Wolves Bears And Their Prey In Alaska

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Management of Wolf and Bear Populations in Alaska
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309064057

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Wolves, Bears, and Their Prey in Alaska by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Management of Wolf and Bear Populations in Alaska Pdf

This book assesses Alaskan wolf and bear management programs from scientific and economic perspectives. Relevant factors that should be taken into account when evaluating the utility of such programs are identified. The assessment includes a review of current scientific knowledge about the dynamics and management of large mammalian predator-prey relationships and human harvest of wildlife in northern ecosystems, and an evaluation of the extent to which existing research and management data allow prediction of the outcome of wolf management or control programs and grizzly bear management programs. Included is an evaluation of available economic studies and methodologies for estimating the costs and benefits of predator control programs in Alaska.

Author : Committee on Management of Wolf and Bear Populations in Alaska,Commission on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309073871

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Wolves, Bears, and Their Prey in Alaska by Committee on Management of Wolf and Bear Populations in Alaska,Commission on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council Pdf

This book assesses Alaskan wolf and bear management programs from scientific and economic perspectives. Relevant factors that should be taken into account when evaluating the utility of such programs are identified. The assessment includes a review of current scientific knowledge about the dynamics and management of large mammalian predator-prey relationships and human harvest of wildlife in northern ecosystems, and an evaluation of the extent to which existing research and management data allow prediction of the outcome of wolf management or control programs and grizzly bear management programs. Included is an evaluation of available economic studies and methodologies for estimating the costs and benefits of predator control programs in Alaska.

Author : Edward E. Bangs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951D01002722Z

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Return of a Predator by Edward E. Bangs Pdf

Author : L. David Mech
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816629595

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The Wolves of Denali by L. David Mech Pdf

For more than nine years the wolves in Alaska's Denali National Park were the subject of intense research by a group of renowned scientists led by L. David Mech. The result of their work is the most comprehensive study of a population of wolves and their prey ever available. This accessible, fascinating, and extensively illustrated book will appeal to researchers, general readers, and wolf enthusiasts across the world.

Author : Adolph Murie
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295802695

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The Wolves of Mount McKinley by Adolph Murie Pdf

In the time of Lewis and Clark, wolves were abundant throughout North America from the Arctic regions to Mexico. But man declared war on this cunning and powerful animal when cattle replaced the buffalo on the western plains, reducing the wolf’s range to those few areas in the Far North where economic necessity did not call for its extinction. Between 1939 and 1941, Adolph Murie, one of North America’s greatest naturalists, made a field study of the relationship between wolves and Dall sheep in Mount McKinley National Park (since renamed Denali National Park) which has come to be respected as a classic work of natural history. In this study Murie not only described the life cycle of Alaskan wolves in greater detail than has ever been done, but he discovered a great deal about the entire ecological network of predator and prey. The issues surrounding the survival of the wolf and its prey are more important today than ever, and Murie helps us understand the careful balance that must be maintained to ensure that these magnificent animals prosper. Originally available only in government publications which are long out-of-print, this account of a much maligned animal is now available in its first popular edition.

Author : John S. Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Animals
ISBN : UVA:X000582696

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Wolves, Bears, and Bighorns by John S. Crawford Pdf

Selected reprints from Alaska magazine and Outdoor Life. Well illustrated with colour and black and white photographs.

Author : L. David Mech
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226255286

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Wolves on the Hunt by L. David Mech Pdf

The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature—displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in its hunting—or more infamous, more misjudged—than the wolf. Because of wolves’ habitat, speed, and general success at evading humans, researchers have faced great obstacles in studying their natural hunting behaviors. The first book to focus explicitly on wolf hunting of wild prey, Wolves on the Hunt seeks to fill these gaps in our knowledge and understanding. Combining behavioral data, thousands of hours of original field observations, research in the literature, a wealth of illustrations, and—in the e-book edition and online—video segments from cinematographer Robert K. Landis, the authors create a compelling and complex picture of these hunters. The wolf is indeed an adept killer, able to take down prey much larger than itself. While adapted to hunt primarily hoofed animals, a wolf—or especially a pack of wolves—can kill individuals of just about any species. But even as wolves help drive the underlying rhythms of the ecosystems they inhabit, their evolutionary prowess comes at a cost: wolves spend one-third of their time hunting—the most time consuming of all wolf activities—and success at the hunt only comes through traveling long distances, persisting in the face of regular failure, detecting and taking advantage of deficiencies in the physical condition of individual prey, and through ceaseless trial and error, all while risking injury or death. By describing and analyzing the behaviors wolves use to hunt and kill various wild prey—including deer, moose, caribou, elk, Dall sheep, mountain goats, bison, musk oxen, arctic hares, beavers, and others—Wolves on the Hunt provides a revelatory portrait of one of nature’s greatest hunters.

