Download or read book Mountain Goat Winter Habitat and Forest Development in Coastal British Columbia written by Antonio Luciano Madia and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountain Goat forest Management Relationships written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desired Conditions for Coastal Mountain Goat Winter Range written by Steven F. Wilson and published by B.C. Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Biodiversity Branch. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Beast the Color of Winter written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life's possibilities, it exists higher and steeper throughout the year than any other big beast on the continent. It is possibly the best and most complete mountaineer that ever existed on any continent. Oreamnos americanus is its scientific name. Its common name is mountain goat." Resourceful, belligerent, and unbelievably sure-footed, the mountain goat is a white-coated survivor from the Ice Age. Oreamnos americanus shares its dizzying alpine world with elk, eagles, bighorn sheep, and grizzlies. This first full-length book on the mountain goat offers a superbly written portrait of its life, habits, and environment. Douglas H. Chadwick tracked mountain goat herds for seven years, and his observations are richly textured and replete with fascinating and dramatic details. We learn of the mountain goats' lives from birth to adulthood, their feeding habits, unique social behavior and courtship rituals, and their long history. Chadwick also makes clear the troubling and escalating impact of the modern world on the mountain goat's wilderness home. This Bison Books edition features a new introduction by the author.
Download or read book Environmental Risk Assessment Base Line Scenario written by Brad T. Pollard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mountain goat is an apparently secure species that occurs through the mountainous regions of British Columbia. This assessment establishes the risk to mountain goat populations in 33 landscape units in the North Coast Land & Resource Management Plan area. The risk assessment uses static & temporal data within a standardized framework to predict the level of risk of maintaining the base-case circumstances. Much of the assessment relies on the interpretive mapping of winter range, the primary factor at risk with mountain goats. Winter range mapping was developed using a two-tier approach considering known & suspected patterns in sub-regional & stand-level winter habitat selection. Risk is then assessed using three indicators: direct impact on winter range through reduction of forest cover; relative increase in access-associated disturbance; and population fragility. The indicators are run through a Bayesian relief network to provide risk values for each landscape unit with levels of uncertainties. Possible options for mitigating the impact of forestry practices & human access on goat winter range are briefly discussed.
Download or read book Life on the Rocks written by Bruce L. Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American mountain goat is one of the most elusive and least familiar species of hoofed mammals in North America. Confined to the remote and rugged mountains of the western United States and Canada, these extraordinary mountaineers are seldom seen or encountered, even by those who patiently study them. Life on the Rocks offers an intimate portrayal of this remarkable animal through the eyes and lens of field biologist and photographer Bruce L. Smith. More than 100 color photographs and accounts of Smith’s personal experiences living in Montana’s Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area accompany descriptions of the American mountain goat’s natural history. Smith explores their treacherous habitat, which spans the perilous cliffs and crags of the Rocky, Cascade, and Coast mountain ranges. The physical and behavioral adaptations of these alpine athletes enable them to survive a host of dangers, including six-month-ling winters, scarce food sources, thunderous avalanches, social strife, and predators like wolves, bears, lions, wolverines, and eagles. Smith also details the challenges these animals face as their territory is threatened by expanding motorized access, industrial activities, and a warming climate. Life on the Rocks showcases the elegance and charm of this little-known creature, thriving in some of North America’s harshest wilderness.
Download or read book Mountain Goat Habitat Management Plan for the Cabinet Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Risk Assessment Base Line Scenario written by Brad T. Pollard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mountain goat is an apparently secure species that occurs through the mountainous regions of British Columbia. This assessment establishes the risk to mountain goat populations in 33 landscape units in the North Coast Land & Resource Management Plan area. The risk assessment uses static & temporal data within a standardized framework to predict the level of risk of maintaining the base-case circumstances. Much of the assessment relies on the interpretive mapping of winter range, the primary factor at risk with mountain goats. Winter range mapping was developed using a two-tier approach considering known & suspected patterns in sub-regional & stand-level winter habitat selection. Risk is then assessed using three indicators: direct impact on winter range through reduction of forest cover; relative increase in access-associated disturbance; and population fragility. The indicators are run through a Bayesian relief network to provide risk values for each landscape unit with levels of uncertainties. Possible options for mitigating the impact of forestry practices & human access on goat winter range are briefly discussed.
