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A Live Trap For Birds Attending A Feeding Station, J.L. Hart, L.L. Todd

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

An effective live trap for capturing nuthatches, titmice, and woodpeckers was constucted from hail screen and modified mouse traps. Over 88 percent of active sets resulted in captures.

Controlling Mole Damage, F. Robert Henderson

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

The kind of mole found in Kansas is the eastern mole, Scalopus aquaticus. Moles are small, mouse-sized mammals adapted to living underground. They are characterized by enlarged forefeet with long claws, stout necks and powerful shoulders which make them capable burrowers. Unlike those of mice and shrews, the noses and forefeet of moles are pink and hairless.

Progress In Coyote Hunting Depredations Research, Samuel B. Linhart

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Coyote depredations control research from the end of World War II to about 1960 was characterized by low levels of funding, a minimum of research facilities, an emphasis on lethal agents, few legislative restrictions, a lack of public interest, and little concern for the environment. Establishment of the Leopold Committee (1964) and Cain Committee (1971) were evidence of a growing public concern and awareness of the coyote-livestock problem.

Control Of White-Tailed Deer In Field And Orchard, Forrest D. Loomis, Ronald Ogden

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

As deer populations increase in most areas of the mid-west, and deer habitat is constantly shrinking because of man's activities, damage done to crops, orchards, and other plantings is increasing. No new or revolutionary control or repellent has been perfected to alleviate this complex problem. Annual hunting still offers the best and cheapest method of control.

Thoughts About Wildlife Damage Control, Raymond W. Matheny

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Gentleman, it is my intention today to give you a brief history of EPA and its involvement in predator control, outline basic registration requirements for pesticides, show slides of the use of sodium cyanide capsules in the M-44 ejector mechanism in the experimental use permit programs and comment upon the restrictions set forth in Administrator Train's ORDER of September 16, 1975.

Beaver Damage Control, James E. Miller

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

The beaver (Castor canadensis), our largest North American rodent, is praised by many as being a natural conservationist; however, to others he is a destructive nuisance and pest. In many chronicles, the beaver is lauded to be one of the resources that speeded up the settling of our Great Northwest Territory. Certainly, such explorers as Lewis and Clark depended greatly upon the beaver hide for revenue as well as varter.

Montana Golden Eagle Removal And Translocation Project, Norton R. Miner

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

History of Depredations
History of Sheep Industry
Trapping Program
Eagle Population
Techniques for Capture
Care of a Captive Eagle
Methods of Transport
Release Sites
Results

Cultural And Physical Methods For Managing Problem Birds, Donald F. Mott

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Although chemicals now available (or that soon should be) appear to be the answer to many bird problems in agricultural crops, it is appropriate to also review some of the cultural and physical methods currently in use.

Training Needs For Future Extension Wildlife Programs, R.J. Robel

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

I want to discuss the need for additional educational opportunities for people who will be trying to reduce wildlife damage in the future.

Pest Control Operator Involvement In Wildlife Control, Robert R. Schendel

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Pest Control

Woodchucks And Their Control, Robert H. Smith

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Woodchucks, or groundhogs, (Marmota monax) aer found in the eastern edge of the Great Plains. The first part of the scientific name, Marmota, is the Latin word for "marmot," the name given to the European marmot or the North American marmot which are close relatives of the woodchuck. The last part, monax, is an American Indian name for this rodent and means "the digger"; it alludes to the woodchuck's habit of excavating burrows.

Raccoon Damage Control, W. Alan Wentz

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Raccoons are found throughout the United States, and in most cases they are expanding their range into previously unoccupied habitats. Raccoons are often water-associated, but in the Great Plains they often occur a considerable distance from the water. In the Great Plains states, the expansion of agriculture has apparently allowed raccoons to move westward and northward. It is possible that the availability of old homesteads, buildings, haystacks, dumps, and towns has been instrumental in allowing raccoons to survive the winter.

