Yield from an intensively hunted population of eastern fox squirrels

James S. Jordan; James S. Jordan

Yield from an intensively hunted population of eastern fox squirrels

Informally Refereed

Authors:

James S. Jordan, James S. Jordan

Year:

1971

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Res. Pap. NE-186. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 8 p.

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Abstract

Rates at which Eastern fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) are exploited in areas open to public hunting may be useful guides for designing fall hunting seasons that are biologically defensible. However, there is a question whether the harvest of fox squirrels by public hunting will even occasionally be great enough to challenge the limit allowed by the best designed biologically sound hunting season. There seems to be a population level of squirrels-as yet undefined-that strongly resists further exploitation of its members by hunting, thereby preventing overexploitation.

Citation

Jordan, James S. 1971. Yield from an intensively hunted population of eastern fox squirrels. Res. Pap. NE-186. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 8 p.