1. History of Wildlife Management
Humans colonize N.A. – Quaternary Period, Pleistocene Epoch – ice ages 10,000 ybp
Large mammal extinctions (exploitation?)
= 66% of megafauna extinct

2. History of Wildlife Management
500 ybp, Europeans arrive….
Spanish bring horses, livestock
Other Europeans exploit fisheries, fur, meat, feathers…. ( )

3. History of Wildlife Management
Fur trade & near extinction of beaver (Castor canadensis)

4. History of Wildlife Management
Fur trade & near extinction of beaver (Castor canadensis)
Market hunting
Near extinction of bison : 60M to ~150

5. History of Wildlife Management
Market hunting
Bison
Successful extinction of passenger pigeon
- immense abundance (400 km long, 1800)

6. History of Wildlife Management
Passenger pigeon
immense abundance (400 km long, 1800)
1878 – 3 months, 1.5 M pigeons from MI to market

7. History of Wildlife Management
Passenger pigeon
last sighting 1899
14-yr old boy shot last wild pigeon in Ohio (1900)
last captive pigeon died:
Male (1912)
Female (1914)

8. History of Wildlife Management
Habitat loss & Exploitation

9. History of Wildlife Management
Example:
wood ducks -
wild turkeys

10. History of Wildlife Management
Example: (MI)
American marten -
fisher

11. Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) Born in Burlington, IA Avid outdoorsman
Summers in MI’s Les Cheneaux Islands

12. Aldo Leopold Master’s in Forestry – Yale Univ. School of Forestry
19 yrs with USFS (NM/AZ)
1933 – Professor of Game Management, UW-Madison
Estella & Aldo

13. Aldo Leopold Avid birder Restoration ecology Phenology Conservationist
Sustainability
UW-Madison Arboretum

14. Father of Modern Wildlife Management
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac
Game Management
1st university wildlife program (UW-Madison)
co-founder The Wilderness Society
Land Ethic

15. The Professor

16. Leopold’s “Law”
of Interspersion
of Habitat

17. The Shack
‘to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.’

18. Aldo Leopold Legacy Center
Site of Leopold’s Death
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™
Locally-harvested wood
1st carbon neutral building
Annually, produce 110% of the energy consumed on site
Use 70% less energy than a typical 12,000 ft2 building built simply to code

19. Modern Wildlife Management

20. Benefits & Uses of Wildlife Resources
Economics
Consumption

21. Benefits & Uses of Wildlife Resources
Non-consumptive recreation -

23. National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

24. 1996-2006 Trends: Numbers (Millions)
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

25. 1996-2006 Trends: Expenditures (Billions of 2006 USD)
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

26. 2006 Trends Hunting Fishing
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

27. 1996-2006 Trends in MI: Numbers (thousands)
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

28. 1996-2006 Trends in MI: Expenditures (Millions of 2006 USD)
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation

29. Benefits & Uses of Wildlife Resources
Other benefits

30. Public Attitudes, Ethics, Values
Natural resources professionals =
Stakeholder groups are diverse:

31. Future for Wildlife
Teaming with Wildlife & State wildlife agency funding proposals – what is this?
Should non-consumptive users have a “tax” similar to anglers and hunters?
What proposals are being considered?