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Excerpt from Avian Cholera in Canada Geese on Southern Illinois Wintering Areas: Final Report, Submitted by Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Siuc, Presented to Illinois Department of Conservation, August 31, 1994
Field work was conducted at Union County and Horseshoe Lake cas located in Union and Alexander counties, in southern Illinois. Both areas were managed primarily to provide resting and feeding habitat for wintering and migrating populations of Canada geese. Union County CA included a ha refuge area that was closed to hunting and a 830 ha public hunting area that was open to waterfowl hunting during the legal season on a permit basis. The refuge portion of Union County CA refuge included 590 ha of croplands that were annually planted to corn, soybeans, winter wheat, other forage crops, or left fallow (moritz Additional crops (primarily corn and winter wheat) were planted on the public hunting area, as well as surrounding private lands. Open roost water was maintained during dry and/or cold periods by pumping groundwater with 4 pumps located on lakes and wetlands used by geese. Union County wintered peak populations of Canada geese during the winters 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1993-94. Horseshoe Lake CA included a ha refuge and a ha area open to hunting that were managed similarly to Union County CA (moritz 1992, Brandon et al. Crops were planted on about 760 ha of the Horseshoe Lake CA refuge, and open water was maintained by pumping ground water on one small wetland area located in the center of the refuge. Horseshoe Lake Ca wintered peak populations of Canada geese during the winters 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1993-94. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
