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^ a ®*T"!:. prior 1 to nestin 9- Nest densities and nest success are highest the 
2 nd and 5 th, or later, nest season after burning, but there is no clear nartern 
of use between these nest seasons. Burning (i.e! after the Istnesj season 
flnL- bUr "k appears to be better than not burning regardless of the management 
lowing a burn. Freshly burned fields and hayed fields of prairie qrass^learlv 
result in unattractive cover conditions for nesting prairie chickens . 9 V 
Table 2. Prairie chicken nest numbers and nest success in burned and unburned 
fields dominated by prairie grass and according to nest season after burning and 
management prior to nesting, Bogota, 1967 - 79 . 
Nest season 
after burning, 
and management 
prior to nesting 
2 undisturbed 
2 mowed 
2 hayed 
3 undisturbed 
3 mowed 
3 hayed 
4 undisturbed 
4 mowed 
4 hayed 
^5 undisturbed 
£5 mowed 
^5 hayed 
Unburned prairie 
undisturbed 
mowed 
hayed 
Acres 
Searched 
Nests 
Found 
Nests 
/1OA. 
96 
14 
27 
22 
40 
16 
27 
7 
25 
4 
15 
11 
13 
111 
35 
20 
2 
8 
1 
2 
4 
2 
1 
3 
0 
7 
6 
1 
5 
3 
0 
0.0 
1.4 
3.0 
0.5 
0.5 
2.5 
0.7 
1.4 
1.2 
0.0 
4.7 
5.5 
0.8 
0-5 
0.9 
0.0 
Hatches 
0.0 
1.5 
0.0 
0.5 
0.6 
0.0 
0.0 
0.0 
0.0 
2.0 
3.6 
0.8 
0.2 
0.3 
0.0 
Percent 
C 1 /» 
0.0 
50.0 
0.0 
100.0 
25.0 
0.0 
0.0 
0.0 
42.9 
66.7 
100.0 
40.0 
33.3 
Ecology and Management of Deer 
C. M. Nixon, 
L. P. Hansen, 
J. E. Chelsvig 
Whiia conventional forest inventories have provtded neaUh'o^i''’? 
arrangement^f 3 thesesser^eaetat? ap ~‘~ ^at" 
or rotten trees are 
