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Surficial geology and geomorphology of Potter County, Pennsylvania
Potter County is located in the Appalachian Plateaus of north-central Pennsylvania and contains the headwaters of the Genesee River, the Allegheny River, and the Susquehanna River. Drift of Wisconsin age covers the northeastern part of the county. This study includes a detailed survev of the surficial deposits of the Genesee quadrangle in north-central Potter County and a reconnaissance of the rem
Authors
C. S. Denny
Recent concepts regarding the importance of game harvests as they affect population levels from year to year
No abstract available.
Authors
F.H. Dale
Lophortofilaria californiensis, N.G., N. Sp. (Filarioidea, Dipetalonematidae) from California quail, Lophortyx californicus, with notes on its microfilaria
A new genus and a new species of a filariod nematode, Lophortofilaria californiensis, from the California quail, Lophortyx californicus, has been described, with observations on periodicity of its microfilariae.
Authors
E.E. Wehr, C. M. Herman
Recent developments in wildlife disease studies in the Northeast
No abstract available.
Authors
C. M. Herman
Validity of mail survey data on bagged waterfowl
Knowledge of the pattern of occurrence and characteristics of response errors obtained during an investigation of the validity of post-season surveys of hunters was used to advantage to devise a two-step method for removing the response-bias errors from the raw survey data. The method was tested on data with known errors and found to have a high efficiency in reducing the effect of response-bias e
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E. L. Atwood
Fifty-sixth Christmas Bird Count. 147. Southern Dorchester County, Md
Summary and Recommendations: We suggest that managers are approaching the limits of their ability to improve waterfowl harvest management, primarily because the information needed to make better decisions is being sacrificed by the current approach to setting regulations. We propose an actively adaptive management strategy in which regulatory decisions play a dominant role in reducing uncertaint
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C.S. Robbins
New bird repellents for longleaf seed
No abstract available.
Authors
B. Meanley, W.F. Mean, H.J. Derr