• Keynote speaker Chad Bishop: Colorado parks and wildlife 

        Author(s):Bishop, Chad
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats
      • Congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit - final program and abstracts 

        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; programs (documents); abstracts (summaries)
      • Supporting landscape-scale planning with decision support toolkits 

        Author(s):Crist, Patrick; Anderson, David
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Conservation decisions often come down to actions by individual private landowners, whether it be acquisition of easements, land or development rights; outreach and education, assistance with restoration, etc. To target ...
      • SYSMAS: a handy software to manage by SMS & Web interface notifications on HWC & other wildlife events… 

        Author(s):Le Bel, Sébastien; Chavernac, David; Breck, Stewart
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Human-wildlife conflicts have drastically increased around conservation areas in Africa in recent decades, thus undermining the peaceful cohabitation of wildlife populations and rural human settlements. Mitigation packages ...
      • Biodiversity indicators dashboard, The: monitoring biodiversity trend and conservation performance 

        Author(s):Han, Xuemei; Anderson, David
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Recognizing the imperiled status of biodiversity and its benefit to human well-being, the world's governments committed in 2010 to take effective and urgent action to halt biodiversity loss through the Strategic Plan for ...
      • Unmanned aerial systems to fight rhino poaching 

        Author(s):Koster, Jean; van Hoven, Wouter
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; presentations (communicative events)
        Rampant Rhino poaching is a key concern for Africa and specifically for Kruger National Park. Many conservation organizations concluded that to combat poaching new technology helps – such as GPS collars and unmanned aerial ...
      • Traditional and emerging methodology to educate the public about wild pigs 

        Author(s):Higginbotham, Billy; Cathey, Jim; Tyson, Mark; Higginbotham, Billy
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        The wild pig population in Texas is estimated at 2.6 million animals and damage to agronomic enterprises is conservatively estimated at $52 million annually. In response to this damage, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension ...
      • North American feral swine diseases: are we winning, yet? 

        Author(s):Jack, Skip; Higginbotham, Billy
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Swine have been around for many millennia, present in North America about one-half of one. They continue to expand their home ranges and unfortunately, they share several infectious diseases with our domestic animals and ...
      • Wild pig damage & conflicts 

        Author(s):Strickland, Bronson; Higginbotham, Billy
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        In North America, wild pigs have been a source of conflict since their introduction in the 1500's. The destructive foraging behavior, combined with a diverse omnivorous diet and prodigious reproductive capacity make the ...
      • Toxicants and contraceptives for feral swine in the US 

        Author(s):Foster, Justin; VerCauteren, Kurt; Eckerly, Doug; Higginbotham, Billy
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        With partners, we and others are working to develop and register toxicants and contraceptives for feral swine in the US. Our toxicant efforts are focused on using sodium nitrite (SN) as the active ingredient. We are assessing ...
      • Black-Footed Ferret Recovery Program 

        Author(s):Hughes, John; Morgan, Ken
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Despite a successful captive propagation and reintroduction program, the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) remains one the most endangered mammals in North America due to widespread lethal control of prairie dogs ...
      • Illinois landowner perceptions of feral hogs and their management 

        Author(s):Harper, Erin E.; Miller, Craig A.; Higginbotham, Billy
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Wild pigs were first found in western Illinois in the 1990s. Since this time pig presence has been confirmed in 23 of Illinois' 102 counties and persistent populations exist in four counties. Problems associated with these ...
      • How to use storytelling techniques to better communicate science & policy 

        Author(s):Calderazzo, John
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; presentations (communicative events)
        "Science is the greatest of all adventure stories," says physicist Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe. "It's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings ...
      • Private lands for public access: the Sutter Buttes of California 

        Author(s):Anderson, Walt; Anderson, David
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        The Sutter Buttes, the only mountain range in California's Central Valley, rise from an intensely cultivated, highly altered landscape. Fences divide the land by property ownership, keeping livestock in and trespassers ...
      • Saving Mali's desert elephants from war and poaching: a successful model of national and community engagement 

        Author(s):Martin, Vance; van Hoven, Wouter
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Do poor villagers need elephants? The local people of Central Mali (West Africa) -- many ethnicities and clans -- know that elephants attract the attention (and therefore the assistance) of the wider community -- national, ...
      • WPS's approach to Sumatran Rhino conservation in Indonesia 

        Author(s):Schmidt, Eric; van Hoven, Wouter
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS) is an international non-profit group dedicated to the conservation of endangered species. Our current focus is on the five species of rhinos, with a special emphasis on creating habitat ...
      • Congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit: summary 

        Author(s):Benson, Delwin E.
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; summaries; letters (correspondence)
        Includes: a brief summary of congress, a thank you note from Dr. Benson and a short video.
      • Efforts of the USDA national rabies management program for controlling rabies on private and public land, The 

        Author(s):Shwiff, Stephanie; Chipman, Rich; Nelson, Kathy; VerCauteren, Kurt; Slate, Dennis; Gilbert, Amy; Breck, Stewart
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Management of rabies in wildlife populations is complex and provides unique challenges for wildlife managers: one of the largest is the majority of land in the US where rabies occurs in wildlife is private. Rabies virus ...
      • Landscape conservation takes money: how conservation easements are revolutionizing habitat protection and management in the United States 

        Author(s):Manes, Stephanie; Riley, Terry
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        When land is privately or communally-owned, the self-interests of the property owners dictate the fate of the land. For some, generating money is the top priority; for others, keeping the land intact for future generations ...
      • Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory: stewardship, education, science 

        Author(s):Gallagher, Seth; Morgan, Ken
        Date Issued:2014-09
        Format:born digital; motion pictures (visual works); digital moving image formats; presentations (communicative events)
        Originating in 1999 as Prairie Partners, the program was to address declining bird trends on a landscape used for agricultural production. Private landowners own or manage a considerable percentage of this land. Their ...