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(greater ZTlml thf \ h FCMU y * ar5 when 3 ,ar 9 e Portion of an nesting 
(greater than 50%) in the area occurs in roadsides. The fact that 69 oerceni- 
22(9 !l) U and S t^ IT'h °" ^ FCMU in 1978 W6re f ° und ln roadsides (MWRL 
22(9).1) and that brood counts were lower than expected, appears to be in 
k eeping with the findings of previous years. This topic warrants further 
FCMU Y in n ?ecent n vea t rs nS ° f P°P ulations > »hich have not existed on the 
of roads^des°as V potentia^broot^habftat^ ^ f ° r ~a,uati 
on 
Ecology and Management of Squirrels 
C. M. 
L. P. 
Nixon, 
Hansen 
di non than’th‘os r e n 2iBering in^a^ts^ relativel V better P^ld con- 
/ *” orde r 5° ^ est , thls theory, we compared the percentage carcass fat 
(on a dry-weight basis for male fox squirrels collected Z ! . 
male f/-. v 1 „ a , aquiiicib collected from nest boxes w th 
County, M HnoU, study \7L^ F#bruar * 1978 ° ur Va ™ i ^»»" 
from nest°boxes°and 9 those'from’ fea^nes ts” TE*?* T°T f *f betWee " * aleS 
OS.Tper^nf‘i y - f 25) ter perc T' N ’ = ' 0) tha " ™ ^ 
Shelter for ? 77 " 78 shou,d have provided a stern test of the suitability of 
xH.~S/"£’r?TtS-?-sr musS'L 
Vermilion County study areas. f ° f SnOW present throughout the 
R esponses of Prairie Chickens to Habitat Manipulation 
R* L. Westemeier, 
D. R. Vance 
A cash bid procedure was used from 1979 thronnh lQ 7 ft 
owned prairie chicken s ?nrtMsrinc u• u . , rough 197 o to manage the state- 
total sanctuary acreage H wblch '"elude 567 acres or 35 percent of the 
schedules and estimate for *tl“"inS f.Tr^T" 1 “ f ° Und ' C "W'"S 
sfifTir^t; ssd=r 
the typing, signing, and mailing of the new lIasesf erVat '° n <D ° C) ’ the " hand,ed 
