WOODCOCK SINGING GROUND COUNTS IN CENTRAL-EASTERN UNITED STATES, 1953 
| P. F. English 
| Pennsylvania State College 
The following agencies and their aides participated in the gathering 
of data here presented. 
Board of Game and Fish Commissioners, Dover, Delaware. 
Game and Inland Fish Commission, Baltimore 2, Maryland. 
Wildlife Resources Commission, Raleigh, North Carolina. 
Department of Conservation and Economic Development, Trenton 7, 
New Jersey. 
Department of Natural Resources, Columbus, Ohio. 
Pennsylvania Game Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 
Pemsylvania Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit and Department of 
Zoology, State College, Pennsylvania. 
Conservation Commission, Charleston, West Virginia. 
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Frankfort, Kentucky. 
It is noted that Pennsylvania has established ten new stations this 
year, these by the Wildlife Research Division of the Pennsylvania Game 
Commission, which agency now has a woodcock project on its agenda. 
Kentucky got in late this past season but hopes to do much more on 
this next year. 
In Ohio, Rt. #8 seems way out of line in comparison to all other 
areas in the region. It appears from conversation with Merrill C. | 
Gilfillan of the Department of Natural Resources in Ohio who visited 
this area that they are exceptionally high during this period and that 
numerous nests are found on this area whick is a sanctuary. The soil 
is very rich and the earthworm population is high. 
Three lines that were run in West Virginia in 1952 were not run 
in 1953. 
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