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Modern Wild Faunal Resource System Management
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An Alternative Course Outline

(possibly from Sharik, Vaughan, or Stauffer 1980s. An outline to be studied and possibly unified with Modern Wild Faunal Management Systems Possibly an alternative book of brief statements with a clear outline and minimum text)

I. Basic Concepts in Wildlife Management A. Unifying themes -

B.Major Components - Populations, Habitat, Man 1.Populations
  1. Population Density
  2. Population Structure
(1)Natality a.Size and number of clutches or litters per year b.Minimum/maximum breeding age c.Sex ratio and breeding habits (2)Mortality (a) Decimating factors (those that kill)
  1. Pre-natal and early-natal death
  2. Starvation
  3. Disease
  4. Accidents
  5. Predation
  6. Hunting
  7. Old age?
(b) Limiting factors ("welfare" or those that weaken)
  1. Lack of food and water
  2. Inadequate shelter
  3. Miscellaneous - deficiencies of minerals, lack of gravel, salt, low dissolved oxygen.
(3)Age-Sex Pyramid c. Population Dynamics
  1. Annual Cycle
  2. Population Fluctuations
    1. Stable
    2. Irruptive
    3. Cyclic
  3. Natality - innate, refined, etc.
d. Movement
  1. Migration
  2. Immigration
  3. Emigration
2. Habitat a.Wildlife
  1. Carrying Capacity
  2. Factors Influencing Carrying Capacity
    1. Food
    2. Cover
    3. Water
  3. Spatial diversity
  4. Limiting factors
b. (No text here???) 3.Man
  1. Wildlife values
  2. Use of wildlife resources
    1. Consumptive
    2. Non-consumptive

II. Traditional Tools of Game Management

  1. Refuges
  2. Hunting and trapping laws and regulations
  3. Restocking and introductions of exotics
  4. Predator control
  5. Habitat manipulation

III. General Concepts of Management

  1. Wildlife normally by-products of other land and water uses. Wildlife may be cropped as intelligently as any other product of the land and water.
  2. A given habitat has a specific carrying capacity for a given species of wildlife.
  3. A given habitat supports many species of wildlife - not only the species under management.
  4. A given population of wildlife may be increased by decreasing its limiting factor(s) or the population may be decreasing the limiting factors.

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