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Novel Technique For Removing Beaver Dams Using A Portable Winch System, Jimmy D. Taylor, Mark Robb, William Hodges, Scott Baras

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Dams and associated impoundments created by American beaver (Castor canadensis) are viewed as positive or negative depending on stakeholder values, their levels of acceptance, and timing. When levels of flooding at beaver dams exceed acceptance levels, immediate actions are required to reduce damage and protect human safety. In Virginia, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services (WS) often provides assistance to reduce flooding caused by beavers, especially where it affects transportation infrastructure. WS specialists choose from a variety of techniques to best address each unique situation. Until recently, moving damming material by hand or with binary explosives were the most common practices to provide immediate …

Applications Of Sensory Ecology For Wildlife Damage Management, Scott J. Werner, Shelagh T. Deliberto, Anna M. Mangan, Hailey E. Mclean

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Human-wildlife conflicts typically involve fundamental processes associated with the feeding behavior and/or the spatial behavior of wildlife. Thus, most human-wildlife conflicts arise from wildlife consuming products and/or wildlife occupying places valued by humans. For mammals, taste is the most important sensory cue for selecting nutrients and avoiding toxins. Most birds use both flavor (i.e. taste, odor, texture) and visual cues for their food selection process. We previously learned that an ultraviolet visual cue can enhance the repellency of an anthraquinone-based repellent for blackbirds, starlings, Canada geese and wild turkeys. Although the ultraviolet cue is not itself aversive, novel repellent formulations …

Rapid Sounder Removal: A Russell County, Alabama Wild Pig Control Project, Michael Foster, Rod Pinkston

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Rapid Sounder Removal™ is a time sensitive strategy where emphasis is placed on efficient removal of every sounder expanding at least 1,012 ha within 30 days of operation. The mission is to quickly and efficiently remove 100% of each individual sounder, on multiple properties, in the shortest time possible. Several Integrated Wild Pig Control strategies can be implemented in unison to eliminate wild pig escapes, education, and reproduction from large tracts of land at one time. This concept should be applied by all adjacent landowners to remove entire feral pig populations from a county, water conservation district, or wildlife management …

Evaluation Of Scents Attractants For Baiting Wild Pigs, Shannon M. Lambert, Mark D. Smith, Bryan K. Williams, Dana K. Johnson

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Lethal removal by trapping is one of the most cost- and time-effective means for managing wild pigs (Sus scrofa). Scent attractants are frequently used to lure wild pigs to camera stations for scouting or monitoring wild pig populations or at trap sites to reduce the amount of time for pigs to locate the trap. However, the effectiveness of scents to attract and increase wild pig visitation to camera stations or traps is debatable. Therefore, our objective was to determine if wild pigs visited camera stations sooner and more frequently when scents were used in addition to whole kernel corn. We …

Phase 2 Wildlife Management - Addressing Invasive And Overabundant Wildlife: The White-Tailed Deer Continuum And Invasive Wild Pig Example, Kurt Vercauteren, Amy Davis, Kim Pepin

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Wildlife managers in many countries around the world are facing similar challenges, which include: a lack of means to address invasive species and locally overabundant native species issues particularly in the face of declining fiscal resources, reduced capacity to achieve management goals, and a need to garner public support in the wake of changing societal values and increasing human populations. Meeting these challenges requires building off the profession’s successes and developing new paradigms and strategies to curtail the negative impacts invasive and overabundant species are having on our natural resources. Like our predecessors in conservation succeeded in developing our profession …

Examination Of The Spatial Distribution Of Trapping Success On A Wild Pig Removal Cooperative In Alabama, Mark D. Smith, Dana K. Johnson, Kenneth S. Gruver, Frank Boyd

