The scope of wildlife damage management activities continues to expand.
For example, increased populations of urban, resident Canada geese pose
nuisance/contamination problems in many municipalities throughout the
United States. New wildlife diseases (e.g., hantavirus, bovine TB, chronic
wasting disease) pose risks to human health, livestock production and
wildlife populations. Predators (i.e., red fox) can deter recovery efforts
for certain endangered/threatened species (i.e., California least tern).
Essentially, 4 parameters characterize the economics of wildlife damage
management activities:
- crop (resource) value,
- crop (resource) damage,
- cost of the wildlife-management method (i.e., both personnel and
materials) and
- effectiveness of the damage reduction.
This project seeks to quantify benefits and costs of new, and traditional,
wildlife management activities. What are the "real" costs
and returns of intervening with repellents, relocations, removals, rodenticides,
etc. to limit the effects of certain wildlife upon agriculture, natural
resources, or public health?
Project Leader: Dr.
Ray T. Sterner,
(ray.t.sterner@aphis.usda.gov)
USDA/APHIS/WS/NWRC
4101 LaPorte Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80521
(970) 266-6170
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