Download or read book Wildlife and the Public Interest written by James A. Tober and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tober considers the activities of nonprofit organizations that attempt to influence public policy dealing with wildlife. The author favors those organizations interested in preserving such wildlife, rather than those that foster hunting or that assess the value of wildlife in the context of economic development. Tober provides sketches of the makeup of the various organizations covered, the constituents they serve, their budgets, and the means they use to influence public policy. The author focuses particularly on the late 1970s and the 1980s, and uses the controversies over preserving the California condor and the bobcat as case studies. Choice Our relationship with the millions of other species with which we share this earth is institutionalized by many organizations, some of which seek to influence policy in the wildlife arena. Wildlife and the Public Interest is a study of this complex wildlife industry, examining the structure, conduct, and performance of those involved. It studies the extreme complexity of the policy process with regard to the relationship between humans and wildlife. A special focus in this book is on the role of nonprofit organizations that have come to dominate large segments of the industry. Students and scholars of public policy, or environmental and resource policy, as well as the general reader interested in this important topic, will find Wildlife and the Public Interest an invaluable resource. The book begins with a characterization of current wildlife policy. Further chapters discuss the wildlife industry; What is wildlife? How do we interact with it? What sort of organizations exist in the interest of wildlife? Two current case studies--of the evolution of the controversial captive breeding program for the California Condor and of the regulation of harvest and export of the bobcat--explore the complexities of policy making and the range of nonprofit activity. Finally, the book examines the community of nonprofit organizations in an interorganizational setting.

Download or read book Land Use and Wildlife Resources written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Agricultural Land Use and Wildlife Resources and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical perspective. Wildlife values in a Changing World. New patterns on land and water. Influence of land management on wildlife. Special problems of waters and watersheds. Pesticides and wildlife. Wildlife demage and control. Legislation and administration. Evaluation and Conclusions.

Download or read book Wildlife Law written by David S. Favre and published by Lupus Publications Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wildlife Law Second Edition written by Eric T. Freyfogle and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildlife is an important and cherished element of our natural heritage in the United States. But state and federal laws governing the ways we interact with wildlife can be complex to interpret and apply. Ten years ago, Wildlife Law: A Primer was the first book to lucidly explain wildlife law for readers with little or no legal training who needed to understand its intricacies. Today, navigating this legal terrain is trickier than ever as habitat for wildlife shrinks, technology gives us new ways to seek out wildlife, and unwanted human-wildlife interactions occur more frequently, sometimes with alarming and tragic outcomes. This revised and expanded second edition retains key sections from the first edition, describing basic legal concepts while offering important updates that address recent legal topics. New chapters cover timely issues such as private wildlife reserves and game ranches, and the increased prominence of nuisance species as well as an expanded discussion of the Endangered Species Act, now more than 40 years old. Chapter sidebars showcase pertinent legal cases illustrating real-world application of the legal concepts covered in the main text. Accessibly written, this is an essential, groundbreaking reference for professors and students in natural resource and wildlife programs, land owners, and wildlife professionals.

Download or read book People and Wildlife written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wildlife Research and Management in the National Parks written by R. Gerald Wright and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should the wolf be reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park? Should hunting of "overabundant" deer and elk be permitted in some parks? How should grizzly bears be managed in frequently visited areas? Are mountain goats to be eliminated from Olympic National Park? R. Gerald Wright probes these and other issues of public interest in this exploration of the unique role national parks have played in the protection, study, and management of animal life. Controversy has often surrounded wildlife management, primarily when societal attitudes toward specific animals do not mesh with Park Service practices. Those practices are influenced by the public as well as by the evolution of a program of scientific study in the national parks. As park environments are increasingly threatened by growing numbers of visitors, outside land-use changes, and pollution, it is more important than ever that scientific knowledge, administrative willingness, and public support combine to help create the policies necessary for appropriate management and protection of park resources. Wright traces the history of wildlife management in the U.S. national parks, bringing together a diversity of literature and previously unpublished information that will be of concern to wildlife and land-management specialists, conservationists, and all those interested in our national parks.

