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Conservation Reserve Program: Benefit for Grassland Birds in the Northern Plains

Ronald E. Reynolds, Terry Shaffer, John R. Sauer, and Bruce G. Peterjohn


Table of Contents

Tables and Figures

  • Table 1 -- Trends in abundance of grasslands-nesting nonwaterfowl birds for the periods 1966-86 and 1987-92 in North Dakota.
  • Table 2 -- Comparison of estimated nest success in Conservation Reserve Program cover and planted cover in 1992-93 with estimates for planted cover in 1980-84.
  • Figure 1 -- Locations of study sites in eastern South Dakota and North Dakota used to estimate duck nest success.

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Ronald E. Reynolds, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bismarck, North Dakota.
Terry Shaffer, National Biological Survey, Jamestown, North Dakota.
John R. Sauer and Bruce G. Peterjohn, National Biological Survey, Laurel, Maryland.


This resource is based on the following source (Northern Prairie Publication 0911):

Reynolds, Ronald E., Terry L. Shaffer, John R. Sauer, and Bruce G. Peterjohn.  1994.  Conservation Reserve Program: benefit for grassland birds in the Northern Plains.  Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 59:328-336.

This resource should be cited as:

Reynolds, Ronald E., Terry L. Shaffer, John R. Sauer, and Bruce G. Peterjohn.  1994.  Conservation Reserve Program: benefit for grassland birds in the Northern Plains.  Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 59:328-336.  Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online.  http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/benefit/index.htm (Version 01JUL03).


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