Sentences with phrase «predator management»

n.a., Draft Environmental Assessment: Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan.

Below is a slightly reformatted version of the comments I submitted in response to the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan / Draft Environmental Assessment.

And court records show that in a number of other cases over the past 10 years federal judges have admonished U.S. wildlife agencies — namely Wildlife Services (WS), run by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)-- over what some see as scientific missteps and bureaucratic inefficiencies in predator management programs.

[106] Stephanie Larson, «The Marin County Predator Management Program: Will It Save the Sheep Industry?

While I agree completely that these methods are unacceptable, the «fully integrated range of nonlethal and lethal predator management strategies» proposed by FWS strike me as nothing more than business as usual.

No wonder that Stolzberg says that little has changed since the landmark Leopold Report of 1964 condemning the WS predator management practices.

In light of Larson's findings, it would seem clear that animal protectionists have not proven that trapping is an unnecessary component for effective predator management.

Doherty, T.S & Ritchie, E.G. (2016) Stop jumping the gun: a call for evidence based invasive predator management.

Predator management report for the protection of the San Clemente loggerhead shrike.

Inclusion of recreational take in the predator policy goes against the stated goal of modernizing predator management and contradicts current science.

I am writing to comment on the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan / Draft Environmental Assessment.

(But again, Oda's not alone: USFWS made a similar argument in their recent Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan / Draft Environmental Assessment.

«The proposals for the future of snaring represent the best possible balance between retaining an essential tool in predator management, which benefits many species of wildlife, whilst ensuring that the use of snare is conducted to the highest possible standards.»

Justification for Action After a thorough reading of the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex (FKNWRC) Integrated Predator Management Plan — along with several supporting documents (as described below)-- I am struck by how inadequately the IPMP / EA addresses several critical issues.

Steve Klett, Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge Manager I first ran across Klett's name in the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan / Draft Environmental Assessment, where he was cited as the source for the claim that «cats accounted for 77 percent of the mortality during a recent re-introduction of the Key Largo woodrat.»

«Given the overwhelming evidence of harm to native birds inhabiting and migrating through the Keys, this predator management plan offers hope for healthier environment.»

A couple weeks ago, the American Bird Conservancy released a statement in support of the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan / Draft Environmental Assessment proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS):

[11](USFWS misrepresents this, too, in its Predator Management Plan, once again omitting the number of mortalities: «Free - roaming domestic cat predation accounted for 50 percent of adult Lower Keys marsh rabbit mortality during radio telemetry studies...» [9]-RRB-

The Rest of the Best But what about all the rest of the science — the «best available,» according to Holmer, don't forget — that USFWS including in its Integrated Predator Management Plan / Draft Environmental Assessment?