Besser, Jerome F.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mammal Damage Unit Records --
Collection
Identifier: NWRC 0034
Abstract
Over the years, the Mammal Damage Unit of the DWRC/NWRC conducted research on coyote predation on livestock; rodent damage to crops, rangeland, and buried cables; and damage to timber production and reforestation efforts caused by deer, bear, and rodents, particularly pocket gophers. The Unit also studied the use of pesticides as well as methods to identify and develop non-lethal or non-chemical alternative management methods for specific wildlife problems.
Dates:
1909 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1990
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Compound 1080 X
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- Archival Object 1
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Aerial hunting 1
- Animal Damage Control Program (U.S.) 1
- Animal care 1
- Avitrol 1
- Bats 1
- Bears 1
- Bird strikes 1
- Birds 1
- Blackbirds 1
- Coyote getter 1
- Deer 1
- Fencing 1
- Ferrets 1
- Forest damage 1
- Game calling 1
- Hazing 1
- Lethal control 1
- Livestock Protection Collar 1
- Livestock guarding dogs 1
- Lures 1
- M-44 1
- Mammal damage 1
- Mice 1
- Mink 1
- Nonlethal control 1
- North Dakota, USA 1
- Nutria 1
- Pesticide registration 1
- Pesticides 1
- Pocket gophers 1
- Population surveys 1
- Poultry farms 1
- Prairie dogs 1
- Predator management 1
- Raccoons 1
- Rats 1
- Red squill 1
- Richardson's ground squirrels 1
- Rodenticides 1
- Sheep farming 1
- Skunks 1
- Snares 1
- Strychnine 1
- Telemetry 1
- Trappers 1
- Trapping 1
- Voles 1
- Wildlife management 1
- Wolves 1
- Zinc Phosphide 1 + ∧ less
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