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Prevention Of Hydatid Disease, Kerry A. Rood, Emma Jane Kelly

All Current Publications

This publication provides details for preventing hydatid disease in dogs and sheep.

Balancing The Budget, Fitting It All In, Melanie Jewkes

All Current Publications

How do I make a budget that actually works for me and my family? This packet with walk you through setting up a budget step-by-step, and includes fool-proof tips to make your budget work for you.

Flight Experiments On The Effects Of Contamination On Electron Emission Of Materials, John R. Dennison, Joshua L. Hodges, Jeff Duce, Amberly Evans

All Physics Faculty Publications

We report on a study of the effects of prolonged exposure to the space environment and of chargeenhanced contamination on the electron emission and resistivity of spacecraft materials. The State of Utah Space Environment & Contamination Study (SUSpECS) was deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) in March 2008 onboard the MISSE-6 payload during STS-123. The Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE-6) program is designed to characterize the performance of candidate new space materials over the course of its ~17 month exposure to the LEO environment, with a target return date of August 2009 on STS-127. Approximately 165 samples are …

Cpd Conference-Goers Camp To Cut Costs, Center For Persons With Disabilities

Blog Posts

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Managing Your Horse On A Tight Budget, Patricia Evans

All Current Publications

This publication gives tips to giving your horse the proper love and care it needs while sticking to a budget.

Hunger In Utah, Center For Persons With Disabilities

Blog Posts

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18th Biennial Cheese Industry Conference, Various Authors

Cheese Industry Conference

No abstract provided.

Long-Term Services And Supports Are Essential, Center For Persons With Disabilities

Blog Posts

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Validation Of Novel Indirect Calorimetry System Based On Luminescence Quenching On-Airway Oxygen Sensor, Tammy Anderson, Dwayne Westenskow

Utah Space Grant Consortium

Metabolic gas exchange monitors are frequently used in the intensive care unit to study the oxygen kinetics and appraise the nutritional requirements for acutely ill patients. In a method known as indirect calorimetry, energy expenditure information is obtained non-invasively by measuring the respiratory gases under resting conditions.1-3 A modified Weir equation relates the oxygen consumption (VO2) and the carbon dioxide production (VCO2) to the caloric burn rate.4 The resting energy expenditure (REE) represents approximately 70% of the total energy expenditure (TEE). Critical illness has been shown to alter metabolic rate and influence VO2. Inflammation, sepsis, seizures, and weaning from ventilation …

Measurement Of Functional Residual Capacity Of The Lung By Nitrogen Washout, Carbon Dioxide Rebreathing And Body Plethysmography In Healthy Volunteers, Lara Brewer, Joseph Orr

Utah Space Grant Consortium

Background: We measured Functional Residual Capacity (FRC) of the lungs with three methods in healthy volunteers. The three techniques included a CO₂ partial rebreathing technique, nitrogen washout technique, and the reference technique for ambulatory patients, body plethysmography.

Materials and Methods: After granting consent to an IRB-approved protocol, each of the 20 healthy volunteers participated in FRC measurement by three methods, including body plethysmography, carbon dioxide (CO₂) rebreathing, and nitrogen washout. Gas concentration and volume data were collected from the distal side of a mouthpiece during spontaneous ventilation for the washout and rebreathing measurements. The FRC was measured …

Wildlife Services And The New Administration, William H. Clay

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

To understand what can be expected from President Obama and the new Administration, we can look at past behavior. As a Senator, Obama served on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee showing great interest in environmental issues. He believes that federally-funded scientific research should play an important role in advancing science and technology. Moreover, President Obama has declared that decisions in his Administration will be made based on science and not politics. However, the biggest change from the new Administration is emphasis on making the government work more efficiently and at a reduced cost. During the next 4 years, …

Current Trends And The Future Of Private Sector Nuisance Wildlife Control, Kevin Clark

