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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
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
Donald Hawthorne Animal Damage Control History Collection --
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: NWRC 0033
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of documents and photographs dated 1884 to 2004, with the bulk falling from 1915 to 1995. Records in this collection were collected by Hawthorne and document the history of federally sponsored Animal Damage Control (ADC) programs in the United States. Working files related to Hawthorne’s work with the ADC program are minimal. This collection is arranged into two series based on material type.
Series I consists of two boxes of documents including...
Dates:
1884 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1995
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- American bison 1
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- Burrowing animals 1
- Coyote getter 1
- Demonstration farms 1
- Demonstration forests 1
- Depredation 1
- Field experiments 1
- Ground squirrels 1
- Indian reservations 1
- Jackrabbits 1
- Legislation 1
- Mice 1
- Mountain lions 1
- Muskrats 1
- National forests 1
- Pocket gophers 1
- Poisons 1
- Prairie dogs 1
- Predator control 1
- Predatory animals 1
- Public lands 1
- Rabies 1
- Rats 1
- Reforestation 1
- Rodents 1
- Strychnine 1
- Toxicants 1
- Trappers 1
- Trapping 1
- Trapping equipment 1
- Western United States 1
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- Hawthorne, Donald W. 1
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1
- United States. Bureau of Biological Survey (BBS) 1
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