Author: Michael E. NelsonPublisher:
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Category : Deer
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Deer Population in the Central Superior National Forest, 1967-1985
Author: Michael E. NelsonDeer Population in the Central Superior National Forest, 1967-1985
Author: Michael E. NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deer
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Wolf Population in the Central Superior National Forest, 1967-1985
Author: L. David MechPublisher:
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Category : Gray wolf
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Research Paper NC.
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Wolves on the Hunt
Author: L. David MechPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625528X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature—displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting—or more infamous, more misjudged—than the wolf. Because of wolves’ habitat, speed, and general success at evading humans, researchers have faced great obstacles in studying their natural hunting behaviors. The first book to focus explicitly on wolf hunting of wild prey, Wolves on the Hunt seeks to fill these gaps in our knowledge and understanding. Combining behavioral data, thousands of hours of original field observations, research in the literature, a wealth of illustrations, and—in the e-book edition and online—video segments from cinematographer Robert K. Landis, the authors create a compelling and complex picture of these hunters. The wolf is indeed an adept killer, able to take down prey much larger than itself. While adapted to hunt primarily hoofed animals, a wolf—or especially a pack of wolves—can kill individuals of just about any species. But even as wolves help drive the underlying rhythms of the ecosystems they inhabit, their evolutionary prowess comes at a cost: wolves spend one-third of their time hunting—the most time consuming of all wolf activities—and success at the hunt only comes through traveling long distances, persisting in the face of regular failure, detecting and taking advantage of deficiencies in the physical condition of individual prey, and through ceaseless trial and error, all while risking injury or death. By describing and analyzing the behaviors wolves use to hunt and kill various wild prey—including deer, moose, caribou, elk, Dall sheep, mountain goats, bison, musk oxen, arctic hares, beavers, and others—Wolves on the Hunt provides a revelatory portrait of one of nature’s greatest hunters.
New century wolf conservation and conflict management
Author: Joseph K. BumpPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832522807
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Recovery Plan for the Eastern Timber Wolf
Author: United States. Eastern Timber Wolf Recovery TeamPublisher:
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Category : Eastern wolf
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States
Author: Adrian P. WydevenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387859527
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this book, we document and evaluate the recovery of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The Great Lakes region is unique in that it was the only portion of the lower 48 states where wolves were never c- pletely extirpated. This region also contains the area where many of the first m- ern concepts of wolf conservation and research where developed. Early proponents of wolf conservation such as Aldo Leopold, Sigurd Olson, and Durward Allen lived and worked in the region. The longest ongoing research on wolf–prey relations (see Vucetich and Peterson, Chap. 3) and the first use of radio telemetry for studying wolves (see Mech, Chap. 2) occurred in the Great Lakes region. The Great Lakes region is the first place in the United States where “Endangered” wolf populations recovered. All three states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan) developed ecologically and socially sound wolf conservation plans, and the federal government delisted the population of wolves in these states from the United States list of endangered and threatened species on March 12, 2007 (see Refsnider, Chap. 21). Wolf management reverted to the individual states at that time. Although this delisting has since been challenged, we believe that biological recovery of wolves has occurred and anticipate the delisting will be restored. This will be the first case of wolf conservation reverting from the federal government to the state conser- tion agencies in the United States.