Proceedings of Southeastern Fish and Wildlife Conference
Prior to 2013, SEAFWA published the Proceedings of annual conferences. In 2014, SEAFWA began publishing the peer-reviewed Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.
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Duck Usage of Management Units in the Louisiana Coastal Marsh Ducks were inventoried monthly over a 2-year period in order to compare usage of management units in the Louisiana coastal marshes. Areas inventoried were brackish and fresh water impoundments, which were managed for ducks. and marsh pump-out units, managed for beef cattle. In addition, natural marshes nearby were sampled as a control. Water depth readings were taken monthly and vegetation was sampled annually to provide information on factors affecting duck usage. Greatest duck usage was in the fresh water impoundments. Robert H. Chabreck, Richard K. Yancey, Larry McNease
Pages 507-516 |
1974 |
Foods of White Ibis from Seven Collection Sites in Florida Between 1970 and 1973, 180 white ibis (Eudocimus albus) 140 adult and 40 nestlings, were collected from four fresh water and three salt water sites and their stomach contents identified. Crustacean and aquatic insects were the major food items totaling 86.4% of the total food volume. Differences exist between stomach contents of ibis collected from fresh water and salt water habitats. Those collected from fresh water habitats contained more insects and snails while those from salt water sites contained more insects of certain families and crabs. Stephen A. Nesbitt, Willa Mae Hetrick, Lovett E. Williams, Jr.
Pages 517-532 |
1974 |
Effect of Dogs on Deer Reproduction in Virginia Dogs were used to chase female white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in a 2.04Q-acre enclosure at Radford Army Ammunition Plant, Dublin, Virginia, during late pregnancy from April to June 1972 (Phase I) and throughout pregnancy from October 1972 through May 1973 (Phase II) to determine the effect on reproduction. During Phase I, trained deer hounds were used to chase approximately 40 percent of the deer in the study area; the other 60 percent were used as a control. During Phase II, hounds and other dogs were used for chasing deer on the entire study area. John D. Gavitt, Robert L. Downing, Burd S. McGinnes
Pages 532-539 |
1974 |
Fat In The Mandibular Cavity as an Indicator of Condition in Deer Fat from the marrow tissue of the femuf (FMl) of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was found to be a poor standard with which to verify that the fat in the tissue of the mandibular cavity (Men was an indicator of condition. Fat from the tissue of the mandibular cavity (MCT) was found to separate into more distinguishable condition classes than was fat from the femur marrow tissue (FMT). MCT fat appeared to be utilized prior to the utilization of FMT fat. Percent MCT fat was found to vary between the right and left mandibles of the same animal. Robert G. Nichols, Michael R. Pelton
Pages 540-548 |
1974 |
Food Preferences of Deer in Louisiana Coastal Marshes Food preferences were determined for white-tailed deer (Odcoileus viginianus) in marshes and spoil arreas along the Louisiana coast by using feeding trials with captive deer and browse surveys. Fifty species were offered to 3 deer during the feeding trials. The species selected in largest amounts were Leploch/oa fascicularis, Scirpus olneyi, Iva annua, Echinochloa walteri, and Aeschynomene virginica. Preferred food plants during the browse surveys along marsh levees were Paspalum vaginatum, Mikania scandens, Bocapa monnieri, Panicum dichotomiflorum, and Leptochloa fascicularis. Charles A. Self, Robert H. Chabreck, Ted Joanen
Pages 548-556 |
1974 |
Browse Use By Deer in an East Texas Forest In an east Texas pine-hardwood forest moderately stocked with white-tailed deer. average utilization of 73 recorded species of browse was 18 percent. Fifteen to 20 species furnished most of the browse diet. On the average. laurel greenbrier was grazed most heavily. Although most deciduous species received heaviest use in spring and summer, many of them were also eaten in fall and winter. Heavy browsing during winter was confined primarily to evergreens.
