes 
and' tre^cavi t^es) C or°to th^bette^shelter provided by 
nest boxes during the postweaning period? 
Ue have no evidence as yet that nest boxes a increasi ng <the production 
of young. Production of weaned young ^ » a! squirrels) 
total squirrels). 
Rnth of our 65-acre study areas are only lightly hunted each fall and 
are populated by stable, mostly adult populations of fox squirre s. 
