Biology 433

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Biology 433 Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation
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Contact Information

• Dr. Samantha Wisely
• 111 Bushnell Hall
• phone [phone] 
• email wisely_at_ksu.edu

• Dr. Keith Gido
• 208 Bushnell Hall
• phone [phone] (office),
• 532-6616 (lab)
• email kgido_at_ksu.edu
• web page www.ksu.edu/fishecology/

Office hours by appointment  Course web page
http//www.ksu.edu/fishecology/wandfcons/syllabus.
htm 
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Objectives

• Introduction to wildlife and fisheries biology.
• Topics
• history of wildlife and fisheries conservation
  and management
• Wildlife and fisheries ecology
• Conservation and management in practice
• habitat management techniques
• animal management techniques
• Scientific tools

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Textbook

• Scalet, C.G., L.D. Flake, and D.W. Willis. 1996.
  Introduction to wildlife and fisheries an
  integrated approach. W.H. Freeman and Company,
  New York.

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Additional required reading

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold.

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Academic Misconduct

• "On my honor, as a student, I have neither given
  nor received unauthorized aid on this academic
  work."
• Visit the KSU Honor System Web Page for details
  http//www.ksu.edu/honor

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Grading

• 650 total points
• 550 from exams
• 4 midterm exams (100 pts each)
• 1 final (150 pts)
• 100 from 2 writing assignments

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Field trips and writing assignments

• Two self guided field trips
• Writing assignments that go with them.

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Todays Outline

• Defining wildlife and fisheries biology
• History of wildlife and fisheries biology

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• What is wildlife?
• Write down three examples of wildlife
• Game vs. non-game
• What is fisheries?
• Write down three examples of fisheries
• Refers to a target species, not confined to just
  fish

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What is wildlife and fisheries biology?
Habitat
Biota
Human User
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Grassland
Black-footed ferret
Farmer or rancher
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Mountain meadows
Elk
Hunters
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What is wildlife and fisheries biology?

• Journal of Wildlife Management in premier issue
  (1937)
• Wildlife management is the practical ecology of
  all vertebrates and their plant and animal
  associates
• Wildlife management along sound biological lines
  is part of the greater movement for conservation
  of our entire native flora and fauna

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Conservation vs. Management

• Management to manipulate with a goal in mind
• Conservation to sustain healthy or restore
  unhealthy populations
• Conservation is NOT Preservation
• Preservation leaving natural systems as they
  are
• Gifford Pinchot a forester for T. Roosevelt
• Lines have been blurred

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What is wildlife management?

• Game or stock management
• Endangered species management
• Non-game management
• Animal control
• Basic biology Natural history
• Habitat management - Restoration ecology
• People management

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• To keep every cog and wheel is the first
  precaution of intelligent tinkering
• Aldo Leopold

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The Science of Wildlife Management

• Game Management 1933
• 1) review the scientific literature
• 2) find answers to management problem with field
  and laboratory work
• 3) implement and evaluate remedies

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Who needs a wildlife or fisheries biologist?

• Municipal, state, federal, tribal agencies need
  biologists to manage and conserve
• Private sector needs biologists
• Law enforcement needs biologists
• Politicians need biologists

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History of Wildlife and Fisheries Biology

• Kublai Khan (1259-1294 AD) decreed that no taking
  of any animals from March to October

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History of Wildlife Management

• At the same time in Europe, wildlife was
  exploited for food with less regard for
  management
• Wildlife viewed as competitors

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History of Wildlife Management

• By 1700s only wildlife left was on property of
  nobles
• Wildlife and fish were owned by the king
• With his permission, nobles were granted the
  right to hunt

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Supreme Court declared that all property of the
king belonged to the people
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• 60 million to 150

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50 BILLION to 0
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A market for hunting

• American robins, plovers, curlews, sandpipers
  were sold in restaurants
• Swans, herons and egrets hunted for plumes

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No holds barred

• Waterfowl were shot with cannons loaded with shot
• Bison shot out of moving trains
• No seasons, no limits, no geographical
  restrictions
• The abundance of wildlife seemed limitless

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• Market hunting the trade or selling of wildlife
  for commerce
• Subsistence hunting the taking of wildlife for
  food
• Trophy hunting the taking of premium
  specimens

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• By early 1900s hunting opportunities were scarce
  and people began to realize that some sort of
  conservation and management of wildlife and
  fisheries were needed.

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Teddy Roosevelt 26th president
(1901-1909) Reserved 230 million acres for
public use
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