Land Use and Wildlife Resources -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Historical Perspective -- PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS IN NORTH AMERICA -- Aftermath of Glaciation -- Disturbance Communities -- Animal Influences -- Fire -- Influences of Indian Agriculture -- EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT -- The Fur Trade -- Westward Expansion -- Changes on the Land -- Effects on Wildlife -- LAND-USE PLANNING -- BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 Wildlife Values in a Changing World -- HUMAN SUBSISTENCE BY GATHERING AND HUNTING -- MAN IN THE FOOD CHAIN -- COMMERCE AND ATTITUDES -- Ways to Extinction -- Jeopardy of the Migrants -- Wild Commodities Today -- RECREATION: THE NEW PERSPECTIVE -- The Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission and Its Consequences -- Difficulties in Acquiring Land -- FISHING AND HUNTING SURVEYS -- Markets for Gear and Services -- Incentives and Realities -- MEASURING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL VALUES -- Traditional Assumptions -- Quantity versus Quality -- Living Standard and Environment -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 New Patterns on Land and Water -- MODERNIZATION OF AGRICULTURE -- Trend toward Large Cropping Units -- Causes and Effects -- Ownership and Tenancy -- Impacts of Change -- Gains and Losses in the Agricultural Base -- New Croplands by Irrigation -- Added Acres through Drainage -- Changes in Forested Lands -- Adjustments in Grassland Area -- Land as Living Space -- CHANGES IN WATERS AND WETLANDS -- Inland Lakes and Marshes -- Coastal Lowlands and Estuaries -- Rivers and Floodplains -- Man-made waters -- Tanks, Ponds, and Small Impoundments -- Large Reservoirs -- PROBLEMS OF REMNANT ECOSYSTEMS -- The Disappearing Grasslands -- Tall Brush of the Rio Grande -- Florida Everglades -- Preservation of Natural Areas -- PUBLIC LANDS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES -- REFERENCES.

CHAPTER 4 Influence of Land Management on Wildlife -- MULTIPLE USE -- Policies on Public Lands -- Applications on Private Lands -- FOREST AND WOODLAND MANAGEMENT -- Wildlife Habitat Objectives -- Interspersion of Types -- Water Conditions -- Timber Management Practices -- Rotations and Cutting Cycles -- Reforestation and Afforestation -- Prescribed Burning -- Logging -- RANGE AND PASTURE LANDS -- Effects of Livestock on Wildlife Habitat -- Vegetation Changes -- Modification of the Fauna -- Soil and Water Changes -- Management of Livestock Grazing -- Brush Country Problems -- Mesquite -- Juniper -- Sagebrush -- California Chaparral -- Other Brushlands -- Range Seeding -- WILDLIFE ON CROPLANDS -- Intensively Managed Farms -- Diversified Farms -- Habitat Objectives -- Contour Agriculture -- Cultural Practices -- Problem Sites and Wildlife Plantings -- Management Appraisal -- Natural Successions -- Sponsored Government Programs -- WILDLIFE OF URBAN AREAS -- PROSPECT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 Special Problems of Waters and Watersheds -- WETLANDS OF THE NORTHERN PRAIRIES -- Pothole Losses, Past and Present -- Regulation and Mitigation of Drainage -- Public Acquisition and Easements -- The Changing View -- NEW WATERS IN THE BREEDING RANGE -- SMALL WATERSHEDS AND PUBLIC LAW 83-566 -- Problems of Direction and Emphasis -- Needed Coordination -- WATERSHED OVERVIEW -- Siltation-Product of Disturbance -- Mining the Watershed -- WILDLIFE IN WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 Pesticides and Wildlife -- THE NEED FOR PESTICIDES -- The Biological Struggle -- The Need for More Food -- Public Health -- Economic Stress -- Standards of Quality -- ASSESSMENT OF THE PESTICIDE PROBLEM -- REGULATING THE USE OF PESTICIDES -- PRODUCTION AND USE OF PESTICIDES -- OUTLOOK FOR IMPROVED PEST-CONTROL PRACTICES -- PESTICIDES AS POLLUTANTS -- Toxicity.

Chemical Stability -- Solubility -- Mobility -- Biological Magnification -- MONITORING PESTICIDES IN THE ENVIRONMENT -- PESTICIDES IN WILDLIFE AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE -- IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 Wildlife Damage and Control -- PREDATION AND THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY -- WILDLIFE CONFLICTS WITH CROPS -- WILDLIFE PROBLEMS INVOLVING THE FOREST AND RANGE -- NONAGRICULTURAL WILDLIFE PROBLEMS -- POSITIVE VALUES OF PREDATORS AND RODENTS -- POTENTIAL OF LARGE PREDATORS FOR SPORT HUNTING -- FEDERAL PREDATOR AND RODENT CONTROL -- The Leopold Report -- Official Acceptance of the Leopold Report -- NEED FOR DAMAGE CONTROL RESEARCH -- LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 Legislation and Administration -- JURISDICTIONS -- STATE RESPONSIBILITIES -- National and International Functions -- Legal Basis of State-Federal Cooperation -- STATE CONTROL OF GAME AND FISH HARVEST -- PUBLIC ACCESS TO PRIVATE LANDS AND WATERS -- Trespass Laws and Enforcement -- Programs to Encourage Access -- Liability Laws -- DEVICES FOR LIMITING THE NUMBER OF HUNTERS -- BIG GAME HUNTING REGULATIONS -- LEGISLATION CONCERNING PREDATORS AND NUISANCE ANIMALS -- Bounty Systems -- Protection of Predatory Animals -- Legal Impediments to Blackbird Control -- FUNDING OF WILDLIFE ADMINISTRATION -- WATER LAW IN RELATION TO FISH AND WILDLIFE -- THE TAX DEDUCTION INFLUENCE IN RESOURCE USE -- GROWING EMPHASIS ON HABITAT -- THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 Evaluation and Conclusions -- THE POPULATION VARIABLE -- HIGHEST USE AND SOCIAL NEED -- AN OVERVIEW -- The Worth of Wildlife -- Management of Brushlands -- Control of Birds and Mammals -- Protection of Waters and Wetlands -- River Basin Policy -- The Open Lands -- REFERENCES.