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What is the definition of Wildlife management? |
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| The application of scientific knowledge and techincal skills to protect, conserve, limit, enhance, or create habitat. |
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| Resources the wildlife depend on for survival. |
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| What are wildlife managers mainly concerned with? |
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| What is the overall game management principal? |
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| To produce a continuous supply of game, what needs to occur? |
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| The rate of harvest cannot exceed the rate of population growth. |
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| European contact brought what disease to America? |
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| Small Pox. It decimated the non-immune Native Americans. |
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| What happened in the year 1700? |
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| It is believed 70-90% of Natives died. |
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| What did European contact do to the major predators and how did it effect prey? |
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| They removed them and that caused the number of prey to increase much. |
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What was the Era of the Mid 1900's?
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| The Era of game management |
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| What was the era of game management based off of? |
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| populations from the 1800's...which was bad. |
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| What was the era of the late 1900's? |
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| Ecological Conservation-management of habitat and game. |
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| What is extrapolation and Interpolation? |
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| Extrapolation is based off of no real data. Interpolation is. |
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| Domingus and Escalante reported that there was no deer where they were traveling. |
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| What year started the Era of the Fur Trappers when wildlife was scarce? |
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| What happened to the pioneers in 1847? |
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| What occurred in the 1880's? |
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| Livestock was spread throughout region. |
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| Why did vegetation move from grasses to forbs and shrubs? |
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| Over-grazing from cattle and loss of fire. |
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| In 1900, how many deer, Eld, Antelope, and bighorn was there? |
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10,00 deer
25 Elk
500 Antelope
200 Bighorn |
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In 1916, what program was created to help protect/control predators?
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| The Federal Predator Control Program. |
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| 1923, how many acres went to animal protection? |
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| What government program started in 1933? |
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| Deer population went up because of the greater number of shrubs and forbs. |
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| In 1951, what was the deer pop. and how many were killed? |
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| 300,000 with 101,000 killed |
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| In 1960, what was the Eld pop.? |
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| 1961, what was the peak in deer kill? |
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| What hunt was put into action by 1975? |
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| What was the Elk count by 1990? |
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| What is the current count of deer and what is the goal? |
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| 300,000 deer with a goal of 410,000. |
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| What is the current allowable deer harvest number per year? |
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| What is the current count of Elk? |
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| Why has there been such a great increase in the number of deer/elk? |
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1- Vegetation change
2- Restricted hunting
3- Year-round refuges
4- Predator control |
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| What are the 2 methods of population counts? |
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1- Ariel surveys (not effective)
2- Check stations |
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| What is the definition of Range? |
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| "Range" is a kind of Land, not a use. |
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What is the definition of Rangeland?
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Lands that will support vegetation but are too:
cold
dry
rocky
salty
steep
for permanent cultivation, providing habitat for wild and domestic animals. |
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| What % of the Earth's Surface is Range? |
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| What % of America's land of Range? |
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| WHat % of Utah's land is Range? |
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| What is the science and art of range management? |
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The science: is to develope concepts, theories, and management methods
The art: Application of concepts, theories, and management methods.(teachers) |
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| What is the definition of Range condition? |
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| The present status/health of the range in relation to its potential. |
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| What is succession and Retrogression? |
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Succession is the improment of land of based on management goal and
Retrogression is the declination of land health based on the land management goal. |
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| What is the climax of a natual community? |
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The natural communities supposed potential/highest state.
high seal
med seral
low seral |
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| What are the problems with climax? |
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1- do we know what climax is/was?
2- Is the climax most desirable?
3- Is the climax economically attainable?
4- Can we maintain the climax? |
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| What is the alternative concept to climaxes? |
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1- uses multiple stable states
2- thresholds
3-transitions
once over-grazing/fires occur you can't go back to old state. |
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| What is the definition of Range Trend? In managing land, what is most important? |
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The direction the range is moving.
Trend is more important than condition. |
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| Definition of Range site? |
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| Specific piece of land capable of producing a certain kind, amount, and proportion of vegetation. |
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| what is a key factor in determining a Range Site? |
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| What are the 4 basic principles of Range Management? |
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1- Keep the shoot down, kill the root
2- Nature abhors a vaccuum
3- Nature tries to put back the original vegetation
4- Soil moisture is the limiting factor on most range lands. |
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| 3 basic resources to consider |
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1-soil
2- water
3- vegetation |
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