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Series: 9/25/10-5: Research Areas and Projects
View digitized contents of this series. Most of the areas and projects in this series represent ongoing research efforts
instituted by Mr. Leopold, usually in cooperation with others, and carried on under his
supervision by a succession of graduate students. Mr. Leopold's primary emphasis with
his students was on field work and the capacity to carry a research project through to
publication, even at the masters level. His main focus during the 1930s was on applied
ecology, the development of actual techniques and practices of game management, and
demonstration on the land -- hence these research areas, on which he delegated actual
land management responsibilities to his more advanced students. The Riley and Faville
Grove areas served, in addition, as demonstration areas in farm game management
organization. The bulk of the material pertains to research accomplished before World War II forced
curtailment. Included are AL's personal files of correspondence and records on the
various areas and projects; area atlases containing reports, data, correspondence, and
other records of historical value; such actual student research notes, manuscripts, and
correspondence as were retained in Mr. Leopold's files; and banding records coordinated
through the chair and later the department. Major categories include the University of Wisconsin Arboretum (001), Faville Grove
(002-004), Prairie du Sac (005), Riley (006), Prairie Chicken Investigations (007-009),
and general banding (010). See also files for Delta (9/25/10-2, Box 003) and working
papers for AL's own research manuscripts (9/25/10-6, Boxes 007-008, 012-013). Other
related materials may be found scattered throughout the species and subject files, the
Wisconsin county files, and in a few organization folders, such as Pelee Island and US
Soil Erosion Service -- Coon Valley.
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box 001
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Research Areas and Projects: University of Wisconsin Arboretum
View digitized contents of this box. : AL's appointment to the chair of game management created by WARF in 1933 provided
for part of his time to be spent as director of all research on the newly
established University of Wisconsin Arboretum. In 1940, John Curtis became director
of plant research and Leopold became director of animal research. In addition to the
Arboretum papers from AL's own files in this box, see the extensive files of the
Arboretum itself (Record Group 38, UW-Madison Archives.)
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box 001
folder 001
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Arboretum, Administration and Personnel
View digitized contents of this folder. Documents are concerned with administrative and personnel matters. Included are
minutes of Arboretum Committee meetings, correspondence with members of the
committee and others concerning general Arboretum matters, and personnel
correspondence, especially regarding students of AL who worked on the area. AL
must have had a similar file for the period 1933-1938, but it was not among his
materials as accessioned. 125 items, 1938-1948
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box 001
folder 002
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University Arboretum Wild Life Management Plan
View digitized contents of this folder. Included is the University Arboretum Wild Life Management Plan, a 15-page mimeo
document with added maps, inventory lists, and appendices, prepared by AL as
Research Director. 25 October 1933
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box 001
folder 003a
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Arboretum, Research and Technical, 1933-1939
View digitized contents of this folder. Box 001, Folders 003 through 005 contain correspondence, memos, project
proposals, data, and reports concerning ecology, habitat management, and wildlife
research supervised by AL. Included are materials on food patch experiments,
1934-1936, 1939; plantings on prairie, marsh, etc.; soil survey and ecology (S. A.
Wilde); game census reports; pheasant mobility and survival studies; birds of the
Arboretum, 1934-1941 (Anderson, Feeney, Sperry, Catenhausen); raptor observations,
1937-1938 (Feeney); shore-bird census, June 1939 (Winkler, Meyer, Glassberg);
miscellaneous bird projects on robin, blackbird, wren, mallard, wood duck, etc.;
spring mammal trapping study; plant succession, 1942; conversion of worn-out
woodlots to red cedar, 1942; oak reproduction, 1943-1944; forestry research, 1945;
flora of Ho-ne-um [sic] Pond, 1943 (Breitenbach); propagation of prairie flora
(McCabe); browse data from the McCabe four oak plots, May 1944 (Schenck);
cottontail projects, 1945 (Hale); United States Biological Survey plans, 1935; AL
draft for proposed leaflet, 1941; research plan for land animals, 1948 (AL and
Emlen); wildlife bibliography; and other miscellaneous materials. In June 2007 this folder was divided for better preservation of physical
contents. 1933-1936
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box 001
folder 003b
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box 001
folder 004a
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box 001
folder 004b
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box 001
folder 005a
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box 001
folder 005b
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box 001
folder 006
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box 002
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Research Areas & Projects: Faville Grove, General
View digitized contents of this box. : Contains materials related to the Faville Grove Wildlife Area. In 1934 AL was
instrumental in establishing this wildlife area, comprised of a group of cooperating
farms in Waterloo Township (Jefferson County). It was named in honor of Stoughton W.
