Strengthening links between waterfowl research and management

Roberts, Anthony J.; Eadie, John M.; Howerter, David W.; Johnson, Fred A.; Nichols, James D.; Runge, Michael C.; Vrtiska, Mark P.; Williams, Byron K.

doi:10.1002/jwmg.21333

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“…The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WI DNR) periodically surveys the state's waterfowl hunters (i.e., duck and goose hunters) to assess their level of satisfaction with regulations, opportunities, and their hunting experiences as a means of heeding the call to incorporate hunter preferences into adaptive management (Roberts et al ). We mined the long‐term data set of these survey results to investigate the role of hunter behavior in explaining differences in satisfaction ratings of Wisconsin duck hunters with an eye on improving experiences.…”

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Meeting harvest expectations is key for duck hunter satisfaction

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Current literature suggests that seeing and bagging game, among other experiences, play a major role in overall satisfaction for hunters. In addition, research highlights relationships that harvest expectations may have with harvest success and in explaining satisfaction. We add to the multiple satisfactions concept that, despite other derived benefits, harvest success may be fundamental to sustain participation and duck (Anatidae) hunters themselves are agents of their own success. We used data from mail surveys conducted between 2007-2015 of Wisconsin, USA, waterfowl hunters to investigate the role of duck hunter behavior and expectations in explaining differences in season satisfaction ratings. We found that duck hunters who spent more days afield, scouted prior to hunting, were mobile during the season, and utilized public lands harvested substantially more ducks than those who did not put effort into these behaviors. Furthermore, we find evidence in support of previous work that by examining the effect of harvest success through the lens of harvest expectations, it better describes satisfaction than either measure did alone among this population of duck hunters. Based on past experiences, duck hunters may develop unrealistic expectations that doom them to dissatisfactory harvests. These results provide assistance to managers and conservationists in helping hunters understand and set realistic harvest expectations, achieve their harvest goals, and continue to be active hunters.Ó 2019 The Wildlife Society.

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“…For example, Sharp et al (2014) found that in a large survey of the beliefs and attitudes of the Australian general public towards kangaroo management, that although commercial kangaroo harvesting enjoyed a high level of support from the general public there was concern about its animal welfare impacts. Although stakeholders consulted during the development of AHM included a wide range of representatives -federal, state, and provincial governments; academics; non-government organisations; and waterfowl-interested citizenry -it did not include representatives from animal protection groups (NAWMP Committee and others 2012; Roberts et al 2018), and it would be important that delegates from these groups are involved in any active adaptive management program developed for the management of kangaroos.…”

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Balancing stakeholder interests in kangaroo management – historical perspectives and future prospects

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2019

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Kangaroos are commercially harvested in five mainland states of Australia, with the harvest regulated by state government wildlife management agencies and overseen by the Commonwealth government. Non-commercial culling is permitted, and although most kangaroos have traditionally been taken by the commercial kangaroo harvesting industry, the proportion taken non-commercially has increased in recent years. Management plans that guide the regulation of the harvest support the management objectives of wildlife management agencies and the kangaroo industry, but the plans do not successfully address the objectives of other stakeholders including pastoralists and animal protection groups, which focus on minimising the grazing impacts of kangaroos and animal welfare issues respectively. We reviewed the objectives outlined in the management plans for kangaroos in the Australian rangelands and examined alternative systems for managing natural resources to identify if improvements to management could be made. Current management plans for kangaroos principally use fixed harvest rates that are responsive only to the state of the kangaroo population and not to changes in the environments in which kangaroos live. This type of management is reactive, and opportunities for improving management of the environment are limited. A viable alternative is active adaptive management which focuses on explicit measurement of the response of the natural system to management actions and use of this information to modify interventions to better meet management objectives. Active adaptive management is appropriate when management actions can strongly influence system state but the impacts of management are uncertain. We argue that the management of kangaroos and the environments in which they live would benefit from the adoption of an active adaptive management approach by wildlife management agencies.

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“…These have motivated agencies to undertake a double‐loop planning process (USFWS ) whereby objectives, model structures, and other adjustments are being considered for revision, given what has been learned from the initial iterative phase. Adaptive Harvest Management remains an example of linking research and management in a structured way (Roberts et al ) consistent with the earliest charge of the MBT (section 704) requiring that “due regard” be given to bird abundance and distribution before authorizing hunting seasons.…”

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The migratory bird treaty and a century of waterfowl conservation

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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, concern was building about the status of migratory bird populations in North America. In this literature review, we describe how that concern led to a landmark conservation agreement in 1916, between the United States and Great Britain (on behalf of Canada) to conserve migratory birds shared by Canada and the United States. Drawing on published literature and our personal experience, we describe how subsequent enabling acts in both countries gave rise to efforts to better estimate population sizes and distributions, assess harvest rates and demographic impacts, design and fund landscape-level habitat conservation initiatives, and organize necessary political and regulatory processes. Executing these steps required large-scale thinking, unprecedented regional and international cooperation, ingenuity, and a commitment to scientific rigor and adaptive management. We applaud the conservation efforts begun 100 years ago with the Migratory Bird Treaty Convention. The agreement helped build the field of wildlife ecology and conservation in the twentieth century but only partially prepares us for the ecological and social challenges ahead. Ó 2017 The Wildlife Society.

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Strengthening links between waterfowl research and management

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Meeting harvest expectations is key for duck hunter satisfaction

Meeting harvest expectations is key for duck hunter satisfaction

Balancing stakeholder interests in kangaroo management – historical perspectives and future prospects

The migratory bird treaty and a century of waterfowl conservation

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