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

As wild pig removal programs continue throughout the United States, few programs have provided detailed information regarding landscape features, property ownership, and management activities that may impact trapping success. Whereas a greater amount of research is being conducted to understand the spatial ecology of wild pigs, there still exists a paucity of information with regards to wild pig movements which likely hampers removal efforts. Likewise, no studies have examined landscape characteristics that may impact local trapping success. Therefore, we examined the spatial distribution of trapping success of wild pigs on a 1,821 ha removal cooperative of three private landowners in …

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Activities In Illinois To Reduce Canada Goose Impacts On Lake Michigan, Hannah E. O'Malley, Michelle L. Bloomquist, Craig K. Pullins, Scott F. Beckerman, Richard M. Engeman

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), led by the Environmental Protection Agency, was created in 2010 to address threats to the Great Lakes region. A convenient year-round water source and abundant food source of managed turf grass has resulted in an overabundance of Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) in Chicago City Parks within the watershed of Lake Michigan. The anthropogenic mediated benefit to goose populations and their associated damages qualifies Canada geese in Chicago as native invaders-where a native species is human induced to behave similar to invasive species. The objective of this project is to provide a long-term strategy to …

Is Razor-Wire An Effective Deterrent For Birds Perching On Security Fences At Airports?, David L. Bergman, Brian E. Washburn

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Wildlife-aircraft collisions (wildlife strikes) pose a serious risk to aircraft and cost civil aviation in the United States an estimated $957 million annually. Blackbirds and doves in particular have caused some of the most devastating aircraft accidents related to wildlife strikes in the United States and Europe. Birds perching on security fences and other structures are a problem at airports and other locations where birds are not desired. Reduction of available perching sites should make airports less attractive to these species and thus reduce the risk of damaging wildlife strikes. We conducted a series of experiments to determine if 3 …

Busy Being Born : Embracing Change In Wildlife Damage Management, Janet L. Bucknall

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

In 1965, Bob Dylan released a song called “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”, and it contained one of the decade’s most memorable lyrics – “He not busy being born is busy dying” (Dylan 1965). At the same time sobering and hopeful, the lyrics present purposeful rebirth as the salve for what otherwise would do us in. Wildlife damage management as a profession has been busy being born for decades. The work is bound to human values and communities, social and political priorities, scientific advancements, and landscape and wildlife population changes. Our profession cannot help but evolve.

Pseudorabies Virus Shedding And Antibody Production In Invasive Wild Pigs In California, Samantha M. Wisely, Katherine A. Sayler, Brandon Parker, Rebecca Mihalco, Eric Covington

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Pseudorabies virus (PrV) is a herpesvirus endemic in invasive wild pigs in the United States. The virus has the potential to spill over into domestic herds and wildlife causing extensive morbidity and mortality. We surveyed 35 wild pigs from Kern County, California for evidence of exposure to PrV using serological analysis and for viral shedding using quantitative PCR. All 29 individuals that had sufficient sera to screen for antibody production via serological assay were positive. Two of 35 individuals were found to be shedding virus via genital mucosa. An additional 5 individuals were suspected to be shedding virus either in …

Challenges And Opportunities For The Wildlife Damage Management Profession In The Face Of Expanding Wildlife Populations : An Extension Perspective, Roger A. Baldwin

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Many wildlife populations are expanding both their range and population densities given effective management practices. This wildlife expansion, combined with concomitant human expansion, has led to increased human-wildlife conflict in many parts of North America. Managing these conflicts has become more difficult given increased regulation on many management tools, leading to a need for new, effective strategies for mitigating these conflict situations, as well as a clearer understanding of how current management practices influence both target and non-target wildlife. A greater and more focused effort on education and outreach is needed to clearly inform all parties about true versus perceived …

Proceedings Of The Seventeenth Wildlife Damage Management Conference, Orange Beach, Al, February 26-March 1, 2017, Dana J. Morin, Michael J. Cherry

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

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Illinois & Indiana Eco-Sites & Dnr Programs In The Watershed, Bob Caveny

Kankakee River Watershed Conference

Author Keywords:

Invasives control, IDNR, Private lands, Watersheds