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Pasture 
SmaII g raIn s 
Tota I 
a r 
- Estimated for a 
and the 0.25 perimeter. 
1.7 
0+ 
1.5 
0.6 
26.3 
16.5 
20 -square-mile area: the 
0+ 
0+ 
0+ 
1. 1 
1-7 
0+ 
8.0 
8.1 
2.2 
16-square-mile (4 x 4) block 
Table 3 . Number of broods observed per 
routes during August, 1975-77. 
100 miles of driving along standardized 
Area 
FCMU 
SSA 
Anchor— 
Ha rwood— 
Prai rie Green- 
d 
-Roadsides seeded in fall 1976 . 
b 
-Roadsides seeded in fall | 977 . 
_Broods Observed per 100 M i les 
1975 I 976 1977 
54.4 
30 . 1 
29.4 
26.9 
10.3 
2-3 
17.7 
5-2 
7.5 
7-0 
19-0 
5-7 
i£P lo 9y ££!d Management of Squi rrels 
C. M. Nixon, 
L. P. Hansen 
p lace^sever^s tress oiTth<rfemafe 9 f anCy ’ ^ " urs '"9 young must, at times, 
after a food-short winter. * squirrel, particulariy in early spring 
breeding" ^I^Tio^w^thi^e^ fe " ale COmpared with a 
of two penned females Cith three and w' we ™ easured the da My food intake 
were similar"for Ihe'w females^^lfnarch ‘a® ° f ener9y di 9 ested 
birth of the seven young. On 3 April \ weeks approxlnnate| y 2 weeks after 
young required an average of 77 percent fMo ?° 5tpar ‘ Um ’ the females "ursing 
breeding squirrels and 66.1 percent tSd i u' 9 |? ) "'° re f °° d than the 
27 April, when the young were first selp 5 the i T? r ® d ' 9ested ener 9y- By 
average of 91 . 9 g/day or 51 4 n t ?' h mothers were consuming an 
9/ y, or 51.4 g ( 143.4 percent) more than the average for 
