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Bats In Human Dwellings: Health Concerns And Management, Stephen C. Frantz, Charles V. Trimarchi

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The natural roosts of insectivorous bats in the north-east US are typically caves, rock crevices, and hollow trees. A few species, primarily Myotis lucifigus (little brown bat) and Eptesicus fuscus (big brown bat), have readily adapted to living in the houses and other structures of humans. During the warmer months of April through October, commensal bats sometimes become a nuisance due to their colonial habits and resultant odors, noises, guano deposits, and associated aesthetic and economic damages. Bat ectoparasites and at least one fungal disease, histoplasmosis, are of some medical import and the observation of bats flying about a residence …

Wildlife Conflicts In An Urban Area: Occurrence Of Problems And Human Attitudes Toward Wildlife, Michael A. O'Donnell, Larry W. Vandruff

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Today's world is undergoing increasing urbanization, and as most metropolitan expansions have resulted in urban sprawl, much original wildlife habitat has been heavily modified or eliminated. Populations of many wildlife species have decreased as a result of habitat changes, but at the same time, numbers of some native and many exotic species have increased in urban areas. As the process of urbanization continues and human's intensive use of land encroaches upon the use of land by wildlife, contact between people and wildlife will change in form and increase in residential areas.

Wildlife Population Cycles: Implications For Damage Control Planning, Richard E. Griffiths

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Animal population cycles are not a newly discovered phenomena. References to irruptions (sic, Leopold 1933 p. 50) of small rodents can be found in the Old Testament, the writings of Aristotle and in European histories (Orr 1963 p. 360). The wildlife literature is filled with descriptions and studies of the population fluctuations of numerous species. Despite the vast amounts of data collected and speculation engaged in, biologists only partially understand the reasons for these fluctuations (Archibald 1977, Chitty 1952, Christian 1950, Cole 1951, Frank 1957, Hoffman 1958 Swinton 1883 and many others).

An Evaluation Of A Method For Reducing White-Tailed Deer Depredations On Soybeans In Western Tennessee, Gary Tanner, Ralph W. Dimmick

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The development of the Land-Between-The-Lakes Wildlife and Recreation Area (LBL) in western Tennessee and Kentucky by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has greatly increased the deer population level on that area. Tenant farmers on LBL report increasing crop losses due to deer depredations, and the area's wildlife managers are unable to maintain food plots for quail and other wildlife species because of deer damage.

Chem-News - An On-Line Pesticide Information Program, W. G. Smith, R. I. Carruthers, J. Barnard

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Computerization of pesticide information is rapidly becoming a necessity as regulatory agencies expand their activities through enforcement, monitoring, and certification of pesticide applicators. Educational institutions responsible for providing pesticide information and pesticide applicator training for certification must also expand their capabilities for immediate updating and faster retrieval. Two programs at Cornell University, the Chemical-Pesticides Program and the Pesticide Impact Assessment Program (PIAP), are presently involved in developing on-line pesticide information for researchers, extension personnel, and regulatory agencies, as well as for those using pesticides.

Animal Damage Control In Eastern United States, Donald A. Spencer

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

This report is an overview of ongoing animal damage control programs in the 31 Eastern States, made possible by scores of individuals and the organizations they represent. The response to requests for data was excellent. For example, all 31 State Wildlife Agencies contributed information on their programs. As was to be expected, the organizations contacted do not use the same format in discharging their responsibilities nor in the records they keep. Thus precisely recorded figures have to march side by side with "educated estimates", but at least the estimates were made by personnel intimately acquainted with a particular project. As …

Black Bear Depredation On Bee Yards In Florida, David S. Maehr

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The development of procedures for dealing with nuisance black bears in Florida has followed many years of antagonism between beekeepers and the State's wildlife agency as well as an intensive effort to mitigate the problem. With an apparently decreasing black bear population and increasing public sentiment for the bear, the pressure to develop acceptable management guidelines has become great. This paper summarizes the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission's efforts in documenting and mitigating the bear-beekeeper problem in Florida.

