Illinois Waterfowl Harvest, Hunter Activity, and Attitudes Toward September Canada Goose \n Season, Canada Goose Harvest Monitoring System, and Dates for Hunting Seasons, 1997-98
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Abstract
The questionnaire for the 1997-98 Illinois Waterfowl Hunter Survey was sent to 3,856 randomly selected individuals who had registered with the National Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program in Illinois in 1997.When registering, all of these people indicated they had hunted waterfowl (ducks, geese, and/or coots) during the previous (1996-97) season.A total of 2,708 usable questionnaires was returned for a response rate of 70%.The respondents included 1,633 individuals who had purchased an Illinois Migratory Waterfowl Stamp in 1997, of which 1,451 (89%) hunted waterfowl in Illinois during the 1997-98 season.An estimated 54,715 hunters (4% less than in 1996) expended 881,030 days afield (5% more than in 1996) and harvested 401,236 waterfowl (7% more than in 1996).The ratio of duck hunters to goose hunters was 1.27:1 in 1997-98.During the September teal season, 12,819 hunters spent 32,179 days afield and harvested 22,005 teal (90% more than in 1996).On Youth Waterfowl Hunting Day, 3,163 adults took 4,322 youths afield, and 3,451 ducks and 387 coots were harvested.During the regular duck season (60 days), 42,587 hunters expended 514,934 days afield and harvested 291,161 ducks (2% more than in 1996) and 3,935 coots.During the early September Canada goose season-held in the Northeast, North, and Central Zones--11,765 hunters spent 34,988 days afield and harvested 11,443 Canada geese.During the regular goose season, 33,498 hunters devoted 295,107 days afield to harvest 61,282 Canada geese (7% less than in 1996), 5,941 snow/blue geese, and 1,631 other geese.The Canada goose harvest included 22,010 taken in the Southern Illinois Quota Zone, 2,118 taken in the Rend Lake Quota Zone, 6,720 taken in North Quota Zone Counties, and 11,443 taken in Central Quota Zone Counties, which collectively accounted for 69% of the statewide harvest.The estimated Canada goose harvest in the North and Central Quota Zone Counties was 15% less than the harvest recorded for these counties via the phone-in monitoring system.Among goose hunters, 5,628 (16.8%) hunted (or planned to 'Illinois Natural History Survey..
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".