Faville (1852-1951), a pioneer farmer and naturalist who encouraged and aided
University of Wisconsin research efforts on the area. Among students who worked on
the area were Judson Kempton, Ralph Conway, Arthur Hawkins, Hilbert Siegler, I. O.
Buss, Lyle Sowls, C. T. Black, and R. A. McCabe. Student materials (Boxes 003-004)
bulk largest for the years 1936-1938, when Arthur Hawkins was area manager. Contents
and labels of folders are as found.
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box 002
folder 001
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Faville Grove Atlas
View digitized contents of this folder. This binder contains clippings, notes, reports, and publications, with sections
as follows: general area business, hunting regulations adopted by members,
pheasant kill records, annual pheasant drives, census material, Faville Grove mast
ice study, ice breakup in Rock Lake, area projects, and Faville Grove
reprints. 1933-1942f
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box 002
folder 002
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Material from Old Faville Grove Atlas
View digitized contents of this folder. Included are large scrapbook pages with clippings, photographs and other
historical records, as well as some 1936 area survey maps. 16 pp, 1934-1937
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box 002
folder 003
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Faville Grove Area, to July 1940
View digitized contents of this folder. Included are AL's correspondence with cooperators and students at Faville Grove,
the Conservation Department, and others; minutes of annual meetings and other
documents; and research notes, data, and manuscripts. 1935-1940
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box 002
folder 004
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Faville Grove Area, July 1940-
View digitized contents of this folder. Letters largely concern the Faville Prairie Preserve, deeded to University of
Wisconsin by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Miles in 1945. 1940-1947f
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box 002
folder 005
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Faville Grove Prairie Preserve
View digitized contents of this folder. Materials relate to administration of the preserve: letters to E.B. Fred, Otto
Lange, and [William] Gallistel, along with drafts of administrative plans and a
copy of Norman Fassett's "Nature Areas for Research Reserves," donated by Emily
Earley in 1985. 7 letters, misc., 1946-1948
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box 002
folder 006
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Faville Grove Plans and Records
View digitized contents of this folder. Includes correspondence of AL and student Hawkins with various cooperators in the
Faville Grove work, and a few miscellaneous items. 50 letters, misc., 1935-1938
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box 002
folder 007
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box 002
folder 008
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Faville Grove -- Mrs. Blaine
View digitized contents of this folder. Correspondence, principally with Robert Ferry and P.E. McNall, concerns an
unsuccessful attempt to get a donor to fund a purchase, lease, and 5-year
management program in the Faville Grove area. Also included are air photos,
several drawings, and drafts of a proposal, possibly prepared by AL. 50 letters, misc., 1938-1940
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box 003
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Faville Grove, Pheasant & Hun[garian Partridge] Studies
View digitized contents of this box. : Contents include student field notebooks and other data in folders, the titles of
which adequately indicate their contents.
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box 003
folder 001
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box 003
folder 002
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box 003
folder 003
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folder 006
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box 003
folder 007
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folder 008
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folder 009
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folder 010
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folder 011
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folder 012
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folder 013
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folder 014
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folder 015
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folder 016
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folder 017
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box 004
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Research Areas & Projects: Faville Grove, Miscellaneous
Records
View digitized contents of this box. : Contents include mostly student field notebooks and other data in folders, the
titles of which adequately indicate their contents.
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box 004
folder 001
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folder 002
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folder 004
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folder 006
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box 004
folder 007
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box 004
folder 008
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box 004
folder 009
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folder 010
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box 004
folder 011
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box 004
folder 012
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folder 013
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folder 014
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folder 015
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folder 016
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folder 017
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folder 018
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folder 019
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folder 020
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folder 021
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folder 022
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folder 023
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folder 024
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folder 025
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folder 026
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folder 027
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folder 028
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box 005
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Research Areas & Projects: Prairie du Sac
View digitized contents of this box. : Paul L. Errington began research at Prairie du Sac, including an annual wildlife
census and studies of the northern bobwhite quail, in 1929 as a SAAMI fellow at the
University of Wisconsin (under AL's general supervision, but for a Ph.D. in 1932
under Professor George Wagner). See the "Bobwhite" folder (9/25/10-4 002 004) for a
few letters and items pertaining to Errington's early studies. The wildlife censuses
were continued after 1932 by a local woodsman, Albert Gastrow, under the joint
supervision of AL and Errington; several graduate students also worked on the area
at times. See also materials relating to a proposed joint manuscript by AL and
Errington analyzing the results of the censuses (9/25/10-6, Box 013).
