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Animal Damage Control Annual Reports --
Collection
Identifier: NWRC 0011
Abstract
The Animal Damage Control Reports arereports detailing the expenditures, employee statistics, and wildlife control activities each fiscal year in every state starting in the early 1900s. They document the activities of the National Wildlife Research Center’s predecessor, the Animal Damage Control Program, and the evolution of wildlife management practices over the course of a century. The oldest Animal Damage Control Reports on record are from the year 1915, slightly after the Division of...
Dates:
1915-2018
Electronics Unit Records --
Collection
Identifier: NWRC 0032
Scope and Contents
The Electronics Unit played a pivotal role in NWRC’s wildlife research history. Since the 1960s, biologists at the Center have utilized telemetry equipment to gather information about wildlife migration, behavior, physiological processes, and mortality. In conjunction with researchers, the Electronics Unit designed innovative and unique electronic devices and developed transmitters that were more reliable, longer lasting, and farther reaching than the equipment commercially available at...
Dates:
1967 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1999
Jackrabbit Research Station Records --
Collection
Identifier: NWRC 0016
Abstract
The Jackrabbit Research Station opened in 1963 in Twin Falls, Idaho. In 1972 the station’s research moved to predators, which remained the station’s main focus until it closed in 1992. The records in this collection were not all created at the Jackrabbit Research Station, but the records were maintained by scientists working at the site. For example, records pertaining to nutria were created during research in Houma, Louisiana by scientists who later transferred to the Jackrabbit...
Dates:
1929-1998, bulk dates 1960-1975
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
Philippines Field Station Records--
Collection
Identifier: NWRC 0040
Scope and Contents
The Philippines Field Station Records contains documents dated 1968-1980. This collection consists primarily of research records pertaining to rodent control efforts in the Philippines. These records are related to the International Programs Research Unit (IPRU) of the DWRC (predecessor to the NWRC) who worked cooperatively with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) during the late 1960s through the mid-1990s. Included in this collection are study plans, raw data,...
Dates:
1968 - 1980
WS Nebraska and Texas State Office Slides --
Collection
Identifier: NWRC 0056
Scope and Contents
The WS Nebraska and Texas State Office Slides Collection consists of two series of 35mm slides that are arranged alphabetically across seven boxes. The slides date from 1959 to 1996, with the bulk between 1980 and 1990. They document rodents, birds, predators, livestock, dogs, wildlife damage, animal damage control projects, and people.
Dates:
1959-1996; Majority of material found within 1980-1990
WS Nevada State Records --
Collection
Identifier: NWRC 0013
Abstract
The WS Nevada State Records document the history of the Nevada branch of Predatory Animal and Rodent Control from its beginnings in 1915 to works conducted through 1978. Included in the collection are
the developmental processes of the Nevada state legislature regarding wildlife management. The collection contains various correspondence, images, and reports regarding the disease, rodent, and predatory animal
control practices necessary to protect the health and safety of Nevada's...
Dates:
1914 - 1978
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- Subject: Rodents X
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- Subject
- Coyotes 3
- Zinc Phosphide 3
- Animal Damage Control Program (U.S.) 2
- Bears 2
- Birds 2
- Compound 1080 2
- Nutria 2
- Predators 2
- Rodent damage 2
- Agriculture 1
- Animal care 1
- Animal damage control 1
- Anticoagulant rodenticides 1
- Aviation hazards 1
- Baiting 1
- Bats 1
- Beavers 1
- Bird damage 1
- Bird strikes 1
- Birds--predation 1
- Coconuts 1
- Corn 1
- Crop damage 1
- Crops 1
- Deer 1
- Electric circuits 1
- Electric fences 1
- Electrofishing 1
- Fencing 1
- Ferrets 1
- Fields 1
- Forest damage 1
- Foxes 1
- Global Positioning System (GPS) 1
- International programs 1
- Jackrabbits 1
- Lethal control 1
- Livestock 1
- Livestock guarding dogs 1
- Livestock predation 1
- Mammal damage 1
- Mammals 1
- Manatees 1
- Mink 1
- Mountain lions 1
- Nevada, USA 1
- Nonlethal control 1
- People 1
- Pesticide registration 1
- Pesticides 1
- Pocket gophers 1
- Population surveys 1
- Prairie dogs 1
- Predation 1
- Predator control 1
- Predator damage 1
- Predator management 1
- Quelea 1
- Rabies 1
- Radio Telemetry 1
- Rats 1
- Rice 1
- Richardson's ground squirrels 1
- Rodent control 1
- Rodenticides 1
- Satellite telemetry 1
- Sea turtles 1
- Skunks 1
- Strychnine 1
- Telemetry 1
- Toxicants 1
- Trapping 1
- Vampire bats 1
- Voles 1
- Wildlife damage 1
- Wildlife diseases 1
- Wildlife habitats 1
- Wolves 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Animal Damage Control Program (U.S.) (ADC) 1
- Balser, Donald S. 1
- Besser, Jerome F. 1
- Bullard, Roger W. 1
- Connolly, Guy E. (1938-) 1
- Curnow, Richard D. 1
- Fagerstone, Kathleen A. 1
- Fall, Michael W. (1942) 1
- Gainesville, Florida Field Station 1
- Hilo, Hawaii Field Station 1
- Johnson, Richard E. 1
- Kalmbach, E. R. 1
- Knowlton, Frederick F. 1
- Matschke, George H. 1
- Olympia, Washington Field Station 1
- Philippines Field Station 1
- Savarie, Peter J. 1
- Seubert, John L. 1
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1
- United States. Bureau of Biological Survey (BBS) 1
- United States. Department of Agriculture. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Wildlife Services 1 + ∧ less
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