Pages 557-562 |
1974 |
Rumen Contents of White-Tailed Deer: Comparing Local with Regional Samples The rumen contents of 384 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) collected seasonally from the Savannah River Project in South Carolina were compared with 184 rumen samples collected from six widely scattered areas throughout the Southeastern Coastal Plain. The two sets of rumina differed significantly in the volume of hardened woody twigs and fungi in the spring, dry leaves and fungi in the fall, and succulent twigs in the winter. Richard F. Harlow, Hewlette S. Crawford, David F. Urbston
Pages 562-567 |
1974 |
The Francis Marion Turkey Project
Pages 567-574 |
1974 |
Use of Wildlife Forage Clearings by White-Tailed Deer in the Arkansas Ozarks In a densely wooded, 243-ha enclosure in the Arkansas Ozarks deer ate sizable quantities of elban rye and Japanese honeysuckle planted on four clearings ranging in size from 0.69 to 2.31 ha. The number ofdeer observed. the amount of time spent feeding, and the amount of rye and honeysuckle eaten were all greatest during the fall and winter of a year when acorns were scarce. Some ladino clover, which was also planted on clearings, was eaten in the spring and summer. Charles Segelquist, Mitch Rogers
Pages 568-573 |
1974 |
Quality of Deer Forages from Eastern West Virginia During the period January through March 1973. white-tailed deer (Odcoileus virginianus) forage was analyzed for availability mineral content crude protein, and digestibility on Short Mountain Public Hunting Area. West Virginia. Carrying capacity was estimated using both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the available forage. On the basis of available dry matter 20.99 deer days per acre could be supported. This compares to 16.91 deer days per acre for digestible dry matter and 20.30 deer days per acre for crude protein. R. K. Towry. Jr., E. D. Michael, R. L. Reid, T. J. Allen
Pages 574-580 |
1974 |
A Technique for Delineating Optimum Deer Management Regions A technique is presented (or delineating regions for improved deer management and planning. A G-value algorithm which maximizes the ratio between inter-county variability and statewide-variability among deer kill at each stage of grouping, was used to delineate most similar counties. The criterion used for preliminary regionalization in Virginia was deer kill per potential huntable land area per number of hunting days. Six regions resulted with an effectiveness rating of 0.9253. Rudolph L. Graf, Robert H. Giles, Jr.
Pages 581-587 |
1974 |
Ovaries, anterior pituitary glands and pineal glands of 206 white-tailed deer collected from 6 areas of the Southeast over a 3 year period during the four seasons of the year were examined. Ovaries were sliced and all follicular and luteal structures ≥1 mm were measured and counted. Significant seasonal effects were found on ovarian weight, average diameter of the 2 largest fullicles, and anterior pituitary weights. Follicular development was greatest in the summer and fall seasons although large follicles were present on ovaries during all seasons.
Pages 587-594 |
1974 |
Populations and Reproductive Effort Among Bobwhites in Western Tennessee Relationships between pre-breeding (March) and post-breeding (December) populations, and certain characteristics of reproductive effort are described for a population of bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) in western Tennessee. Numbers of quail on the 2100-acre study area ranged from 681 to 1269 in March, and from 1007 to 1587 in December during the period December. 1966 to March, 1974. A total of 1571 nests were studied to determine such items as hatching rate of nests with eggs (23.0%) and clutch size (x = 11.9 eggs).
Pages 594-602 |
1974 |
Movement of Wild Turkey Hens in Relanon to Their Nests Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo osceola) on a study area in Florida nested 1.4 miles from winter release sites and 1.2 miles from their late winter range. Net distance and direction of movement of 12 hens from winter range to nesting sites was only about 0.2 miles west. The hens usually roosted within one mile of their nests during the laying period (mean distance 0.8). Renesting was within one mile (mean 0.8) ofthe first nest. Two hens radio-tracked during the laying period used 100 to 200 acres daily and usually roosted 'ess than one mile from their nests. Lovett E. Williams, Jr., David H. Austin, Tommie E. Peoples
Pages 602-622 |
1974 |
Eight eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Viellot) gobblers were captured on the Britt Research Area in McCormick County. South Carolina, during February and March of 1973. They were equipped with numbered leg bands. colored vinyl patagial streamers, and radio transmitters and were released at the sites of capture. The turkeys were located several times daily from the time of release until the primary breeding season ended in middle June using both telemetric and visual observations. William H. Fleming, Lloyd G. Webb
Pages 623-632 |
1974 |
Seasonal Fluctuations of a Bobwhite Population in the Georgia Piedmont A Bobwhite population in the Georgia Piedmont was censused periodically throughout the year by bird dogs, baiting and sightings, and trapping. The population (on a 100 acre basis) varied from alate summer high of I5.3 birds to the year later figure of 2.7 adult quail. Average weekly losses calculated for each different interval were: 1 September to 1 November-2.8 percent. 1 November to 1 April-2.0 percent, 1 April to 1 July-3.2 percent, and 1 July to 1 September-3.3 percent (summer figure for adult birds only).