Download or read book The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation written by Shane P. Mahoney and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foremost experts on the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation come together to discuss its role in the rescue, recovery, and future of our wildlife resources. At the end of the nineteenth century, North America suffered a catastrophic loss of wildlife driven by unbridled resource extraction, market hunting, and unrelenting subsistence killing. This crisis led powerful political forces in the United States and Canada to collaborate in the hopes of reversing the process, not merely halting the extinctions but returning wildlife to abundance. While there was great understanding of how to manage wildlife in Europe, where wildlife management was an old, mature profession, Continental methods depended on social values often unacceptable to North Americans. Even Canada, a loyal colony of England, abandoned wildlife management as practiced in the mother country and joined forces with like-minded Americans to develop a revolutionary system of wildlife conservation. In time, and surviving the close scrutiny and hard ongoing debate of open, democratic societies, this series of conservation practices became known as the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. In this book, editors Shane P. Mahoney and Valerius Geist, both leading authorities on the North American Model, bring together their expert colleagues to provide a comprehensive overview of the origins, achievements, and shortcomings of this highly successful conservation approach. This volume • reviews the emergence of conservation in late nineteenth–early twentieth century North America • provides detailed explorations of the Model's institutions, principles, laws, and policies • places the Model within ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts • describes the many economic, social, and cultural benefits of wildlife restoration and management • addresses the Model's challenges and limitations while pointing to emerging opportunities for increasing inclusivity and optimizing implementation Studying the North American experience offers insight into how institutionalizing policies and laws while incentivizing citizen engagement can result in a resilient framework for conservation. Written for wildlife professionals, researchers, and students, this book explores the factors that helped fashion an enduring conservation system, one that has not only rescued, recovered, and sustainably utilized wildlife for over a century, but that has also advanced a significant economic driver and a greater scientific understanding of wildlife ecology. Contributors: Leonard A. Brennan, Rosie Cooney, James L. Cummins, Kathryn Frens, Valerius Geist, James R. Heffelfinger, David G. Hewitt, Paul R. Krausman, Shane P. Mahoney, John F. Organ, James Peek, William Porter, John Sandlos, James A. Schaefer

Download or read book Parks and Wildlife Code written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Science in the Public Interest written by G. Bruce Doern and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past twenty years have seen considerable shifts and struggles in government science that is, in the way the state funds, supports, regulates, conducts and uses scientific and technological activity. Focusing on federal labs and agencies, Strategic Science in the Public Interest explores how these labs have been located within, and often buried by, the larger commercially-focussed federal innovation agenda. G. Bruce Doern and Jeffrey S. Kinder examine four labs whose mandates deal with the Alberta oil sands, environmental technologies, wildlife research, and mining and metals, respectively. The authors use these cases to explain why a better middle-level approach to analysis is needed for strategic public interest-centred government science. They illustrate the importance of understanding the variety, as well as the similarity, of federal science and technology labs and agencies, and of instituting policies that reflect this diversity. The growing importance of Related Science Activities (RSA) is also explored, as well as the core trade-offs between commercial and public goods science in their mandates and their internal capacities.

Download or read book North American Wildlife Policy and Law written by Bruce David Leopold and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive treatise on natural resource policy and law in North America is a vital resource for undergraduate curricula and wildlife professions--and Boone and Crockett has delivered. This comprehensive text thoroughly examines the history and foundation of policy, reviews and analyzes major federal, state, and provincial laws and policies important to natural resources management, and most uniquely discusses application and practice of policy to ensure sustainability of wildlife, fish and their habitats.

