Hunting as a Limitation to Michigan Pheasant Populations

Abstract

It is a common conception among laymen, and also among game technicians, that hunting is an important limitation to the numbers of practically all small game animals. The gun is almost universally accepted to have been the cause of reducing or destroying many species in the past, and wherever a game scarcity occurs pressure immediately develops for measures to mitigate the effectiveness of the hunter. From all sides writers and organizational resolutions are warning the sportsman that he must stop short of the limit kill to preserve seed stock and reminding him that if he would shoot creatures off the land then he