Besser, Jerome F.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bird Damage Unit Records --
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: NWRC 0010
Abstract
The Bird Damage Unit Records (NWRC 0010) document the activities of NWRC researchers from the early 1900s through the early 2000s as they worked to protect agricultural interests from bird depredations and disease, both domestically and abroad. The NWRC bird unit has worked with a diverse group of cooperators including airports, universities, farmers, feedlot operators, the U.S. military, and other associated researchers to effectively reduce bird damage to a variety of resources.
Dates:
1914 - 2008
Plaggmeyer, John R., 2005 - 2010
Sub-Series — Box 3: [Barcode: NWRC0005-S1-003], Folder: 1
Abstract
John R. Plaggemeyer reminisces about his past work for Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He talks about his experiences as a wildlife specialist and government trapper in rodent, animal damage and predator control (primarily coyotes) and the different methods used including poisons, snares, traps, compound 1080, aerial gunning, game calling, coyote-getters, M-44, hazing, livestock protection collars and...
Dates:
2005 - 2010
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- Subject: Avitrol X
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- Archival Object 1
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- Aerial hunting 1
- Airport bird control 1
- Aquaculture 1
- Beavers 1
- Bird banding 1
- Bird damage 1
- Bird depredation 1
- Bird populations 1
- Chemical repellents 1
- Compound 1080 1
- Cormorants 1
- Coyote getter 1
- Coyotes 1
- Foxes 1
- Frightening Devices 1
- Fruit damage 1
- Game calling 1
- Hazing 1
- Livestock Protection Collar 1
- Lures 1
- M-44 1
- Mesurol 1
- Methiocarb 1
- Mice 1
- North Dakota, USA 1
- Poultry farms 1
- Raccoons 1
- Rats 1
- Red squill 1
- Rodents 1
- Roosts 1
- Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge 1
- Sheep farming 1
- Snares 1
- Strychnine 1
- Sunflower damage 1
- Toxicants 1
- Trappers 1
- Trapping 1
- Wildlife management 1
- Wolves 1 + ∧ less
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