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| Viruses, Bacteria, Protozoa |
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| Arthropods, Nematodes, Flatworms |
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| Disease caused by endemic parasites, stays with host for large portion of hosts life, non lethal |
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| Disease that's short term, and often fatal |
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| Effects of enzootic disease |
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| Reduced birth rate (small clutch, nest desertion, mating delays), Increased mortality rates |
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| Effects of epizootic disease |
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| Intermittent effect, outbreaks spread rapidly, quiescent phase, most microparasites |
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| Main reasons early predator control seen necessary |
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| Protection of the livestock industry and national economy |
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| Investigative report on the branch of predator and rodent control that found widespread abuse |
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| Recommendations of Leopold Report |
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| Control only offending individuals, substantiate need for control, less poison use and more non-lethal control, name change |
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| Report recommending toxic chemicals be burned, professionals used for predator control, insurance programs for livestock owners, revocation of grazing permits, broaden research programs, aircraft shooting by permit only |
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| Ways preadators can affect prey populations |
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| High level of mesopredators, exotic predators |
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| # Prey killed/prey abundance |
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| Problems with wildlife service today |
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| Not cost effective, not feasable over wide area or extended periods, lack of protection for rare and endangered |
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| Main factor in prey selection |
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| Model species for predator control |
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| Shearwaters in new zealand |
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| Influenced by number of hunters and number of animals a given hunter harvests |
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| Regulations influencing harvest rate |
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| Bag limits, season length, special licenses, hunting zones |
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| Other factors affecting harvest rate |
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| Poaching, unretrieved losses, incidental take |
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| Makes hunting compensatory |
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| Species that sustain high hunting rates |
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| Species less resilient to hunting |
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| Rationale for male based harvest |
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| Many game species are polygynous, less males needed |
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| Idea of harvesting populations at same rate of growth |
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| Maximum sustained yield (optimal yield) |
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| Way the industrial revolution increased sport hunting |
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| More had wealth and increased leisure time |
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| Time when sport hunters began to appear |
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| Founded in 1887 by teddy roosevelt focusing on preserving game in yellowstone |
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| Main problems faced by B&C club |
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| Timber theft and poaching |
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| Number of birds banded by boring speaker guy |
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| Time cattle began to arrive in america |
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| Time where cattle became business and grazing problems arose |
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| Taylor grazing act (1934) |
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| Act passed to end dust bowl, administered by bureau of land management, and set grazing districts |
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| Ways livestock negatively affects wildlife |
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| Nest trampling, lower nest density, reduced nesting cover and food |
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| Grazing promotes high populations of this species, prey to ferrets, do not compete with cattle for food although considered pests |
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| Area of U.S that is home to many cattle ranches and 70% of land is grazed |
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| Percentage of adult sheep killed by predators (>74% coyote) annually |
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| Percentage of adult lambs killed by predators (>74% coyote) annually |
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| Ungulate species' that compete for food and cause controversy |
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| Method of grazing control where pastures are grazed after seed ripe or livestock aren't allowed to graze at all |
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| Bureau of land management |
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| In the department of the interior, administers largest amount of federal land (12.5% of US landmass) |
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| Mineral leasing act (1920) taylor grazing act (1934) |
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| Key accomplishments of bureau of land managment (founded 1946) |
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| Controversial species introduced in 1519 that are accused of competing with cattle for food and habitat |
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| Wild free-roaming horse and burro act of 1974 |
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| Act protecting, and managing horse and burro herds on public land (BLM) |
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| Number of wild horses and burros managed |
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| Percentage of BLM horse and burros budget used for care of off-range horses |
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| Dying program for control of horse populations where gov't gives horses but controls them for 1 year after giving |
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| Species dying off because of habitat loss, degradation, fragmentation, altered fire regimes, invasive species, pesticide application, grazing, energy extraction |
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| Bureau of land management has remaining >50% of this plant (seen as undesirable for livestock) |
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| Public rangelands improvement act (1978) |
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| Act passed to focus management on livestock forage, removing woody plants, and use rest-rotation grazing |
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| Biggest lunchbox known to mankind (1990-present) |
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| I am the definition of definiton |
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