Vol. 21, No. II 
Page 2 
Tab!e I. Success of pheasant hunters on the Sibley Study Area and Ford County 
Management Unit during opening weekend of upiand game season, ,973-1978. 
1973 
1974 
1975 
1976 
1977 
1978 
Number of Parties Interviewed^ 
Number of Pheasants Harvested^ 
Percent of Birds Juvenile^ 
28 • 
91 
85 
36' 
73 
71 
28 
78 
6o 
27 
80 
74 
18 
27 
75 
30 
56 
84 
Man-hours per Pheasant Harvested 
Sibley Study Area 
~T~ 
7.4 
8.3 
16.5 
9-7 
35.0 
18.4 
Ford County Management Unit 
1 
3-1 
4.7 
6.2 
11.6 
7-9 
Statistics for both study areas combined. 
Ecology and Management of Sq u j rre 
C. 
L. 
M. 
P. 
Nixon, 
Hansen 
It is axiomatic that nest hnvpc r__ c— . 
placed in the physical environment the squi Tret's" rea S ’ bS effective < must be 
part of our studies evaluating nest 1 9 for n65t sites ' a 
on the physical environment surroundinq each of ° X 5quirr ® ls < we collected data 
included a number of variable h\ ? f ° ur nSSt boxes ' Those data 
escape trees, and direction of ^ e'raCce 9 ’ SpeCieS ’ "” ber ° f 
to deI:™?„ y ; S us V r o rno h n- V us r l a o b ; e a S ""‘T' a -'«rl»lna„t function analysis 
analysis selected three variables^ bei'naHimDn 1 .^' • Th6 dl 5cr im 'nant function 
non-used nest boxes. There was a 9 P or f ant 1 n separating used versus 
box use by fox squirrels^ “gati^ b °* hei9ht a " d 
cavities in the nest box tree and squirrel use^? between the number of existing 
relationship between the number of aha a a nest box, and a positive 
surrounding the nest box and use of a neslTbox?^ n6StS th ® 3 °“ meter P^adrat 
possib^e S a e nd da s t hou 5 |d 9 not be'pla'ed ^7"°^ h" P " Ced 35 hi9h in 3 tree •» 
positive relationship be^n nelt Cox usTaCd* Z" The 
nests suggests that squirrels wil, abandon leaf nes^C V n^" ’p^sible. 
Maonses of Prairie Chickens ^o Habitat Manipulation 
R. L. Westemeier, 
D. R. Vance 
sanctL h Ci:ra p ! e B: g f oL 5 r:\m 2j e ss h n ?:£s? >un v n a search ° f 340 — » 
spring population (74 cocks). Unfortunately hCfCh7 Ver f ° Und relative to the 
34.6 percent. nateiy, hatch success amounted to onlv 
