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Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv11penn (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Game Commission
Subjects: Game protection; Birds
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Game commission
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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28 their inestimable value to wild life, looks with disdain upon these forest weeds" and desires above all else to replace them with lumber trees Fortunatelv, most foresters in this country, not being of the ultra-scientific type appreciate the fact that wild life in our wooded areas has a great economic value and realize that the so-called forest weeds" are essential to its existence. Pennsylvania's State Game Lands and State Forests, more than one million acres of good hunting territory, and owned by the Commonwealth, are managed in a prac- tical way under the direction of trained foresters. There is little like- lihood that these men will ever sacrifice too large a proportion of game- food producing forest weeds" to make way for comparatively few additional lumber trees. Planting of shrubs, trees and vines which will produce food for game and small birds should be carried on extensively by sportsmen
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Fig. 21, Photograph by Game Commissioner Ross L. Leffler, McKeesport. AX EASILY rOXSTIirCTED BOB-WIllTE FOOD-SITELTER and lovers of wild life. The Board of Game Commissioners have been setting an example for a number of years through their Game Pro- tectors and Game Refuge Keepers, and now have planted most of the available areas under their control. They have no authority to plant on privately oymed or controlled lands, and, consequently, such plant- ing as may be carried on in the future must be done by sportsmen and other individuals. 29 COVER FOR GAME While considering th'e planting of food-bearing species, it is well also to give thought to the furnishing of more and better cover for game. The importance of cover must not be underestimated by for- esters, sportsmen, officers of the Game Commission or others. Coni- ferous or evergreen plantations made for reforestation purposes are wonderful havens of safety for pursued game, especially rutfed grouse. Under the thick canopy formed by the crowns of the planted trees grouse and other small game may obtain protection from hawks. It requires but a very few years for the small seedling trees ordinarily planted to reach a size sufficient to provide adequate and desirable cover for game. Also many birds and animals relish as food the seeds from cones of evergreen trees. A plantation of such species will fur- nish both cover and food for game as well as timber in later years. SUITABLE PLANTING STOCK Far better results will be obtained by planting nursery grown seedlings in preference to nuts or seeds. If nuts or seeds are planted or sown a large percentage of them will be eaten by rodents. Ex- perience has proved that the percentage of those which germinate is very low. Nuts and seeds of most species sown in a nursery may be expected to result in a good percentage of germination and to pro- duce good healthy seedlings. These seedlings, after one or two years in the nursery, should be planted in their permanent location. Many commercial nurseries are now raising for sale at reasonable prices, quite a variety of trees and shrubs which are desirable as producers of food for game and birds. Trees, shrubs, and other perennial plants, which produce nuts, fruits or seeds desirable as food for game and birds, are listed below. No effort is made to list them in the order of their importance since the value of each species is variable with locality and with different kinds of game. The common name of the species is given as well as the scientific name of the group to which it belongs, but no attempt is made to list all of the desirable species of each group, since such a list would be voluminous and unnecessary. The seeds or fruits of almost all species of one group are similarly edible.

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