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Private sector vertebrate control continually interacts with many parties-all with a genuine interest in wildlife, and thus, the industry is always changing. In recent years, people expressed a desire for more humane treatment of animals and environmentally responsible control methods. The industry has also focused on vertebrates besides birds and rodents and is working to have the opportunity to handle species that are currently excluded from permit systems in some states. In the 1990s, there was rapid growth of private sector wildlife control businesses across the U.S., and increasingly, pest control companies added wildlife services in response to customer demands. …

Viral Disease Surveillance In Select Wildlife Populations In Mississippi, Amanda R. Deese, Richard B. Minnis

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Raccoons and opossums are quickly becoming a common sight in urban areas, providing a higher risk of human exposure to zoonotic pathogens. Feral swine are also becoming more common and problematic for many. We conducted serological surveys for avian influenza (AI), West Nile virus (WNV), rabies virus (RV), and canine distemper virus (CDV) in raccoons (n=119), opossums (n=126), and feral swine (n=105) in two regions of Mississippi. Raccoons had antibodies to all four viruses, while feral swine had antibody responses to WNV and opossums exhibited responses to WNV and RV. Active wildlife disease surveillance is a vital aspect of wildlife …

Classical Swine Fever Surveillance In Feral Swine, Seth R. Swafford, Brandon S. Schmit, Kerri Pedersen, Mark W. Lutman, Thomas J. Deliberto

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Diseases such as classical swine fever (CSF) and foot-and-mouth disease have been eradicated in the United States, but possible reintroductions merit the development of an enhanced surveillance system. Important foreign animal or transboundary diseases like these pose a significant risk to the health of wildlife and livestock in the United States. Wildlife Services (WS) performs surveillance in targeted feral swine (Sus scrofa) populations as part of a comprehensive United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service effort to demonstrate disease-free status in our nation's livestock and wildlife. Surveillance is based on risk assessments which identify …

Changing Attitudes, Troubled Times: Lessons Learned From Protected Species Management In Urban Environments, Sean P. Guinan

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The United States is becoming increasingly urbanized, with nearly 80% of the American population currently residing in urban centers. This trend in human settlement patterns away from rural areas has coincided with a shift in human values and perceptions regarding the natural environment. Urban wildlife managers are therefore presented with unique challenges not experienced by managers of times past and are left having to blend principles of wildlife ecology within a changed ethical and sociological context. Standard wildlife management practices may not be appropriate for this shifting paradigm and there is an ever-increasing need for innovative and collaborative efforts that …

Evolving Bird Management Research At The Usda Wildlife Service's National Wildlife Research Center, Mark E. Tobin

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

As the methods-development arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services program, the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) is charged with developing tools and information for protecting agriculture, human health and safety, and property from problems caused by wildlife, including birds. Increasingly the NWRC is being asked to provide basic ecological information on the population status of various bird species, and its role is expanding from a reactive one of providing management options to that of predicting long-term implications of various management actions. This paper describes several areas of research by NWRC scientists to address population-level questions in support …

Dogs Gone Wild: Feral Dog Damage In The United States, David L. Bergman, Stewart W. Breck, Scott C. Bender

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Feral dogs have been documented in all 50 states and estimates of damage in the U.S. from these animals amount to >$620 million annually. In Texas alone, it is estimated that over $5 million in damage to livestock annually can be attributed to feral dogs. We reviewed national statistics on feral dog damage reported to USDA, APHIS, Wildlife Services for a 10-year period from 1997 through 2006. Damage by feral dogs crossed multiple resource categories (e.g., agriculture, natural resources); some examples of damage include killing and affecting the behavior and habitat use of native wildlife; killing and maiming livestock; and …

Vole Problems, Management Options, And Research Needs In The United States, Gary W. Witmer, Nathan P. Snow, L. Humberg, T. Salmon