Beaver Management In The Southeastern United States: A Review And Update, David K. Woodward

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Beaver populations in primitive times have been estimated at 60 million animals distributed across the North American continent where adequate food and water existed (Seton 1900). History books document well the exploitation of this resource by trappers in the settling of the new world. The search for beaver was so efficient that by the beginning of the twentieth century only small numbers of animals remained in remote areas. During the early 1900's however, beaver populations began to increase for a variety of reasons. Foremost among these were trapping restrictions, but the absence of natural predators, reversion of abandoned farms to …

Wildlife Damage Control In Eastern Cities And Suburbs, Vagn Flyger, Daniel L. Leedy, Thomas M. Franklin

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The topics covered in this paper are based mainly on experiences with people seeking help from the University of Maryland and the National Institute for Urban Wildlife. Although most residents of cities and suburbs enjoy and appreciate wildlife, we are frequently reminded that some do not, other people only tolerate and enjoy selected animal species, provided that these animals ''behave" - they don't make noise, keep their distance, don't damage ornamentals, and are not messy. Some people are so intolerant of wildlife that they even complain about frog choruses from nearby ponds. Response to wildlife varies such that one resident …

Welcome To Conference Participants, Herbert E. Doig

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

It is a pleasure for me to welcome participants of the First Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference and I bring you greetings and best wishes for a successful conference from Governor Mario Cuomo and commissioner of Environmental Conservation Henry Williams. It is appropriate that the first conference on this important subject in the East be heId in New York since we typify a variety of interactions between people and wildlife that are characteristic of the region.

Comparison Of 8 Physical Barriers Used For Protecting Douglas-Fir Seedlings From Deer Browse, David R. Deyoe, Wieger Schaap

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The success or failure of forest regeneration efforts in western Oregon and Washington often depends on adequate control of animal damage to young seedlings. Cutover and partially stocked forest lands provide excellent habitat for animals that clip or browse young seedlings. Black and Dimock (1969) estimated that animals were responsible for roughly one out of five reforestation failures. The Cooperative Animal Damage study of coniferous plantations in Oregon and Washington (1963-1975) found that animals damaged an average of 30 percent of all unprotected Douglas-fir seedlings each year on the 165 plots studied (Black et al. 1979). Browsing by deer and …

Crop Depredations By Canada Geese In East-Central Wisconsin, Richard A. Hunt

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

In 1973, I presented a paper on "Waterfowl Crop Damage in Wisconsin" at the 6th Bird Control Seminar at Bowling Green, Ohio (Hunt & Bell 1983). That paper reviewed crop damage by Canada geese (Branta canadensis) around Horicon National Wildlife Refuge and the program developed to pay for and control damage, and suggested some recommendations related to future depredations management. At that time the fall goose population was about 200,000 at peak levels on the refuge. Since 1973, some significant changes were implemented in the Horicon area that reduced the peak concentration to less than 100,000. Crop depredations …

Wildlife Damage Control And Wildlife Management, Dale A. Jones, Hugh C. Black

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

It is a distinct pleasure and privilege to help kick off this conference. But, first, we want to commend the Co-chairmen, Jim Caslick, Dan Decker, and John Kelley, and the Conference Committee involved in putting this excellent and timely program together.

Reanalysis Of Farmer Willingness To Tolerate Deer Damage In Western New York, D. J. Decker, N. Sanyal, T. L. Brown, R. A. Smolka Jr., N. A. Connelly

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Crop depredation by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus uirginianus) has been examined and discussed by wildlife managers since at least the early 1930's (Leopold 1933:283). As with most aspects of game management in those early years, managers' efforts focused on the biological parameters of depredation and control. In the 1960's a few researchers began examining the social implications of deer management and found farmers to be surprisingly tolerant of most deer damage (McDowell and Benson 1960, McNeil 1962:81, Flyger and Thoerig 1962:48). Because of changing agricultural, habitat, and deer population conditions, studies of farmer tolerance of deer damage were initiated …

Control Of Beaver Damage, James E. Miller

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Beaver activity often conflicts with human's interests when damage occurs. It also has significant impact on the ecology of an area modified extensively by constant flooding. This often makes control of these animals somewhat different than for some other vertebrate species which cause serious damage. However, even though in biological terms beaver control may seem rather simple, in reality other factors including social, economic, and political pressures often dictate our actions more than dealing with the biological parameters of the species.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding Frankfort rally, Dialogue '83, 24 hour study hours and area, freshman elections, Who's Who reception and Judicial Council.

