Wildlife Basics
This term means wild, free-ranging, undomesticated animals.
What is wildlife?
The value category covering license fees, gear sales, and ecotourism dollars.
What is economic value?
The era when colonists believed wildlife was an endless resource.
What is the Era of Abundance?
The first federal wildlife law (1900), banning interstate trafficking of illegally taken wildlife.
What is the Lacey Act?
This funding model means the people who use a resource pay for its conservation.
What is user-pay, user-benefit?
A species that is legally hunted or trapped under regulation.
What is a game species?
The value category covering pollination, seed dispersal, and pest control.
What is ecological value?
The era of unregulated market hunting that drove the passenger pigeon extinct.
What is the Era of Exploitation?
This 1918 law protects birds that cross state and international lines.
What is the Migratory Bird Treaty Act?
This wildlife biologist and author is considered the father of the Era of Game Management.
Who is Aldo Leopold?
A species not legally hunted, often protected (example: songbirds, hawks).
What is a non-game species?
The value category covering hunting, fishing, birdwatching, and photography.
What is recreational value?
The era that produced the first national park and the first federal wildlife law.
What is the Era of Protection?
This 1937 act places an excise tax on firearms and ammunition to fund state wildlife agencies.
What is the Pittman-Robertson Act?
These are the 4 essential components of wildlife habitat.
What are food, water, cover, and space?
Unlike a livestock producer, a wildlife manager generally cannot do this to the population.
What is directly control/own/fence it?
The value category covering beauty and the idea wildlife has worth simply by existing.
What is esthetic/intrinsic value?
The era shaped by Aldo Leopold that focused on managing habitat scientifically.
What is the Era of Game Management?
This 1934 act requires waterfowl hunters to buy a stamp that funds wetland habitat purchases.
What is the Duck Stamp Act?
This bird species was delisted from the Endangered Species List in 2007 after DDT was banned.
What is the bald eagle?
The main tool a wildlife manager uses to influence a population, since they can't control animals directly.
What is habitat / regulations?
The value category covering community identity and tradition tied to wildlife.
What is social/cultural value?
The era focused on whole ecosystems, biodiversity, and endangered species.
What is the Era of Environmental Management?
This 1973 act protects species at risk of extinction and the habitat they depend on.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This is the main difference in HOW wildlife management approaches its work compared to animal science.
What is managing habitat/populations vs. controlling individual owned animals?