Download or read book Fish and Wildlife Miscellaneous Trinity River restoration H R 1438 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Multidimensional Perspective on Wildlife Conservation and Management written by Talesha Janill Dokes and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decisions made by wildlife managers today have long-lasting effects. Wildlife management in the 21st century is highly complex (Ascher 2001; Cilliers et al.2013), requiring diverse skills for effective movement of conservation and sustainability in a positive direction. Broadly, wildlife managers have three primary responsibilities 1) people, 2) habitat, and 3) animal populations. In North America the public plays a critical, active role in wildlife conservation by providing funding (through taxation and license sales; Organ et al. 2012), interacting with public agencies that serve as wildlife trustees (Organ et al. 2012), and by voting (Kilpatrick and Walter 1997). Habitat is the foundation of wildlife population performance, and managers frequently manipulate habitats to affect populations (Morrison et al. 1992; Messmer 2009). The ultimate indicator of successful wildlife conservation and sustainable management is population performance, best expressed as long-term population growth rate (Lindenmayer 2000). Managers coordinate the actions of people, and manipulate habitats and populations to affect long-term population growth rate to meet some objective. For overabundant wildlife causing property damage, the objective is likely to reduce populations and mitigate damage (e.g., Conover 2001). For rare species, the objective is likely to increase distribution, numbers, and population growth rate (e.g., Wydeven et al. 2009). Collectively, people, habitat, and animal populations form the "three-legged stool" of wildlife management (Leopold 1987).My dissertation is a combination of research topics that include components of the "three-legged stool" of wildlife management. An underlying theme is the connection humans have with their environments. In Chapter 1, I assessed what motivated current natural resource students to choose natural resources as a career, recognizing that younger generations in the United States may not relate to the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Younger generations in the United States are increasingly urbanized (Manfredo et al. 2003), often at the expense of utilitarian connections to wildlife and under-appreciation for some tools used to manage animal populations like hunting and trapping (Manfredo et al. 2003). However, younger generations have a close non-utilitarian connection to wildlife and the environment (Manfredo et al. 2003), offering a substantial conservation opportunity. This places organizations relying on hunting, trapping, and fishing license sales to implement wildlife conservation (e.g., state resource agencies) in a difficult position. On one hand, funding for the organization is tied to an increasingly outdated interest in wildlife (for example) so implementation of programs and activities must maintain or attempt to increase those interests. Conversely, those programs may alienate younger generations, potentially missing a critical opportunity to engage the broader public in conservation. Ultimately, wildlife management organizations recognize that employees must represent diverse and value public interests to remain relevant in the 21st century. In my first chapter, I analyzed family backgrounds and current interests of student enrolled in natural resource programs in the United States to understand motivating factors that influenced their apparent career decision. The premise was to lay a foundation for understanding the future employee pool responsible for implementing wildlife conservation, guide student recruiting into the profession, and offer suggestions to improve college natural resource course offerings.Managers use harvest regulations to achieve habitat or animal population objectives and to influence public participation and interest (e.g., Riley et al. 2002; Lauber et al. 2012). Factors affecting participation and effort in wildlife harvest by the public are multi-faceted and complex in space, time, and circumstance (Riley et al. 2002; Enck 2006). For example, weather conditions (Obbard et al. 1999), state of the economy (Obbard et al. 1999), and social or cultural demographics (Miller and Vaske 2003) affect hunting participation and effort. Given that harvest regulations are a key element of many wildlife conservation programs, increased understanding of factors that motivate people to participate and be successful benefit management organizations. In Chapter 2, I investigated factors that effected trapping success of American marten (Martes americanus) in Michigan. I sought to determine what factors could potentially be manipulated by wildlife managers to affect harvest success. I evaluated factors directly controlled by managers (e.g., distance from maintained roads), those related to socio-economic forces beyond the management organization (e.g., pelt prices), and factors that were uncontrollable (e.g., weather). As such, this chapter contains all the elements of the "three-legged stool" of wildlife management; how trapping success (a measure of trapper involvement and effort) influenced marten populations under varying habitat conditions.Wildlife conservation programs often include some form of habitat management. In some instances, wildlife conservation can be included in practices commonly used for resource extraction like timber harvest. In forested regions of North America, managers commonly use timber harvest purposefully to provide wildlife habitat (e.g., Linden and Roloff 2013). In other instances, timber extraction is the primary management objective but wildlife considerations are included (Blinn and Kilgore 2001; Demarais et al. 2017). One way to include wildlife in timber harvest objectives is through retention forestry, where managers retain elements of the pre-harvest forest to increase structural complexity (Fedrowitz et al. 2014; Mori and Kitagawa 2014). Retention forestry is particularly relevant in silvicultural systems like clearcutting, where managers remove all merchantable trees. Clearcutting is a common practice used on aspen (Populus spp.) forests in Michigan, and foresters are required to retain unharvested trees to provide wildlife habitat (Bielecki 2012). Retention of these trees comes at a cost through lost timber revenues, potentially increased safety hazards for equipment operators, and potential loss of forest regeneration. Hence, knowing that retention forestry is having a positive effect on wildlife populations is a critical information need. Otto and Roloff (2012) found that retention forestry in aspen clearcuts of Michigan had minimal effect on bird occupancy probability, and they surmised that landscape context was an important consideration. In Chapter 3, I evaluated how songbird occupancy related to structural retention in aspen clearcuts using a hierarchical model that included patch- and landscape-factors, with the goal of better understanding how landscape context affected the function of retained structures as bird habitats. Although this chapter focuses on habitat management and how it affected a population parameter (i.e., occupancy), the results inform decisions made by managers and policy-makers (i.e., people).My dissertation research encapsulated the three responsibilities of a wildlife manager (people, habitat, and populations), highlight the importance of multi-dimensional training and experiences for managers. I also used sound sampling designs and a suite of modeling approaches to generate scientific evidence, consistent with efforts to infuse science into natural resources decision-making (Mills and Clark 2001). Results from my research offer insights into how people decide to embark on wildlife careers, how people respond to socio-economic and environmental factors to manipulate wildlife populations, and how habitat management decisions by people can influence wildlife populations.

Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Idaho. School of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Making America s Public Lands written by Adam M. Sowards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout American history, “public lands” have been the subject of controversy, from homesteaders settling the American west to ranchers who use the open range to promote free enterprise, to wilderness activists who see these lands as wild places. This book shows how these controversies intersect with critical issues of American history.

Download or read book Businessmen for the Public Interest Inc V Froehlke written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Book of Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes include : Crossing conceptual, cultural and political boundaries -- ideas of community, place and landscape ; working in new temporal and spatial scales ; resource management and environmental justice ; bioregional, deep ecological and ecofeminist perspectives on natural resources ; cultural definitions of resources, co-management between state, provincial, federal/national governments and aboriginal/native peoples [First Nations] ; involvement of ethnic and racial minorities in policy making ; fisheries, parks, protected areas, in transboundary areas ; public-private sector collaboration, etc.

Download or read book Communicating Concern for Wildlife Conservation to an Apathetic Public written by Thomas Hale Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: