Abstract

A basic step in the management of a game species, such as the ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), is the development of inventory techniques which are comparatively simple in field application, reasonably accurate, and adaptable to large areas. The need for such a method of censusing pheasant populations has resulted in the widespread use of the fall roadside census technique developed by Bennett and Hendrickson (1938) in Iowa. The census has been used as an index for comparing relative abundance of pheasants from year to year. The recent evaluation of the fall road-

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