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Location
Roanoke, Virginia Tech
Start Date
16-10-1997 12:00 AM
Description
The author argues that an objective of a new group of people taking a systems approach to large wild animal problems should be to manage damage as a cost-reducing role within a total, profitable, long-term system, not necessarily to control the "pest." The needs are for well-grounded financial analyses both for customers, the public, the resources, and the well-being of the profession. A point of view is advanced for the need for evolving pest-related operations into a new, unique profession that is involved in a profound way as an element of a cost-effective total land and human resource production system.
Recommended Citation
Giles, R. H. (1997). Vertebrate damage management: The future of an evolving profession. In Parkhurst, J. A. (Ed.), The Eighth Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference (34-41). Roanoke, VA: Virginia Tech.
Vertebrate Damage Management: The Future of an Evolving Profession
Roanoke, Virginia Tech
The author argues that an objective of a new group of people taking a systems approach to large wild animal problems should be to manage damage as a cost-reducing role within a total, profitable, long-term system, not necessarily to control the "pest." The needs are for well-grounded financial analyses both for customers, the public, the resources, and the well-being of the profession. A point of view is advanced for the need for evolving pest-related operations into a new, unique profession that is involved in a profound way as an element of a cost-effective total land and human resource production system.