Author: Canadian Wildlife ServicePublisher:
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Languages : en
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Range Relationships of Elk and Cattle in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba
Author: Canadian Wildlife ServicePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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Range Relationships of Elk and Cattle in Riding Mountain National Park
Author: Donald A. BloodPublisher:
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Range Relationships of Elk and Cattle in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba
Author: Donald A. BloodPublisher: Canadian Wildlife Service
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Range Relationships of Elk and Cattle in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba
Author: Donald Arthur BloodDeveloping Strategies For Rangeland Management
Author: Mary KoppalPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 042970531X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2022
Book Description
In a two-year study, the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Developing Strategies for Rangeland Management examined at length the scientific, political, economic, legal, and social issues arising from the BLM's stewardship role. This book, reporting the findings and recommendations of the NAS committee, contains over eighty professional papers presented at workshops designed to assess forage allocation, inventory of rangeland resources, impact of grazing intensity and specialized grazing systems on the use and value of rangeland, manipulative range improvements, application of socioeconomic techniques to range management decision making, and political and legal aspects of range management.
Feasibility Assessment for the Reintroduction of North American Elk, Moose and Caribou Into Wisconsin
Author: Linda R. ParkerPublisher:
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Category : Caribou
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Elk-agriculture Conflicts in the Greater Riding Mountain Ecosystem
Author: Ryan K. BrookPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Successful mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts requires an approach that incorporates both the ecological aspects of wildlife and the social considerations of the affected stakeholders and these must be considered in an integrated fashion at multiple temporal and spatial scales. In this dissertation, I examine the relationship between farmers around Riding Mountain National Park (RMNP) in southwestern Manitoba and the regional elk (Cervus elaphus) population, in order to better understand and resolve these long-standing conflicts more effectively. Local perspectives were documented throughout this study, initially through 40 community meetings in 2000 and 2001 prior to formal data collection, then through a mail-out survey in 2002, and later through participatory mapping exercises from 2003 to 2006. A longitudinal analysis of historical information regarding elk-agriculture conflicts using the interviews and government letter files indicated that diverse types of conflicts have occurred annually for the last 127 years. Issues related to bovine tuberculosis (TB) in elk in the last 15 years have been some of the most intense conflicts ever occurring, but these are based on previous conflicts and they have further undermined the already strained relationship between farmers and RMNP. The most important factor associated with high concern regarding bovine TB was the frequency that farmers observed elk on their land. To examine the biophysical aspects of elk interactions with agriculture, 212 wild elk were captured from 2002-2005 using a net-gun fired from a helicopter and given a GPS satellite collar (n=25) of VHF transmitter (n=187). Overlap in space use between elk and cattle was high in summer and low in winter based on both the collar data and local knowledge, though farmers identified higher levels of overlap throughout the year. During the spring elk calving period, the home ranges of 73% of the parturient elk remained entirely within protected areas, while 6% were exclusively on farmland, and 21% included both. The proportion of the elk population calving on farmland continues to increase from near zero in the 1970s. Hay yard barrier fences are the most effective and widely accepted management tool in use to mitigate elk-agriculture conflict, but modifications to the process of allocating and monitoring fences are needed. Indeed, all aspects of the management of elk-agriculture interactions require greater levels of communication and collaboration between government agencies and local stakeholders. I also advocate taking an adaptive, science-based approach to managing human-wildlife conflicts that focuses on both the social and natural sciences as mutally contributing to our understanding of the problems and generating meaningful solutions. This is one of few studies that makes use of local knowledge and conventional ecological data together, and demonstrates the contributions of both in better understanding the temporospatial aspects of wildlife-human conflicts and their socioeconomic and conservation implications.
Inventory and Monitoring of Wildlife Habitat
Author: Allen CooperriderPublisher:
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Category : Animal populations
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Browsing Science Research at the Federal Level in Canada
Author: Brian B. WilksPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802088116
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Wilks provides a historical background, list of publications, and description of activities for most of the major science initiatives undertaken at the federal level. He surveys a wide range of government documents and monographic and serial science collections used by both faculty and students.
Author: Leslie A. Rice