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Voles (Microtus spp.) are ubiquitous to the northern hemisphere. Numerous species occur in North America and several species cause significant damage of various types: food crops, livestock forage production (e.g., alfalfa), nursery trees, reforestation, orchards, rangeland forage, and damage to lawns, golf courses and ground cover. Much research has been conducted with voles and a number of management options have been developed, including habitat manipulation, rodenticides, traps, repellents, barriers, supplemental feeding, and increased natural predation. However, significant damage still occurs because voles are not easily managed. Voles are small and secretive, prolific, active year-round, able to exploit refugia, and …

Human Dimensions Of Invasive Vertebrate Species Management, Gary W. Witmer, G. M. Keirn, N. Hawley, C. Martin, J. K. Reaser

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Invasive vertebrate species can cause substantial damage to natural resources, property, crops, livestock, and pose a disease hazard to humans, native wildlife and domestic animals. Numerous island species have become extinct or are threatened with extinction from invasive species. The high rate of invasive species introductions continues because of the large volumes of world trade and international travel. Humans are often responsible for introductions, but are also the key to their prevention, management, and eradication. However, many of the values and perceptions of invasive species vary among humans. Hence, the prevention and control of invasive vertebrates often requires adjusting human …

Evaluation Of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate As A Blackbird Wetting Agent, Robert W. Byrd, John L. Cummings, Shelagh K. Tupper, John D. Eisemann

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

New and improved strategies are needed for managing overabundant blackbird (Icteridae spp.) populations in some areas of the United States. From 2004 to 2007, we evaluated sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) as a wetting agent during controlled outdoor cage and flight pen tests in Colorado and small-scale field tests at urban blackbird roosts in Missouri. In the outdoor cage tests (ambient temperature -5 to 2° C), mortality of male red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) sprayed with 1, 2, and 5 ml of SLS on the back feathers only, on the breast feathers only, or on both breast and …

An Overview Of Double-Crested Cormorant Management To Protect Natural Resources In Michigan: The First Five Years (2004-2008), Peter H. Butchko, Mark Ebener

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Michigan, like other Great Lakes states, experienced a tremendous increase of double-crested cormorants (DCCO) in the 1990s that prompted substantial concern about their impacts on natural resources such as sport fish, nesting birds and vegetation. To address these issues, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the Public Resource Depredation Order (PRDO) in November 2003 that created a new authority for managing DCCO damage. In this overview, we provide a summary of the collective implementation of the new authority by two agencies, i.e., USDA, Wildlife Services (WS) and five Native American governments for the first five years of PRDO in …

An Overview Of Historical Beaver Management In Arizona, Christopher D. Carrillo, David L. Bergman, Jimmy Taylor, Dale Nolte, Patrick Viehoever, Mike Disney

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

In the mid-1820s, Anglo-American fur trappers, known as "mountain men," entered Arizona and began trapping beaver (Castor canadensis). In Arizona there have been a number of famous mountain men such as Sylvester and James Pattie, Ewing Young, Jededia Smith, and Bill Williams who trapped along the waterways in northern and southern Arizona. Although the heyday of mountain men lasted only a few decades due to a population decline of beaver, management of these animals continues to this day. The purpose of managing beavers shifted from monetary gain to controlling wildlife damage. During the late 1900s, beaver were still …

New Equipment And Tools For Wildlife Damage Managers, Stephen Vantassel

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

For many years, wildlife control operators had to design and manufacture their own equipment to respond to the variety of issues they confronted in the management of wildlife damage. Today, wildlife control operators can leave the workbench and simply purchase products created by manufacturers. This transition from local to national manufacturing demonstrates that the wildlife control industry has entered a new phase of maturity. This paper presents a sampling of some significant and unusual products that have recently become available for wildlife damage management.

