Showing posts with label wildlife management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildlife management. Show all posts
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Aldo Leopold on Gadgets and Fox Hunting

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Aldo Leopold Aldo Leopold, who was born on this day in 1887 , was one of the most important people in the history of U.S. conservation. ...
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Vicious: Wolves and Men in America

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Despite a lot of talk and unfounded rumor , there is only one record of a non-rabid wolf killing a human in North America since the arr...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Glad to Be American With Wilderness and Wildlife

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Aldo Leopold :: This is a repost from 2010. There is something vaguely ridiculous about European hunting with its dress-up clothes ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Shooting Out the Land

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Ranger McEntire of the Malheur National Forest (Eastern Oregon), Winter 1912 - 1913 A repost from this blog circa 2005 In 1887, ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Hunting Ethics and Terriers

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A repost from June 2005. The hunting community has given a LOT of serious thought to ethical hunting and perhaps this is a topic over-...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Record Numbers in the Hedge

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This is a repost from 2007. See side bar to this blog to order this, and other designs, on T-shirts, etc.  All money goes to support terr...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Clash of Opinions is Actually a Clash of Knowledge

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In Heartsblood: Hunting, Spirituality and Wildness in America, David Peterson notes that back in 1978 Yale University behavioral scientist ...
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Monday, December 14, 2009

Hook and Bullet Conservation Results in More Game

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The picture at right is an American bobcat taken in Michigan. We have bobcats all over the U.S., and in surprisingly large numbers -- over ...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sheryl Crow is an Idiot

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Sheryl Crow is an idiot . There is a reason we do not ask rock stars , celebrities and politicians about their theories of wildlife managem...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Artificial Dens, Big Dogs and Fair Chase

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Concrete liners wait to be assembled into an artificial fox earth in Germany. This is an "in and out" design where the barking d...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

U.S. Government Fox Bait

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If you want to fully understand the difference between the U.K. and the U.S. when it comes to wild lands and wildlife management, take a to...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Cull of the Wild

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This book set out the tenets of wildlife management still in use today. This post is reprinted from this blog circa June, 2005 D...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The High Cost of Animal Rights Rhetoric

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A recycled post from this blog circa February 2005. What would happen if hunting and trapping were eliminated? Well, your taxes would go up,...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

When To Shoot a Wolf

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April 13, 2009 photo, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Two wolves standing over 2 dead sheep, previously killed by these same wolves ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Red Fox as Litmus Test

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. In "Management by Majority," conservation writer Ted Williams writes for Audubon magazine about the need to control wildlife ,...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Bear Population Growth

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The newest wildlife species to see a starling population explosion in the U.S. is the black bear. The black bear population of the United S...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Otter Ironies

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One of the ironies of wildlife management is that the very devices that pushed so much wildlife to the edge of extinction -- guns and traps...
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