Welcome, Robert A. Bohannon

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

The Workshop which was held two years ago was a success. According to registration records this year, people from all of the Great Plains states are in attendance and 92 persons are registered. We are especially pleased to welcome C.F. Barrett, Supervisor of Animal Pest Control of the Alberta Department of Agriculture who travelled the longest distance to attend.

Tree Squirrel Damage Control, Robert L. Carlton

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Unlike some wildlife species, tree squirrels are treated as game animals in every state where found. Thus, there are often restructions on times when tree squirrels may be controlled. In areas of high human population, there may be restrictions on ways in which squirrels may be controlled. Finally, because of the human affection for squirrels, there may be places where effective control is almost impossible.

Management Of Cats - Felidae In Colorado, Major L. Boddicker

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Panthers, catamounts, pumas, mountain lions have occurred in legend and folklore from the first years of explorers in the new world until today. They are timid shadows of the night which emit blood curdling screams and yowls. They have occasionally (rarely) killed children and adults (Nevada 1974). Have a taste for horseflesh. They feed heavily on deer and have the capability of killing adult elk.

Rabbit Damage Control, Edward K. Boggess

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

In discussing the control of damage caused by rabbits in the Great Plains area it is helpful to distinguish between the true rabbits, of the genus Sylvilagus, and the so-called jackrabbits, of the genus Lepus, which are really hares. Laws governing the control of rabbit damage vary between states. In Kansas, no poisons can be used for controlling rabbits. This leaves basically three approaches to solving a rabbit damage problem. These are: removal, exclusion and the use of repellents.

Feral Mammal Damage And Control, Philip S. Gipson

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Feral populations of five domestic mammals, dogs (Canis familiaris), house cats (Felis catus), hogs (Sus scrofa), burros (Equus asinus) and horses (Equis caballus), presently occur in North America. At times these animals cause problems, damaging crops or livestock, or competing with livestock and native wildlife for food and living space. Free-living bands of a sixth species, cattle (Bos taurus), formerly occurred in the Southwest. Feral mammals are adaptable, and they have become a permanent part of the fauna in many states. Researchers generally ignored feral mammals in the past, although numerous reports have been published in the past 10 years. …

Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Summary, Philip S. Gipson

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

The second Wildlife Damage Control Workshop was a success. Damage control authorities and conservationists shared knowledge and philosophies regarding control objectives, technology and laws. This workshop differed from the first Damage Control Workshop (Henderson 1973) by treating a variety of wildlife damage including problems with nuisance birds and commensal rodents to feral animals, coyotes, and cougars. The first workshop focused on damage caused by coyotes.

4-H And Youth Related Programs, Major L. Boddicker

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

The value of a youth oriented wildlife management program is obvious. Youth is an audience with an open mind, often not committed to old errors. With a proper and intensive education program, a strong future impact can be made on the acceptance and success of animal damage control programs. Programs of quality can change a youth's outlook on problem wildlife from one of apathy or intolerance to one of positive management and high damage tolerance.

Table Of Contents, F. Robert Henderson

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Table of Contents

Control Of Wild Animals And Public Opinion, Charles H. Callison

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

In 1957 the noted ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy and other landowners on Long Island went to court in an effort to enjoin the U.S. Department of Agriculture from the aerial spraying of DDT to "eradicate" the gypsy moth. This event was years before Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring. It may have been the first of the modern environmental law suits, although no one called it that. Certainly it was a forerunner of the modern environmental law organizations, because about ten years later the Environmental Defense Fund, was born, interestingly, in Dr. Murphy's neighborhood on Long Island. EDF's first great task …

Commensal Rodent Damage Control, Robert L. Carlton

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Commensal rats and mice are among the only animals about which no good can be said. Each year rats and mice are estimated to cost the American public over $1 billion. This loss is due to contamination of food stuff, structural damage, etc. To give an idea how these rodents can effect the economic picture, assume a rat will eat 25 pounds of chicken feed per year and foul another 25 pounds to such extent it cannot be used as feed (some estimates are as much as ten times greater). The house mouse will consume about 5 pounds per year. …

How To Handle Problem Skunks, F. Robert Henderson

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

There are two species of skunks in Kansas. The striped skunk is about the size of a large house cat, generally black in color with two white stripes running from the base of the skull to the large bushy tail. Solid black indivduals are known to occur, but only rarely. The spotted skunk is a smaller mammal about the size of a half-grown house cat. The spotted skunk is a more active, agile animal and a good tree climber.

