Wildlife Management

1. Wildlife Management Mr. Goggins

2. What is wildlife? • -Any animal, plant, that is not domesticated. • “The practical ecology of all vertebrates and their plant and animal associates”

3. Wildlife Management • “Application of ecological knowledge to wildlife populations in a manner that strikes a balance between the needs of those population and the needs of people (Bolen and Robinson 2003)

4. Wildlife Categories • Game Species • Non-game species • Endangered and threatened species • Nuisance species • Fish

5. Wildlife Management • 3 basic approaches • Preservation • Direct manipulation • Indirect manipulation

6. History of Wildlife Management • 1800’s- Hunting restrictions • 1933- Aldo Leopold published Game Management • 1937-Congress Passed Pittman-Roberson Act. • 1960’s- New public perspective & expectations

7. Neglect and Exploitation • -Market Hunting

8. Neglect and Exploitation • Passanger Pigeon • Most numerous bird on earth (1800’s) • Extinct in a little over 100 years (last died 1941) • Human Hunting • Labrador Duck • Extinct in 1875 • Loss of habitat

9. Neglect and Exploitation • Caroline Parakeet • Extinct in 1914 • Human hunting and habitat loss • Great auk • Extinct in 1844 • Hunted/ trapped for meat, feathers & eggs • Hawaiian Rail • Extinct in 1940 • Went extinct do to loss of habitat

11. Problems of Excess • Raindeer • 1944 – 24 cows 5 bulls • 1963 – 6000 on island • 1964 – 42 on island • Mule Deer • White-tailed Deer • Winter roosting birds of various species

13. Success Stories • Wood ducks • Wild turkey (catch and release) • Bison • 1860 – 60 million in America • 1889 – 150 in America • 1894 – last free range bison killed

14. Important people in Conservation

15. Aldo Leopold • “Father of wildlife management” • 1st wildlife management professor • Founded wildlife society

16. Theodore Roosevelt • The conservation minded president • Founded 1st wildlife refuge 1903 • Founded boon and crocket club

17. Gifford Pinchot • Americas 1st forester • Helped create the national forest survive

18. John Muir • “The father of our National parks” • Invented 1st alarm clock • Convinced congress to set aside land for the national parks • Founded Siear club

19. John James Audubon • Naturalist and a painter • Most known for “birds of North America”

20. J.N. “Ding” Darling • A famous cartoonist • Conservation & politics main passion • 1st head of U.S. Fish & wildlife • Started the “duck stamp”