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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
Bureau of Biological Survey Field Reports and Maps ---
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: NWRC 0030
Abstract
The predecessor of the Bureau of Biological Survey (BBS) was established under the Department of Agriculture in 1885 to study the economic relation of birds to agriculture. The mission of the division evolved over the years to include the study of mammals, as well as to include predator and rodent control activities. In 1905, the division became known as the Bureau of Biological Survey. In 1940, the Bureau of Fisheries merged with the BBS to form the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under...
Dates:
1900 - 1955; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1920
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- Subject: Depredation X
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- Airport bird control 1
- American bison 1
- Aquaculture 1
- Avitrol 1
- Bears 1
- Beavers 1
- Bird banding 1
- Bird damage 1
- Bird depredation 1
- Bird populations 1
- Blackbirds 1
- Burrowing animals 1
- Chemical repellents 1
- Cormorants 1
- Coyotes 1
- Demonstration farms 1
- Demonstration forests 1
- Depredation 1
- Field experiments 1
- Frightening Devices 1
- Fruit damage 1
- Ground squirrels 1
- Indian reservations 1
- Jackrabbits 1
- Mesurol 1
- Methiocarb 1
- Mice 1
- Muskrats 1
- National forests 1
- Pocket gophers 1
- Poisons 1
- Prairie dogs 1
- Predatory animals 1
- Public lands 1
- Rats 1
- Reforestation 1
- Rodent control 1
- Roosts 1
- Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge 1
- Strychnine 1
- Sunflower damage 1
- Trapping 1
- Western United States 1
- Wolves 1
- Yellowstone National Park 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Besser, Jerome F. 1
- Bowles, Walter A., Jr. 1
- Bullard, Roger W. 1
- Davis, James E. , Jr. 1
- DeGrazio, John W. 1
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