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Excerpt from Physiological Variations in Wild Turkeys and Their Significance in ManagementSince the earliest days of colonization, the wild turkey has been closely associated with Pennsylvania history. It remains today in fair numbers and ranks with the black bear as one of the two most highly prized sporting trophies to be taken within the Commonwealth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

Excerpt from Physiological Variations in Wild Turkeys and Their Significance in ManagementThe artificial propagation of wild turkeys which possess those same desirable sporting characteristics exhibited by the true wild birds is a most difficult matter. The experimental return to a system of cross-mating employed in a limited way by the Commission over twenty years ago appeared, however, to present a method of producing birds of the desired ty...

Excerpt from The Climoactometer: A Device Designed to Measure the Effects of Various Meteorological Factors Upon the Activity and General Physiology of AnimalsWere it possible to measure both quantitatively and qualitatively the effects of the _variou's physical factors of the environment upon the activity and general physi ology of animals, many biological problems quickly could be solved. Thus, those persons entrusted with the management of ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Bounty System: A Detailed Study of Its History, Operation, Cost and Effects, Together With a Discussion of the Advisability of Its ContinuanceThe control of certain species of birds and mammals commonly classed as predators has for several centuries been considered one of the most important phases of game administration as generally applied both in the United States and in Europe.About the PublisherForgotten Books...

Excerpt from The Climoactometer: A Device Designed to Measure the Effects of Various Meteorological Factors Upon the Activity and General Physiology of AnimalsWere it possible to measure both quantitatively and qualitatively the effects of the _variou's physical factors of the environment upon the activity and general physi ology of animals, many biological problems quickly could be solved. Thus, those persons entrusted with the management of ...

Excerpt from Physiological Variations in Wild Turkeys and Their Significance in ManagementThe artificial propagation of wild turkeys which possess those same desirable sporting characteristics exhibited by the true wild birds is a most difficult matter. The experimental return to a system of cross-mating employed in a limited way by the Commission over twenty years ago appeared, however, to present a method of producing birds of the desired ty...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Bounty System: A Detailed Study of Its History, Operation, Cost and Effects, Together With a Discussion of the Advisability of Its ContinuanceThe control of certain species of birds and mammals commonly classed as predators has for several centuries been considered one of the most important phases of game administration as generally applied both in the United States and in Europe.About the PublisherForgotten Books...

Excerpt from The Place of Winter Feeding in Practical Wildlife ManagementThe Save Our Birds letter previously quoted from is again referred to in the 1908 report, while that for 1910 (kalbfus, 1911) discusses the winter feeding of quail at some length. The point stressed is the fact that the farmers, who derive the greatest benefits from the birds through their destruction of weed seeds and insects, did little or nothing to help them through t...

Excerpt from The Place of Winter Feeding in Practical Wildlife ManagementThe Save Our Birds letter previously quoted from is again referred to in the 1908 report, while that for 1910 (kalbfus, 1911) discusses the winter feeding of quail at some length. The point stressed is the fact that the farmers, who derive the greatest benefits from the birds through their destruction of weed seeds and insects, did little or nothing to help them through t...

The inspiring story of how the American shad was brought back from the brink of extinction in the Susquehanna River basin.Once the center of a major commercial industry along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York, the American shad population in the river was almost destroyed in the mid-nineteenth century by the construction of dams. However, concerned citizens began rebuilding the shad population in 1950, and the conti...

Excerpt from Physiological Variations in Wild Turkeys and Their Significance in Management Since the earliest days of colonization, the wild turkey has been closely associated with Pennsylvania history. It remains today in fair numbers and ranks with the black bear as one of the two most highly prized sporting trophies to be taken within the Commonwealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...