Muskrat Damage Control, James E. Miller

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Muskrat control, like any type of vertebrate pest control, is not an easy task. It requires not only practical effective methods, but a diligent effort, as well. When speaking of muskrat control, we are not implying total eradiction, because, first of all, it would not be possible, and secondly, in most areas other than agricultural croplands, they are not considered a pest.

The Prairie Naturalist Vol. 7, No.4. December 1975

The Prairie Naturalist

COMPARISON OF FLOWERING RECORDS FROM KANSAS AND NORTH DAKOTA ▪ O. A. Stevens

REPAIRED BONE BREAK IN A HOUSE SPARROW ▪ C. L. Cink and T. K. Broschat

A LARGE RACOON LITTER ▪ E. K. Fritzell and J. W. Matthews

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA –1975 ▪ R. N. Randall

BOOK REVIEW

Autumn Hawk Migrations ▪ P. B. Hofslund

Analysis Of The Sediment Filtering Action Of Grassed Media, Billy J. Barfield, David T. Y. Kao, E. W. Tollner

KWRRI Research Reports

The movement of sediment in non-submerged flow through a rigid grass media was studied experimentally by simulating the media with cylindrical nails. Models of sediment movement were developed from probablistic reasoning and from the use of existing parameters describing total bed material in open channel flow. In the probability analysis, the percent sediment trapped was found to be a power function of the number of potential fall paths, N_f,a particle could make from the surface to the bed while traveling through the filter media. The percent trapped was also found to be an inverse power function of the …

Tertiary Treatment Of Wastewater Using Oxidation Ponds, Robert A. Lauderdale, John R. Moeller, Raymond D. Hamilton

KWRRI Research Reports

The purpose of the project was to determine the value of using lagoons as a supplemental process for treating the effluent from an activated sludge wastewater treatment plant.

Only tentative conclusions can be suggested since the project was not carried to completion. It appears that lagoons will have only minimal effect on the amounts of total nitrogen and phosphate in the plant effluent, although conversion of a portion of the ammonia to nitrate can be expected. However, the concentration of ammonia was never lower than that required by EPA guidelines. Some reduction of soluble BOD appears to occur, perhaps through …

Rural Residential Water Demand In Kentucky: An Econometric And Simulation Analysis, Orlen C. Grunewald, C. T. Haan, David L. Debertin, D. I. Carey

KWRRI Research Reports

This study proposed that demand management through pricing policies can be used in conjunction with supply management to solve water supply problems in Kentucky. Economic principles were shown to apply to rural residential water use. From the economic model, a hyperbolic demand function was theorized. The mathematical form of this function used quantity of water as a function of price, income, value of residence, evaporation, and persons per residence. This function was estimated using ordinary least squares regression. A log-linear model was found to be a satisfactory representation of the demand function. Price was the only independent variable which was …

Water Current, Volume 7, No. 8, November/December 1975

Water Current Newsletter

From the Desk of the Director
Last Call for Research Proposals
Water Resources Seminar
Title II Award From OWRT
Matching Grant Proposals Submitted to OWRT
OWRC Advisory Council Meets
Water Research in Nebraska
New Interior Secretary Confirmed
WRC Legislation Signed by President Ford
Water Research and Technology Advisory Panel Meeting
Research Review: Application of Enzyme Methods to the Determinination of Pollutants in Water

Virginia Coastal Zone Management Report

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.