Volume 45, Number 1,
September 1998:
Greater Prairie Chicken Management

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- what is a greater prairie chicken?
- habitat
- managing habitat
- booming grounds
- booming ground survey
- nesting
- broods
- fall and winter habitat
- summary
- decreasers/increasers/ invaders
- jump shooting/pass shooting
- further reading

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Greater Prairie Chicken Management
by Gerald J. Horak and Roger D. Applegate

FURTHER READING
Allred, B.D. 1950. Practical Grassland Management. Sheep and Goat Raiser Magazine. San Angelo, TX. 307 pages.

Baker, Maurice F. 1953. Prairie Chickens of Kansas. State Biological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 5. Lawrence, KS. 68 pages.

Hamerstrom, Frances. 1980. Strictly for the Chickens. Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA. 174 pages.

Hamerstrom, F.N. Jr., Oswald E. Mattson, and Frances Hamerstrom. 1957. A Guide to Prairie Chicken Management. Wisconsin Conservation Department Technical Wildlife Bulletin 15. Madison, WI. 128 pages.

Holechek, Jerry L., Rex D. Pieper, and Charlton H. Herbel. 1989. Range Management Principles and Practices. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 501 pages.

Horak, Gerald J. 1985. Kansas Prairie Chickens. Kansas Fish and Game Commission Wildlife Bulletin 3. Pratt, KS. 65 pages.

Schwartz, Charles W. 1944. The Prairie Chicken in Missouri. Missouri Department of Conservation. Jefferson City, MO.

Schwartz, Charles W. 1945. The Ecology of the Prairie Chicken in Missouri. University of Missouri Studies XX(1): 1-99.