Balser, Donald S.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Linhart, Sam (Samuel B.), 2005 - 2010
Sub-Series — Box 2: [Barcode: NWRC0005-S1-002], Folder: 2
Abstract
Sam Linhart reminisces about his past work for Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He speaks of his experiences as a government trapper in predator control and research (primarily canines and bats) and the different methods used including traps, toxicants, deterrents, and contraceptives. Linhart discusses his research on non-lethal control and humane trapping as well as toxicant and trapping work with rabid...
Dates:
2005 - 2010
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Bats X
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 1
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Animal Damage Control Program (U.S.) 1
- Animal care 1
- Bears 1
- Beavers 1
- Bird strikes 1
- Birds 1
- Compound 1080 1
- Contraception 1
- Coyotes 1
- Deer 1
- Deterrents 1
- Fencing 1
- Ferrets 1
- Forest damage 1
- Fox trapping 1
- Foxes 1
- Georgia, USA 1
- Lethal control 1
- Livestock guarding dogs 1
- Mammal damage 1
- Mexico 1
- Mink 1
- New York, USA 1
- Nonlethal control 1
- Nutria 1
- Pesticide registration 1
- Pesticides 1
- Pocket gophers 1
- Population surveys 1
- Prairie dogs 1
- Predator management 1
- Richardson's ground squirrels 1
- Rodenticides 1
- Rodents 1
- Skunks 1
- Telemetry 1
- Trappers 1
- Trapping 1
- Voles 1
- Wildlife conservationists 1
- Zinc Phosphide 1 + ∧ less
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