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Beaver
North America. The trappers began ruthlessly exploiting this new source, and as the beaver populations close to the coast were depleted, the trappers began moving inland. In fact, it was ...
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Maryland Marine Notes: March-April 1996 Spotlight - Green Crabs: An Endless Invasion?
Martha's Vineyard are descendants of the first influx that began more than 150 years ago. Their ancestors reached the Atlantic coast ... from New Jersey to Cape Cod. In the early 1900s, they began spreading northwards, ranging up through Maine and the maritime provinces of ... large male crab in his gill net. The next summer bait trappers began finding green crabs in lagoons along the west side of the ...
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Extinction: The Story of the Passenger Pigeon
The real onslaught began with the onset of large-scale commercial hunting carried out by well-organised trappers and shippers in order to supply the developing cities on the east coast of the United States with a cheap source of meat. It began ...
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Under Fire: Maine's Coyote Snaring Program Feels the Heat from Feds, Activists, Budget Cuts
Skip Trask of the Maine Trappers’ Association couldn’t be reached for confirmation. Maine Audubon Society ... over the inhumane killing of coyotes. Although the snaring season began on Dec. 1, IFW’s final policy wasn’t in ... it is preparing a rule that will exempt from prosecution trappers taking lynx incidentally in lawful hunting and trapping programs. Development ...
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Calculating the Costs of Maine's Coyote Snaring Program
A modest coyote snaring program began 20 years ago with little fanfare, and cost wasn’ ... , killing the fecund critters became popular among hunters and trappers – and the state reimbursed them for their time and vehicle mileage ... a couple of small but highly effective special interest groups" – the trappers’ association and the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine. Those organizations ...
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American Marten - WDNR
With the arrival of European settlers, trappers and lumbermen who cut forests and trapped martens without any regulations, marten populations declined. ... been extirpated from the state. Efforts at reestablishing an American marten population in Wisconsin began in 1953, when the Wisconsin Conservation Department imported five animals from Montana and ...
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The Ecobeetle Eco-Calendar - This day in Environmental History
South Polar region as an international scientific reserve. 1997 - Conference on global warming began in Kyoto, Japan. Goal of conference was to set limits for carbon dioxide emissions by ... . December 19, 1989 -Global Environmental Protection Assistance Act approved. December 20, 1824 - A party of trappers set out from an outpost of the Hudson’s Bay Company for the Snake River ...
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Mountain Wetlands of the Colorado Plateau
As channels cut deeper water tables were lowered and surface sediments began ...
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Riparian Area Loss and Degradation on the Colorado Plateau
Colorado Plateau began in the early 19th century with the near extirpation of the region's beaver population by fur trappers. Beavers play an important role in ...
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Gray Wolf - WDNR
Explorers, trappers and settlers transformed Wisconsin's native habitat into farmland, hunted elk and bison to extirpation, and reduced deer populations. As their prey species declined, wolves began to feed ... . Much has been learned about wolf ecology in northern Wisconsin. In 1992 the Department began a research project to determine the impact of highway development in northwest Wisconsin on ...
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