MfIM HISTORY SURVEY 
monthu wildlife research letter apr g 137g 
Illinois Federal Aid Project W- 66 -R M Porov ' 
~ «•••■•' , wr „, n , 
Ol*" C. Sanderson and Eae Stager, Editors 
Urbana, Illinois 
March, 1979 
Vol. 22, 
Manipulation of Pheasant Habitat 
p , . # R* £. Warner 
1979 on four'^eafin^st-centraf , ^ , £l ic0 P ter during January- 
and Prairie Green township (Iroquois' Co.™f ?" ch ° r townshi P <*LeI„ County) 
FCHU ,n 1368 , and seeded roadside vegetation’,' R ? ads ' des were seeded on the 
r -«? Kutw ^k^shsss: 
simMar count taken in January 1 COmpared with a 
count ranged'f rom 77 MfSS ‘S ^T'* ind ‘ da ‘ ad d the" £9 
The magnitude of declines noted byte? 1 ! Green) over the two-year period 
w,th the findi - ° f — 
™ a '- Helicopter censuses of pheasants o f 
eentral Illinois, 1977 and 1979 . " StUdy areaS in east ' 
Area 
Number 
of Sections 
censused 
122L 
Pheasants 
per 
section 
SSA 
I 
FCMU 
ANCHOR 
HARWOOD 3 
prairie green 
36.25 
20 
16 
16 
16 
9 
30 
8 
5 
26 
Number 
of Sections 
censused 
36.25 
32 
32 
I2Z2. 
Pheasants 
per 
section 