Download or read book Mountain Goat in British Columbia written by British Columbia. Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rocky Mountain Goat written by Madison Grant and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountain Goat Resource Selection in the Haines Skagway Area written by Kevin S. White (Biologist) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental variation plays an important role in influencing resource selection of wildlife and, by extension, design of wildlife conservation strategies. In northern ecosystems, snow influences distribution of mountain ungulates, resulting in variation in distribution and elevational wintering strategies. For species such as mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) that are particularly sensitive to human and industrial disturbance, spatial delineation of critical habitat is needed to inform land and wildlife management decisions. We combined mountain goat GPS location (mountain goats, n = 64; GPS locations, n = 114,674) and remote sensing data in a GIS framework in order to develop resource selection function (RSF) models. Specifically, we developed seasonal- and wintering strategy-specific RSF models to delineate critical mountain goat habitat and inform helicopter tourism-based land management analyses and decision making. Our 3,620 km2 study area, located near Haines and Skagway, Alaska, was characterized by a transitional coastal-interior climate. We identified 3 distinct elevational wintering strategies used by mountain goats--low/forest, medium/tree line and high/alpine--that broadly tracked the coastal to interior gradient. Low elevation wintering was more common near the coast, whereas high elevation wintering was more common in the interior. Aside from elevational differences, mountain goat resource selection patterns were similar throughout the study area with respect to season and wintering strategy such that animals selected steep, rugged areas in close proximity to cliffs. For each of 9 discrete geographic localities within our study area we determined the predominant wintering strategy or strategies used and delineated habitat based on the appropriate model or models. The resulting winter habitat delineations were used to determine that, depending on the area, 11% to 62% of existing mountain goat habitat was located within areas approved for helicopter skiing. Variation in mountain goat habitat and ski area overlap is partially related to whether mountain goats utilize low versus higher elevation wintering habitats, and also to the proportion of a given area allocated to helicopter skiing. Ultimately, we demonstrate how statistically rigorous RSF models based on extensive mountain goat GPS location and remote sensing data can be used in combination with information about human uses to parameterize socio-ecological trade-offs associated with making controversial land management decisions.
Download or read book Habitat Use by Mountain Goats in Southeastern Alaska written by Christian A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Reference Briefs written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winter Habitat Use by Mountain Goats written by John W. Schoen and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports of studies, July 1977 through June 1984, the objective of which were to develop capture and telemetry procedures suitable for monitoring mountain goat movements and to determine habitat use by mountain goats in southeast Alaska.
Download or read book Effects of Agricultural Conservation Practices on Fish and Wildlife written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The bibliography is a guide to recent scientific literature covering effects of agricultural conservation practices on fish and wildlife. The citations listed here provide information on how conservation programs and practices designed to improve fish and wildlife habitat, as well as those intended for other purposes (e.g., water quality improvement), affect various aquatic and terrestrial fauna"--Abstract.
Download or read book Mountain Goats written by Marco Festa-Bianchet and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or conservation plans. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the ecology and behavior of mountain goats, setting forth the results of a remarkable 16-year longitudinal study of more than 300 marked individuals in a population in Alberta, Canada. The authors’ thorough, long-term study allowed them to draw important conclusions about mountain goat ecology—including individual reproductive strategies, population dynamics, and sensitivity to human disturbance—and to use those conclusions in offering guidance for developing effective conservation strategies. Chapters examine: -habitat use, vegetation quality, and seasonal movements -sexual segregation and social organization -individual variability in yearly and lifetime reproductive success of females -age- and sex-specific survival and dispersal -reproductive strategies and population dynamics -management and conservation of mountain goats The book also draws on the rich literature on long-term monitoring of marked ungulates to explore similarities and differences between mountain goats and other species, particularly bighorn sheep and ibex. By monitoring a marked population over a long period of time, researchers were able to document changes in sex-age structure and identify factors driving population dynamics. Because it explores the links between individual life-history strategy and population dynamics in a natural setting, Mountain Goats will be an invaluable resource for wildlife managers, researchers in ecology and animal behavior, conservationists, population biologists, and anyone concerned with the ecology and management of natural populations, especially in alpine environments.
Download or read book Mountain Goat Habitat Supply Modeling in the Mackenzie Timber Supply Area North central British Columbia Version 1 0 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes work conducted to initiate development of a habitat supply model (HSM) for mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) that would be used to address management concerns for mountain goat populations potentially impacted by forest harvesting, particularly in those locations where goats use low-elevation mineral licks in areas with high timber supply value. The introduction reviews mountain goat ecology & management concerns in the Mackenzie Timber Supply Area of northern British Columbia and the objectives & applications of goat HSM in land use planning. Section 2 describes modelling activities and includes information on the modelling approach and the modelling tools used. The models developed are presented in section 3. These include four sub-models of management factors (covering ground disturbance, aerial disturbance, hunting, & predation) and four habitat models that focussed on habitat types considered most likely to be either limiting or important to mountain goat populations in the Mackenzie Timber Supply Area. Sections 4 & 5 present modelling results & their interpretation and information on procedures for model testing & validation. Appendices include an agenda & summary of HSM workshops conducted in February & March 2003 and results of trial application of the model to the Ospika River drainage.