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box 005
folder 001
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Prairie du Sac Correspondence and Notes
View digitized contents of this folder. Includes correspondence, principally with Paul Errington, concerning data and
research manuscripts; Albert Gastrow's logs of field observations, typed from his
notebooks (the notebooks themselves have not been found); field data, charts,
graphs, and reports by AL, Errington, and various other researchers in the area;
and a few manuscript drafts. These materials, bound after AL's death, cover the
same years as items in Folder 002 below, but may originally have been included in
an atlas. Bound volume, 1936-1948
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box 005
folder 002
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Prairie du Sac Area
View digitized contents of this folder. AL's project file contains administrative correspondence, financial requests,
research reports, and census data. Correspondence with Errington, Gastrow, various
Wisconsin Conservation Department men, Russell Turk, and students Cyril Kabat and
Donald Thompson are also included. 165 items, 1937-1948
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box 005
folder 003
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Prairie du Sac, Animal Pyramid Project (Harold Hanson), 1940-1943
View digitized contents of this folder. : Contains material about the Animal Pyramid Project: research requests and
reports, charts, graphs, and supporting data compiled by AL, 1927-1942; and a few
of Harold Hanson's notes.
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box 005
folder 004
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Prairie du Sac, Winter Bird Census (Harold Hansen)
View digitized contents of this folder. : The year of the Winter Bird Census data (Harold Hansen again) is not certain, but
was probably 1941-1942.
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box 006
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Research Areas & Projects: Riley
View digitized contents of this box. The Riley Game Cooperative was established in 1931, largely through the efforts of
AL and R. J. Paulson, a farmer near Riley in western Dane County, and was licensed
as a shooting preserve. The group consisted of about 11 farm members who furnished
land and grain and 5 town members (of whom AL was "spokesman") who furnished
operating funds. Graduate students assigned to the area, 1936-1939, were Ellwood
Moore, H. Albert Hochbaum, Lyle Sowls, and Bruce Stollberg. Some of the items in this box, including the Atlas, were on loan to the Department
of Wildlife Ecology as of July 2007. These items were made available for
digitization but have yet to be reaccessioned in the UW-Madison Archives.
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box 006
folder 001
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Riley Game Cooperative (Atlas)
View digitized contents of this folder. Included are memos to members, reports, proposed and final rules, chronologies of
management activities, financial statements, pheasant release records, kill
records, planting and winter feeding records, observations and notes, and
newsletters 1939-48. Binder, 125 items, 1931-1948
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box 006
folder 002
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box 006
folder 003
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Riley Area, July 1938 to June 1940
View digitized contents of this folder. : The original, printed finding aid did not list a folder 003. During the
reorganization of the papers for the digitization project in 2007-08 a new folder
003 was created.
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box 006
folder 004
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Riley Area, July 1940-
View digitized contents of this folder. These are AL's files of correspondence and records concerning the status of Riley
under Wisconsin's shooting preserve law, raising and releasing of pheasants, food
and cover plantings, finances, meetings and reports to members, banding, and
student research. 150 items, 1940-1948
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box 006
folder 005
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box 006
folder 006
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Riley Game Cooperative (Roark?)
This may have been R.J. Roark's file, consisting of correspondence, memos, and
newsletters. Roark was apparently "spokesman" for town members in Fall 1935 while
AL was in Germany and from 1950-53, after AL's death.
The Roark folder is missing as of 2007.
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box 007
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Research Areas and Projects: Prairie Chicken Investigations,
1930-1935
View digitized contents of this box. Materials relate to prairie chickens in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Prairie Chicken
Investigations were begun by Dr. A.O. Gross for the Wisconsin Conservation
Department in 1928. In 1930, F.J.W. Schmidt acted as Dr. Gross's assistant, then
took charge and was carried by WCD until May 1933, when he was appointed to a
research assistantship supported by the chair of game management at the University
of Wisconsin. On 8 Aug. 1935 Schmidt, one of AL's first Ph.D. candidates and an
ecologist of outstanding promise, was killed in a fire which also destroyed his
notes, photographs, and manuscripts, about 8 of which he was readying for
publication. Box 007 contains what remains of Schmidt's work, consisting mostly of early reports
and notes, and early versions of some of the papers, as well as a few manuscripts on
miscellaneous topics not directly related to the prairie chicken investigations. Folders 005 through 011 hold Schmidt's drafts, notes, and correspondence on a
variety of topics. Folders 012 through 019 hold Schmidt's correspondence and notes
covering selected subjects related to game birds, but no manuscripts.
