| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1963 |
| Authors: | Lehmann, VW, Mauermann, RG |
| Journal: | The Journal of Wildlife Management |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Date Published: | 1963 |
| ISBN Number: | 0022541X |
| Keywords: | Phasianidae, Tympanuchus, Tympanuchus cupido |
| Abstract: | The Attwater's prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) is extinct in Louisiana and has decreased to approximately 1,335 in Texas. The decline since the last comprehensive studies of the 1930's has been approximately 7,365 chickens or 85 percent. Intensified use of grasslands, exclusion of controlled fire, oil development, predator increase, and expanded rice farming (now under a control program which actually encourages the breaking of additional prairie and the use of cultivated acres to the absolute limits of capability) are largely responsible. The current wide use of agricultural chemicals may also be important. Public sentiment favors a strong program to save Attwater's prairie chicken, a hallmark of the prairies that used to be. A program which conservation forces might apply immediately includes agreements with landowners, predator control, habitat improvement, transfer of chickens, establishment of a prairie chicken preserve, lease of nesting areas in fallow rice lands, multiple land-use management, continuation of closed season on prairie chickens, warning signs on roads, and enlarged life-history and management studies. |
| URL: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3798487 |
| Short Title: | The Journal of Wildlife Management |
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