Fostering Greater Professionalism With Firearms In The Wildlife Arena, Joe N. Caudell, Ben C. West, Bob Griffin, Keith Davis

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Wildlife biologists often use firearms in a professional capacity. However, few wildlife professionals receive in-depth or specialized training in the use of firearms. Other professionals who use firearms in the course of their duties (i .e., law enforcement or the military) receive extensive training appropriate to the level of their intended use. But, in general, there are no such requirements or recommendations for wildlife professionals. In addition, the information that is often available regarding firearm selection, maintenance, and use, terminal ballistics on various species of wildlife, humaneness of shot placement, and other aspects related to the use of firearms on …

What Is New On The Animal Protection Radar?, John Hadidian

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

American attitudes toward wildlife have often been cast as falling within an urban/rural dichotomy that separates protectionist from utilitarian value orientations. Long held as a major challenge to wildlife managers, the urban/rural dichotomy may be yielding to change as new attitude and value orientations arise from direct conflicts people have with wild animals as well as from a generational disenfranchisement of young people who lack direct experience with the outdoors. Both may loom as larger challenges for the future and shift the focus of once opposing interests more toward efforts to establish cooperation. Currently, much of the disagreement over wildlife …

Integrating Lethal And Nonlethal Approaches For Management Of Suburban Deer, Jason R. Boulanger, Paul D. Curtis, Michael L. Ashdown

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Evaluations of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) population management in suburban landscapes has included debate over lethal control (e.g., sharp-shooting and hunting). These management techniques are often stymied by political impediments, safety concerns, and public attitudes. We are implementing the novel use of surgical sterilization in combination with hunting to mitigate deer-related impacts on Cornell University lands near Ithaca, New York. The project lands are composed of 2 zones: a suburban core campus area (446 ha) and adjacent outlying areas that contain agricultural fields and natural areas where deer hunting is permitted (582 ha). Surgical sterilization will be the …

Attitudes Of Students In A Wildlife Damage Management Class Towards Nuisance Wildlife Control, Michael T. Mengak, Craig A. Miller, Douglas I. Hall

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Students majoring in wildlife management at the University of Georgia have the option of enrolling in our Wildlife Damage Management course. Students participate in a variety of field activities associated with the laboratory portion of the class while also attending twice-weekly lectures on wildlife damage topics. Each spring at the beginning of the semester, students participate in a short survey to assess their opinions on various topics related to wildlife damage management. The same students participate in the same survey at the end of the semester. We have been collecting pre-and post-course data since 1994. Significantly more students agreed with …

Effect Of Goose Removals On A Suburban Canada Goose Population, Bryan L. Swift, Richard B. Chipman, Kenneth J. Preusser

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Local-nesting or "resident" Canada geese (Branta canadensis) are coming into conflict with people and human activities in urban-suburban areas throughout North America. Capture and removal of molting geese, followed by translocation or euthanasia, is a simple way to reduce the number of geese in an area, but some critics of lethal goose control methods claim that other geese will quickly fill the void left when geese are removed from a problem area. To better understand the effectiveness of urban-suburban goose removal programs, we captured 591 resident geese (mostly adult birds) in suburban Rockland County, New York, during the …

Evaluation Of A Floating Bird Diverter, W. Paul Gorenzel, Terrell P. Salmon, Craig Haffner

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Hazing at oil spills can reduce bird mortalities. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Firefly Pond Diverter™ (Firefly Diverters LLC, Grantsville, UT), a device that floats on the water and is claimed to use motion, reflectivity, and ultraviolet (UV) and visible light emissions to alert and repel birds. The diverter could be useful at a spill, but little is known about how waterbirds would respond. The objectives of this study were to determine if waterbirds were repelled to a greater degree by the diverter compared to a simple novel object (a life ring), to identify the species that responded …

Exposing And Framing The Ethical Blind Spots In Wildlife Damage Management Exploited By Animal Protectionists, Stephen Vantassel

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Animal rights and animal protection activists have long been critics of traditional wildlife management and its damage management counterpart. They claim that wildlife personnel have over-relied on lethal control of overabundant species. Lethal control, they argue, only resolves a problem for the short-term and therefore diminishes the need for people to change their behavior to achieve long-term success. Because effective nonlethal techniques are available, wildlife managers should be encouraging and even compelling the adoption of these techniques. Wildlife managers have endeavored to blunt the criticism by encouraging the use of these techniques. Insofar as those suffering the damage are satisfied, …