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box 007
folder 001
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folder 002
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folder 003
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Winter Food Manuscript
View digitized contents of this folder. : Schmidt's Winter Food manuscript had been ready for publication prior to his
death and was published in 1936. Also included is an obituary of Schmidt by AL,
notes, early drafts of the manuscript, and correspondence pertaining both to
Schmidt and to AL.
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box 007
folder 004
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Unpublished Manuscripts
View digitized contents of this folder. 1931-1935 Most of these manuscripts by Schmidt had been in the WCD files and are extra
copies of some of the manuscripts in the folders that follow.
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box 007
folder 005
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folder 006
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folder 007
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folder 008
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folder 009
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folder 010
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folder 011
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folder 012
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folder 013
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folder 014
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folder 015
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folder 017
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folder 018
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folder 019
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box 008
folder 001
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Prairie Chicken Distribution Questionnaires
View digitized contents of this folder. : Folders 001 and 002 contain questionnaires and related correspondence, 1929,
apparently sent by W.B. Grange, WCD Superintendent of Game, but included with the
Schmidt papers.
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box 008
folder 002
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folder 003
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folder 004
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box 008
folder 005
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Prairie Chicken Banding, 1936-1937
View digitized contents of this folder. For approximately one year after Schmidt's death, AL coordinated the prairie
chicken investigations (at first called the Lake States Banding Cooperative and
later renamed the Prairie Grouse Cooperative). AL's student F.N. Hamerstrom, Jr.,
eventually took over the prairie chicken work. (More of Fred and Frances
Hamerstrom's materials can be found in Box 009.) During this time period much Wisconsin game bird banding was done through the
Central Wisconsin Game Project (Resettlement Administration).
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box 008
folder 006a
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Prairie Chicken Banding, 1937-1938
View digitized contents of this folder. Contains banding reports, tables, summaries, maps, and the Sharptailed Grouse
Report. In July 2007 folder 006 was divided for the better preservation of physical
contents; banding data is found in 006a and correspondence in 006b.
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box 008
folder 006b
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folder 001
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folder 003
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Banding Co-op Progress Reports, 1938-1942
View digitized contents of this folder. : Miscellaneous materials are included. Fred Hamerstrom is the likely author of the
Lake States Banding Co-op progress reports found here. Also included are
Hamerstrom's correspondence, 1941-43, and a typed manuscript entitled "Progress
Report of the Prairie Grouse Co-op," dated 28 Dec. 1942, with a 46-page appendix
on traps (updating the 1937 manual).
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box 009
folder 004
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Prairie Chicken Study -- General
View digitized contents of this folder. : This is AL's file of correspondence, reports, and requests for funds in regard to
the Prairie Chicken Study. Fred and Frances Hamerstrom were Leopold's students
until 1940 (Fred, Ph.D.; Frances, M.S.), when they moved to the George Reserve in
Michigan. They returned to Wisconsin for a few months each spring to continue the
prairie chicken investigations, and came back full-time after the war.
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box 010
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Research Areas & Projects: General Banding
View digitized contents of this box. : Included here are AL's own files of data and correspondence on banding done by
students and cooperators.
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box 010
folder 001
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box 010
folder 002
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box 010
folder 003
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Material Removed from Banding Book, 1947
View digitized contents of this folder. These are AL's files of data and correspondence on banding done by students and
cooperators on species other than prairie chicken. Pheasant records bulk
large. 1937-1946
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box 010
folder 004
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box 010
folder 005
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folder 006
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folder 007
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Bird Banding Records, 1936-1941
View digitized contents of this folder. Includes records of the daily trapping of pheasants in the University of
Wisconsin Arboretum. Also included is a notebook, "Pheasant Trapping Nevin Fish Hatcher 1944-45," by
Maurice J. Babb. 1936-1941, 1944-1945
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folder 008
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folder 009
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