Author: British Columbia. Fish and Wildlife BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puma
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Preliminary Cougar Management Plan for British Columbia
Author: British Columbia. Fish and Wildlife BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puma
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Preliminary Non-game Mammal Management Plan for British Columbia
Author: S. R. (Steven Roy) GoodchildPublisher:
ISBN: 9780771987038
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Beyond the City Limits
Author: R.W. SandwellPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The essays in Beyond the City Limits, all published here for the first time, decisively break this silence and challenge traditional readings of B.C. history. In this wide-ranging collection, R.W. Sandwell draws together a distinguished group of contributors who bring expertise, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives taken from social and political history, environmental studies, cultural geography, and anthropology. They discuss such diverse topics as Aboriginal-White settler relations on Vancouver Island, pimping and violence in northern BC, and the triumph of the coddling moth over Okanagan orchardists, to show that a narrow emphasis on resource extraction, capitalist labour relations, and urban society is simply not broad enough to adequately describe those who populated the province's history.
Microlog, Canadian Research Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
An indexing, abstracting and document delivery service that covers current Canadian report literature of reference value from government and institutional sources.
The Cougar
Author: Paula WildPublisher: D & M Publishers
ISBN: 177162003X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Cougar is a skillful blend of natural history, scientific research, First Nations stories and first person accounts. With her in-depth research, Wild explores the relationship between mountain lions and humans, and provides the most up-to-date information on cougar awareness and defense tactics for those living, working or travelling in cougar country.
Final Environmental Document
Author: A Review of Cougar Biology and Management in British Columbia
Author: Garth MowatPublisher:
ISBN: 9781039900431
Category : Animal population density
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cougars (Puma concolor) are the most widespread large carnivore in the Americas, and British Columbia is home to one of the largest and most intact populations of any jurisdiction. Cougars occur throughout most of the southern half of the province and are expanding their range northward. Based on an extrapolation using capable deer habitat and estimated cougar densities, the provincial population is estimated to be 5 000–7 000 animals. As a top carnivore, cougars play an important functional role in many ecosystems. As a big game species,cougars provide an important hunting opportunity for resident and non-resident hunters in British Columbia. Cougar conflicts with people are common in British Columbia and injuries to people, although far less common, have been increasing over the last century. However, this increase may be at least in part due to better recording. Human fatalities are extremely rare; the last human fatality caused by a cougar in British Columbia was in the 1990s. Cougars killed in conflicts with people have occasionally exceeded 160 animals in a year and the average is about 100. Conflict kill rates appear to be related to population size. The Conservation Officer Service receives greater than 3 000 calls per year regarding cougar conflicts when populations are high. Hunting seasons in British Columbia are liberal relative to most other jurisdictions, but kittens and females accompanied by kittens are protected. Hunting is a significant source of mortality for cougars where it has been studied in British Columbia. Hunters kill an average of about 200 animals annually, and the kill occasionally exceeds 300. Hunting is largely focussed on males and often leads to much lower male abundance and average age. Essentially no old males occur in heavily hunted populations. The more subtle effects of this male selection on population demography and the long-term abundance of females and young are not clear. In other jurisdictions,higher levels of infanticide have been documented in areas with high male harvest.Cougar populations appear to be correlated with prey abundance, and in some places, populations may be cyclic. Cougars demonstrated considerable resilience to intense persecution during the first half of the 20th century. In the interior of British Columbia, cougar numbers peaked in the late 1990s and then declined significantly, recovered in the mid-2000s, and peaked again in about 2010 before declining yet again. This cyclic pattern of abundance roughly correlates with deer hunter harvest and was also observed in other neighbouring jurisdictions that had different management strategies and harvest levels. A unique case of cougar population trend occurred on Vancouver Island where the population was thought to be very high in the latter half of the last century as a result of wolf eradication in the 1950s. When wolves recovered in the late 1970s, the cougar population declined and has remained low since then.
Preliminary Fox, Raccoon and Squirrel Management Plan for British Columbia
Author: British Columbia. Fish and Wildlife BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foxes
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Preliminary Black Management Plan for British Columbia
Author: British Columbia. Fish and Wildlife BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description