Pages 632-638 |
1974 |
Mercury Accumulation in Native Mammals of the Southeast Mercury levels in tissues of mammals collected in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina were compared using hair mercury concentration as an index of total mercury content. Bobcats (Lynx rufus), raccoons (Procyon lotor), opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) and gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) from the Lower Coastal Plain of Georgia had higher mercury levels than specimens from the Upper Coastal Plain of Piedmont. The highest individual mercury levels in raccoons and bobcats occurred in specimens from the Georgia Lower Coastal Plain flatwoods. Peter M. Cumbie, James H. Jenkins
Pages 639-648 |
1974 |
Mercury Contamination in Georgia Rails Ninety-four specimens of rail, crab. and snail collected at ten separate locations along the Georgia Coast between October, 1971, and September, 1973 were analysed for residual mercury. Excessive concentrations of mercury were found in specimens of clapper rail, sora, and periwinkle snail, collected from the Brunswick and Savannah estuaries. Actual concentrations within these two river systems ranged from 0.11 ppm. in one sample of sora breast muscle to 16.8 ppm. in periwinkle snail tissue (fresh wet weight basis). Mercury contamination exceeded the F.D.A.
Pages 649-658 |
1974 |
Impact of Forest Plantations on North Florida Wildlife and Habitat Seasonal measures of the animal community and understory vegetation in nine year old slash pine plantations of three different levels of site preparation intensity are compared to mature natural stands. While there appear to be no significant differences in bird, mammal or arthropod populations between the three site preparation intensities of young plantation. responses were significantly different when mature stands were included in the comparison. Bird and small mammal abundance and diversity was much greater in the mature longleaf pine stand than any other habitat type. Larry D. Harris, L. D. White, J. E. Johnston, D. G. Milchunas
Pages 659-669 |
1974 |
Effects of Fee Hunting on a Private Land Wildlife Management Program An intensive multi-mode fee hunting program was installed in 1972 on 400,000 acres of land in Alabama owned by Gulf States Paper Corporation. A profit motive has resulted in the installation of an intensive wildlife management program designed to produce marketable hunting rights. Individual management plans have been written for 28 tracts of land involving over 60,000 acres. Cutting blocks have been reduced from an average of over I,000 acres to approximately 320 acres.
Pages 668-675 |
1974 |
A Plan of Forest Wildlife Habitat Evaluation and its Use by International Paper Company A habitat evaluation system which employs a systematic plot survey of each stand or unit of a tract to be evaluated is described. Scores are recorded by individual species and stand and/or tract values reflecting habitat quality are quantified. From these values and other observed information, a precise management plan can be written. James L. Buckner, Carroll J. Perkins
Pages 675-682 |
1974 |
The Role of Access in Hunter Use of Canaan Valley, West Virginia The purpose of this study was to determine how an area of low quality unmaintained access affects hunter satisfaction and use of the Canaan Valley in northeastern West Virginia. The 10,120 ha (25,000 acres) northern half of the valley supported a high, well distributed population of hunters during the 1973-74 hunting season. The valley Ooor, where access is the most difficult, supported 67 hunter days per 40.5 ha (100 acres) and the mountainside supported 63 hunter days per 40.5 ha (100 acres). Greg F. Sepik, Edwin D. Michael
Pages 682-686 |
1974 |
Effects of Intensive Forestry on Succession and Wildlife in Florida Sandhills Twelve 259 ha (1 mi2) plots of varying clearcut percentages were established in a randomi7.ed complete block design in the central Florida sandhills. Response variables ranged from understory vegetation changes to game species abundance over a period of 13 years. Pine (Pinus spp.) plantation establishment resulted in an increase (P < .05) in understory vegetation biomass and diversity. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginanus) seemed to prefer the partial plantation plots, but there was also a significant seasonal interaction between habitat type and deer usage.
Pages 686-693 |
1974 |
New Method of Establishing Bicolor Plantings on Private Lands This paper reports on a technique that appears successful for establishing bicolor or other perennial wildlife plots on private lands. During the winter of 1973-74, University of Tennessee personnel (with farmers' help) established a total of 127 perennial plots. 0.1 to 0.25 acres each with a tree planter on 19 private farms (average 6.7 plots per farm). A total of 35.2 man-days (excluding travel and farmers' time) was expended. This computes to be 0.28 man-day per plot or 1.85 man-days per farm.
Pages 694-697 |
1974 |
State of Georgia Animal Inportation Control A dissertation designed to support the assertion that stringent regulatory measures are necessary and justified to control the importation, transportation, possession, sale or release of any wildlife in the territorial limits of the State of Georgia. The growing tendency of the general public to seek out every source of wildlife on a world-wide basis, then attempt to convert these into household pets has caused this State to initiate aggressive action to regulate and control. It is the purpose oftbis paper to identify the procedure established to that end.
