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Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Summary, Philip S. Gipson
Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Summary, Philip S. Gipson
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
The second Wildlife Damage Control Workshop was a success. Damage control authorities and conservationists shared knowledge and philosophies regarding control objectives, technology and laws. This workshop differed from the first Damage Control Workshop (Henderson 1973) by treating a variety of wildlife damage including problems with nuisance birds and commensal rodents to feral animals, coyotes, and cougars. The first workshop focused on damage caused by coyotes.
4-H And Youth Related Programs, Major L. Boddicker
4-H And Youth Related Programs, Major L. Boddicker
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
The value of a youth oriented wildlife management program is obvious. Youth is an audience with an open mind, often not committed to old errors. With a proper and intensive education program, a strong future impact can be made on the acceptance and success of animal damage control programs. Programs of quality can change a youth's outlook on problem wildlife from one of apathy or intolerance to one of positive management and high damage tolerance.
Table Of Contents, F. Robert Henderson
Table Of Contents, F. Robert Henderson
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
Table of Contents
Control Of Wild Animals And Public Opinion, Charles H. Callison
Control Of Wild Animals And Public Opinion, Charles H. Callison
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
In 1957 the noted ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy and other landowners on Long Island went to court in an effort to enjoin the U.S. Department of Agriculture from the aerial spraying of DDT to "eradicate" the gypsy moth. This event was years before Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring. It may have been the first of the modern environmental law suits, although no one called it that. Certainly it was a forerunner of the modern environmental law organizations, because about ten years later the Environmental Defense Fund, was born, interestingly, in Dr. Murphy's neighborhood on Long Island. EDF's first great task …
Commensal Rodent Damage Control, Robert L. Carlton
Commensal Rodent Damage Control, Robert L. Carlton
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
Commensal rats and mice are among the only animals about which no good can be said. Each year rats and mice are estimated to cost the American public over $1 billion. This loss is due to contamination of food stuff, structural damage, etc. To give an idea how these rodents can effect the economic picture, assume a rat will eat 25 pounds of chicken feed per year and foul another 25 pounds to such extent it cannot be used as feed (some estimates are as much as ten times greater). The house mouse will consume about 5 pounds per year. …
How To Handle Problem Skunks, F. Robert Henderson
How To Handle Problem Skunks, F. Robert Henderson
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
There are two species of skunks in Kansas. The striped skunk is about the size of a large house cat, generally black in color with two white stripes running from the base of the skull to the large bushy tail. Solid black indivduals are known to occur, but only rarely. The spotted skunk is a smaller mammal about the size of a half-grown house cat. The spotted skunk is a more active, agile animal and a good tree climber.
Muskrat Damage Control, James E. Miller
Muskrat Damage Control, James E. Miller
Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings
Muskrat control, like any type of vertebrate pest control, is not an easy task. It requires not only practical effective methods, but a diligent effort, as well. When speaking of muskrat control, we are not implying total eradiction, because, first of all, it would not be possible, and secondly, in most areas other than agricultural croplands, they are not considered a pest.