Help - Is Wildlife Management Bad?
 

I am writing a research paper about wildlife management. I know the many benefits of wildlife management, but I need to include some disadvantages of wildlife management as well. I just can't think of any. :)

Do you have an example of where or when wildlife management can be a bad thing?

RE: Help - Is Wildlife Management Bad?
 

In the eyes of PETA and other similar idealist there would be no wildlife management (except for sterilization/contraceptive routes that have been proven to not work), so I would say that their non-management-management would lead to over populations with detrimental results.

RE: Help - Is Wildlife Management Bad?
 

Here are a couple of ideas:

[ul][*]Do certain types of wildlifemanagement favor wildlife over vegetation?[*]Who has control over management?[*]Who has the right to manage? Landowner? State? Other?[/ul]

RE: Help - Is Wildlife Management Bad?
 

Wildlife management is definitely not a bad thing. There are poor types of wildlife management (WM). WM without restriction, with over-restrictionor lack ofdirection is a 'bad' thing. All WM management has to have a scientific purpose.A lot ofWM management in the U.S. is directed toward satisfying a social purpose. In an area where there is an overpopulation of a certain speciesthe state is often reluctant to raise bag limits due to the fact that there is anintense pressure from outside entities to keep things the way they are because they are afraid that the resource will be diminished. Thismay even bethough the additionalharvest is within compensatory mortalitybounds. Compensatory mortality, if you do not know, is a hunting mortality that is less than that of natural mortality or, in other words, the animals that were harvested would have, intheory, died anyway due to natural causes.In short, social WM is bad relative to scientific WM just because of that...it is not scientific. There absolutely has to be a scientific base; especially if you are going to defend hunting against anti-hunting people/organizations.

RE: Help - Is Wildlife Management Bad?
 

I think you need to define the goal of "wildlife management" before you can answer your question. Generally, I suppose a definition could be "to use a variety of techniques to manipulate wild gamebird and/or mammal populations to hold their numbers at levels compatible with human interests and carrying capacity of the land". The negatives associated with wildlife management depend upon whose human interest is being served. Hunting is the primary tool for managing these populations. There are people who fear they'll be shot by someone hunting nearby. There are people who are disgusted by the sight of a dead deer strapped to the tailgate of a car. There are farmers who would just as soon see deer go extinct. There are birdwatchers who grieve at the loss of a woodduck. There are hunters who would like to see more game and have little concern for the farmers crops or suburbanite's shrubs. Maybe a good summary would be; "methods and objectives of wildlife managementcause conflicts between people with varying interests in the use and enjoyment of wildlife and the land on which it lives". Took awhile to get here, sorry.

RE: Help - Is Wildlife Management Bad?
 

Nothing is bad about it. There are only draw backs....

Takes work, money & time.
Ask my wife or any landowner's wife!!