Pages 698-715 |
1974 |
Methodology and Behavioral Aspects of the Illegal Deer Hunter An interview study of one hundred and forty-eight admitted illegal deer hunters was conducted to determine the behavioral aspects and methodology of deer jacking activity. Through structured interviews given at individual and group sessions, the characteristics of the violator and the methods of operation were determined. The results have immediate law enforcement and information and education implications. Gary S. Sawhill, Robert Winkel
Pages 715-719 |
1974 |
Materials for a Workshop Hot Pursuit-Use of Force and Federal Court Decisions
Pages 720- |
1974 |
Aircraft Contributions Toward Game & Fish Law Enforcement Brantley Goodson, Mike Hogan, Donald E. Curtis, Dexter C. Harris, Thomas C. Lewis
Pages 721-729 |
1974 |
An Analysis of Deer Spotlighting in Virginia Michael A. Kaminsky, Dr. Robert H. Giles, Jr.
Pages 729-740 |
1974 |
A Proposal for a Regional Law Enforcement Research Program Despite the fact that approximately one third of the state wildlife agency personnel and funding is invested in law enforcement, scientific law enforcement studies are comparatively few. A regional program of law enforcement research, to be located at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, can coordinate projects, allow publication of results in many forms, avoid duplication of research projects, and answer more questions for less money in a joint effort than can individual states. Robert H. Giles, Jr., Arthur F. Ritter
Pages 740-745 |
1974 |
Pages 745-748 |
1974 |
Hunting Ethics--A Challenge to the Anti-Hunting Movement
Pages 748-751 |
1974 |
Hunter Safety Goes to School... a Classroom Challenge to the Anti Crowd
Pages 752-754 |
1974 |
Hunter Safety Goes to School (A Classroom Challenge to the Anti Crowd) Part II
Pages 754-755 |
1974 |
Conservationist's View of Today's Wildlife Law Enforcement
Pages 756-759 |
1974 |
Breakthrough in Training for Wildlife Law Enforcement Officers The wildlife officer, whether he be called a conservation officer, game protector, game and fish enforcement officer or simply game warden, must be a real professional. He needs most of the knowledge that a professional policeman needs. He also needs a working knowledge of many subjects peculiar to the out-of-doors. The breakthrough in training that has already occurred for police should be immediately extended to wildlife law enforcement officers. This. coupled with maintenance of high standards and increases in pay, should do much to professionalize this important occupation.
Pages 759-763 |
1974 |
Pages 764-766 |
1974 |
Uniform Computer Records and Reports
Pages 766-768 |
1974 |
Roadblock Junction - Arkansas State Highways 53 and 24 The following paper is a summary of the planning. operation, and results of the first highly successful roadblock used by the Enforcement Division of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. It was held at the junction of Arkansas Highways 53 and 24. about twelve miles south of Prescott, Arkansas, in Nevada County. This roadblock resulted in thirty·one arrests and $3,826.00 in fines and court costs for game and fish violations.
Pages 768-772 |
1974 |
An Opinion on the Potential for Applying Public Relations to the Regulatory Process This essay deals with the regulatory function common to all wildlife resource management agencies, and addresses this process specifically from the public relations aspect. It is hoped that these thoughts will stimulate thinking on the parts of both I &. E personnel and top-level administrators on how to better utilize the regulatory publication to put forward agency goals and programs.
Pages 772-776 |
1974 |
The Impact of the "Environmental Movement" Upon Hunting and Fishing Data available in the four national surveys of fishing and hunting (1955, 1960, 1965, 1970) were used to identify how participation in fishing and hunting has changed during the recent environmental movement. Participation in fishing has increased in nearly all segments of the population while participation in hunting has remained the same or may have decreased slightly. Participation in small game hunting decreased while participation in big game and waterfowl hunting increased. A decrease in participation in hunting was most notable in rural areas among farmers and farm laborers. Gerald H. Cross, David L. Groves
Pages 776-786 |
1974 |
Do We Need a Southeastern Information and Education Unit?
Pages 787-788 |
1974 |
Will Hunters Go Down Fighting with Both Hands Tied Behind Their Backs?
Pages 789-794 |
1974 |
A Note Regarding Regulation Booklets
Pages 794- |
1974 |
Meeting on the Humane Trap Issue
Pages 794-812 |
1974 |
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The Pros and Cons of Game and Fish Agencies Receiving General Revenue Funds Pages 3-6 |
1973 |
Game Commission's Staff, a Commissioner's View
Pages 6-11 |
1973 |
A study of the effects of forest management systems on deer carrying capacity in the Arkansas Ozarks has been established in two enclosures of 600 and 670 acres. Preliminary analysis indicated that cedar and pine-hardwood types produce more available forage than oak-hickory stands. Forage utilization appeared inversely related to size of the mast crop. Deer in the enclosures were estimated by driving, removed by trapping and hunting, and replaced with known numbers of deer. Hunter success was affected by weather and hunter ability but not by number of deer. Pages 9-13 |
1973 |