Newsletter Vol. Vii, No. 2, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate newsletter. This issue includes articles:

• Faculty Senate Evaluation of Administrators
• Evaluation of President by Faculty
• Change-of-Grade Regulations
• Appreciations - Fred Murphy, Joan Krenzin
• Faculty Regent Report
• Committee on University Committees
• Political Action Committee
• Cole, John David. Letter to the Editor
• Anticlimax Department (Research Division)

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss Frankfort rally, Dialogue '83, new typewriter and resolutions.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss 1982-83 review, faculty awards and administrative evaluations.

Meeting Agenda, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Agenda for meeting including substitute motion for Murphy/Rust motion regarding administrative evaluations.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding having Bowling Green police give safety lecture, student discount cards, meeting attendance and Weekend in the Woods.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding dedication of ASG year to Kerrie Stewart, Weekend in the Woods, Dialogue '83 and student discount cards.

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting regarding committee assignments, capital construction projects, 1984-86 appropriation request, suplus property auction, sale of property to fraternities and sororities, co-residential housing, personnel appointments and salaries, athletic ticket prices, educational television, lease of the Russell Starr Preserve, gifts and grants, student recruitment, desegregation plan, WKU-Owensboro, resolutions in honor of William Buckman, John David Cole and Margaret Ragan and Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Meeting agenda, action items and recommendations from Donald Zacharias.

• Capital Equipment Request 1984-86
• Committee Membership
• State Appropriation Request 1984/86
• Faculty Salaries
• Disposal of Surplus Property
• Greek Housing
• Academic Council Report
• Personnel Changes & Salaries
• Women's Basketball
• UHF Television Channel
• Russell Starr Preserve
• Unrestricted Funds Distribution
• Resolutions in honor of William Buckman, John David Cole, Margaret Ragan
• Kentucky Teachers Retirement System
• Clippings
• Study of Potential for Participation in International Development
• International Programs & Projects

Exhibit I - Request 1984-85, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

List of financial requests made for 1984-85 and the accounts drawn on.

Exhibit Ii - Request 1985-86, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Financial requests made for 1985-86 and the accounts to be drawn on.

Exhibit Iii - Disposition Of Surplus Property, Harry Largen

Board of Regents Documents

Memo from Harry Largen to Donald Zacharias regarding the disposal of surplus property with list of said property attached.

Progress Of The Blend-Linc 'Electronic Journal' Project, B. Shackel

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper describes the progress after 3 years of a 4 year experimenial programme organised jointly by two Universities as the Birmingham and Loughborough Electronic Network Development (BLEND). The aims of the programme are to explore and evaluate alternative forms of user communication through an 'electronic journal' and information network and to assess the cost, efficiency and subjective impact of such a system. Several communities of users are being studied, and the progress of the project is described during the development of various types of 'electronic journal' with a community of initially about 50 scientists (the Loughborough Information Network Community …

The Implications For Publishing Of Electronic Document Storage And Delivery, Maurice B. Line

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The electronic storage and delivery of serial articles will affect not only libraries and their users but publishers, whose main market is libraries. In particular, the ability of libraries to acquire individual articles rather than whole serials could destroy the viability of conventional published serials and result in the use of market rather than quality criteria in deciding which articles to accept for 'publication': the system would become user-driven rather than author-driven. The large investment required for electronic publishing might lead to the take-over of traditional publishers by large corporations whose interests were purely commercial. Data-bases handling the electronic texts …

The Changing Role Of Secondary Information Services, Stella Keenan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Secondary serial publications (abstracting and indexing services) are, by their nature, closely linked to the primary journal literature. They are affected by the publication pattern and processes of the primary serials, and developments in technology and communication facilities. In the 1960s and 1970s it was generally agreed that secondary services could be divided into disciplines oriented services and mission or project oriented services. This long established division is currently changing as secondary services have become increasingly flexible and more concerned than ever with user requirements.

Technological developments and the continuing economic constraints are exerting pressure on the abstracting and indexing …