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History of Wildlife Management

History of Wildlife Management. Humans colonize N.A. – Quaternary Period, Pleistocene Epoch – ice ages 10,000 ybp. Large mammal extinctions (exploitation?) = 66% of megafauna extinct. History of Wildlife Management. 500 ybp, Europeans arrive…. Spanish bring horses, livestock

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History of Wildlife Management

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  1. History of Wildlife Management • Humans colonize N.A. – Quaternary Period, Pleistocene Epoch – ice ages 10,000 ybp • Large mammal extinctions (exploitation?) • = 66% of megafauna extinct

  2. History of Wildlife Management • 500 ybp, Europeans arrive…. • Spanish bring horses, livestock • Other Europeans exploit fisheries, fur, meat, feathers…. (1870-1915)

  3. History of Wildlife Management • Fur trade & near extinction of beaver (Castor canadensis)

  4. History of Wildlife Management • Fur trade & near extinction of beaver (Castor canadensis) • Market hunting • Near extinction of bison : 60M to ~150

  5. History of Wildlife Management • Market hunting • Bison • Successful extinction of passenger pigeon • - immense abundance (400 km long, 1800)

  6. History of Wildlife Management • Passenger pigeon • immense abundance (400 km long, 1800) • 1878 – 3 months, 1.5 M pigeons from MI to market

  7. History of Wildlife Management • Passenger pigeon • last sighting 1899 • 14-yr old boy shot last wild pigeon in Ohio (1900) • last captive pigeon died: • Male (1912) • Female (1914)

  8. History of Wildlife Management • Habitat loss & Exploitation

  9. History of Wildlife Management Example: wood ducks - wild turkeys -

  10. History of Wildlife Management Example: (MI) American marten - fisher -

  11. Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) • Born in Burlington, IA • Avid outdoorsman • Summers in MI’s Les Cheneaux Islands

  12. Aldo Leopold • Master’s in Forestry – Yale Univ. School of Forestry • 19 yrs with USFS (NM/AZ) • 1933 – Professor of Game Management, UW-Madison Estella & Aldo

  13. Aldo Leopold • Avid birder • Restoration ecology • Phenology • Conservationist • Sustainability UW-Madison Arboretum

  14. Father of Modern Wildlife Management • Aldo Leopold • A Sand County Almanac • Game Management • 1st university wildlife program (UW-Madison) • co-founder The Wilderness Society • Land Ethic

  15. The Professor

  16. Leopold’s “Law” of Interspersion of Habitat

  17. The Shack ‘to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.’

  18. Aldo Leopold Legacy Center • Site of Leopold’s Death • Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ • Locally-harvested wood • 1st carbon neutral building • Annually, produce 110% of the energy consumed on site • Use 70% less energy than a typical 12,000 ft2 building built simply to code

  19. Modern Wildlife Management

  20. Benefits & Uses of Wildlife Resources • Economics • Consumption

  21. Benefits & Uses of Wildlife Resources • Non-consumptive recreation • -

  22. National Survey ofFishing, Hunting, andWildlife-Associated Recreation

  23. 1996-2006 Trends: Numbers (Millions) National Survey ofFishing, Hunting, andWildlife-Associated Recreation

  24. 1996-2006 Trends: Expenditures (Billions of 2006 USD) National Survey ofFishing, Hunting, andWildlife-Associated Recreation

  25. 2006 Trends • Hunting • Fishing National Survey ofFishing, Hunting, andWildlife-Associated Recreation

  26. 1996-2006 Trends in MI: Numbers (thousands) National Survey ofFishing, Hunting, andWildlife-Associated Recreation

  27. 1996-2006 Trends in MI: Expenditures (Millions of 2006 USD) National Survey ofFishing, Hunting, andWildlife-Associated Recreation

  28. Benefits & Uses of Wildlife Resources • Other benefits

  29. Public Attitudes, Ethics, Values • Natural resources professionals = • Stakeholder groups are diverse:

  30. Future for Wildlife • Teaming with Wildlife & State wildlife agency funding proposals – what is this? • Should non-consumptive users have a “tax” similar to anglers and hunters? • What proposals are being considered? http://www.teaming.com/pdf/tww_history.pdf

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