Author : Ludwig N. Carbyn,Steven H. Fritts,Dale R. Seip,Canadian Circumpolar Institute
Publisher : Canadian Circumpolar Institute
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015038133982

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Ecology and Conservation of Wolves in a Changing World by Ludwig N. Carbyn,Steven H. Fritts,Dale R. Seip,Canadian Circumpolar Institute Pdf

This book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the Second North American Symposium on Wolves, held in Edmonton in August 1992.

Author : Marybeth Holleman,Gordon Haber
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781602232198

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Among Wolves by Marybeth Holleman,Gordon Haber Pdf

Alaska’s wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009. Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former hockey player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali’s wolves. He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber’s writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups, and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With the wolves at risk of being destroyed by hunting and trapping, his studies advocated for a balanced approach to wolf management. His fieldwork registered as one of the longest studies in wildlife science and had a lasting impact on wolf policies. Haber’s field notes, his extensive journals, and stories from friends all come together in Among Wolves to reveal much about both the wolves he studied and the researcher himself. Wolves continue to fascinate and polarize people, and Haber’s work continues to resonate.

Author : Bob Hayes
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781456610470

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Wolves of the Yukon by Bob Hayes Pdf

The Yukon wolf is the largest race of Canis lupus in the world. There are 5,000 wolves in the territory. Wolves live in all Yukon mountain ranges hunting Dall's sheep and caribou in the high alpine. In the forested valleys they hunt moose, the ideal prey size for packs to handle. Regional wolf numbers depend on the number of moose in the area. Packs are territorial except in the far north where wolves migrate long distances to follow the Porcupine caribou herd year-round. --From book cover.

Author : Adolph Murie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005839868

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The Wolves of Mount McKinley by Adolph Murie Pdf

Based on a field study of the ecological relationship between the timber wolf (Canis lupus pambasileus) and the Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli), 1934-41; includes sections on the ecology of the caribou, moose, grizzly bear, red fox (Vulpes kenaiensis), and golden eagle.

Author : Jim Rearden
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780882409337

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The Wolves of Alaska by Jim Rearden Pdf

Jim Rearden is Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82 he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details with historical accuracy the controversy that erupted when the 1975 program was announced. Counterpointing the modern controversy, Rearden includes exciting segments of his best-selling Alaska's Wolf Man, the story of Frank Glaser, Alaska's full-time government wolf hunter who hunted wolves in the Territory of Alaska 1915-1955. Alaska’s wolves are the main characters in this historically and biologically accurate recounting. Included are vivid anecdotes about wolves with descriptions of their behavior and way of life, examples of their intelligence, and expressions of appreciation for their charm and beauty, as well as an honest look at their savage efficiency as predators and relationship to urban and rural Alaskans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ungulates
ISBN : UCBK:C084199689

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Investigation of Wolf Population Response to Intensive Trapping in the Presence of High Ungulate Biomass by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gene Caesar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Carnivora
ISBN : UIUC:30112012508666

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The Wild Hunters by Gene Caesar Pdf

The animals described in this book are carnivora or predators. Like men, they eat the flesh of other animals. Most of these creatures face extinction within the next fifty years. The generations to come will find them only in textbooks and museums. - Introduction.

Author : Jack Ballard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780762791224

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Wolves by Jack Ballard Pdf

Wolves: A Falcon Field Guide presents readers with substantive yet easily digestible information on this most feared yet misunderstood predator. Where do wolves live? What enemies do they have? How do they communicate? What issues exist in the controversial relationship between wolves and humans? This book contains all the information you need to know to become familiar with these fascinating animals. Accompanied by numerous full-color photos of wolves in their natural habitat, this handy field guide makes an excellent take-home souvenir and reference for anybody interested in wolves.