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New Strategies to Manage MouflonPIERC Project Leader: Steven C. Hess, Ph.D. |
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Objectives: Determine social behavior for control strategies Technical assistance in trap and attractant designs Monitor the effect of management on abundance & reproduction |
| Accomplishments: Aerial survey for abundance estimation Ground surveys for reproduction NRPP (06) funding secured Preliminary report on abundance to NPS |
Significance: Alien herbivores in National Parks Rapidly expanding population Impacts on endangered plants Non-domesticated species more difficult to control |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
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