Wildlife Management in U.S. National Parks: Natural Regulation Revisited

Soukup, Michael; Foley, Mary K.; Hiebert, Ronald D.; Huff, Dan E.

doi:10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0001:wmiusn]2.0.co;2

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“…Often, wildlife defy boundaries and threaten human interests, revealing people's limited ability to keep "good" animals in and "bad" animals out (Naughton-Treves 1997). The permeability of garden boundaries also means that wildlife survival is affected by human activities outside the garden (Naughton- Treves et al 1998;Soukup et al 1999). For example, lemurs in Malagasy parks are provisioned by surrounding plantations during times of scarcity (Ganzhorn and Abraham 1991).…”

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Wild Animals in the Garden: Conserving Wildlife in Amazonian Agroecosystems

Naughton‐Treves

2002

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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In this article, I draw on field research in the Peruvian Amazon to evaluate the impact of individual and regional land-use practices (hunting, forest-clearing, and fallowing) on wildlife survival. More broadly, I examine the symbolic and practical significance of the garden as a metaphor for wildlife conservation. I focus on Tambopata Province, a region containing diverse wildlife and a variety of "gardens," from swidden fields to national parks. Field data on wildlife presence in swidden gardens reveal the attributes of an anthropogenic fauna: adaptable, fast-reproducing species, including rodents, peccaries, brocket deer, and armadillos. Larger mammals, including most primates and carnivores, are greatly reduced by hunting. Multivariate analyses show that wildlife abundance and species diversity are more strongly shaped by regional land use and community-level hunting practices than by individual "gardeners." In Tambopata, multiple interest groups stake claims on the forests and wildlife within protected areas, leading at times to violent conflict and/or redrawn boundaries. The garden metaphor is ultimately misleading for conservationists, as it conveys a false sense of benign mastery and control over nature and other humans.

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Wild Animals in the Garden: Conserving Wildlife in Amazonian Agroecosystems

Naughton‐Treves

2002

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Natural regulation, the National Park Service policy for ungulate management, has been plagued with controversy since its inception. The conflict in Yellowstone's northern range, where large elk populations have had strong impacts on vegetation, has brought this controversy to the forefront of ecology (Soukup et al 1999) and park policy (NRC 2002). Ultimately, conflict around aspen decline has generated a timely question about protected area management: Can we maintain complex ecological systems and ecological processes in the face of increasing human influence on parks and protected areas?…”

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“…During the 1950s and 1960s, public outcry over ungulate reductions by park service agents led to the more publicly appealing and politically feasible alternative of natural regulation (Soukup et al 1999). Since the late 1960s, national park management has followed the natural regulation paradigm.…”

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Aspen, Elk, and Fire: The Effects of Human Institutions on Ecosystem Processes

Hessl¹

2002

BioScience

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“…United States National Park Service (NPS) policy calls for minimizing human impacts on native plants, animals, populations, communities, ecosystems, and the processes that sustain them (NPS 1988). Included in this is the possibility for elimination of human factors that disrupt the natural community (Soukup et al 1999, Wright 1999. Anthropogenic disturbance factors, including vehicular traffic and wildlife viewing, can alter ungulate behavior, including limiting use of areas adjacent to the disturbance (Schultz and Bailey 1978, Czech 1991, Bender et al 1999 and increasing energy expenditures to avoid the disturbance (Cassirer et al 1992).…”

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Bighorn Sheep Response to Road‐Related Disturbances in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

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2007

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Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) use of Sheep Lakes mineral site, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA, has decreased since 1996. Officials were concerned that human disturbance may have been contributing to this decline in use. We evaluated effects of vehicular traffic and other road‐related disturbance on bighorn use of Sheep Lakes in the summers of 2002 and 2003. We found that the time and number of attempts required by bighorn to reach Sheep Lakes was positively related to the number of vehicles and people present at Sheep Lakes. Further, the number of bighorn individuals and groups attempting to visit Sheep Lakes were negatively affected by disturbance associated with the site. The number of vehicles recorded the hour before bighorn tried to access Sheep Lakes best predicted an animal's failure to cross Fall River Road and reach Sheep Lakes. We conclude that human and road‐related disturbance at Sheep Lakes negatively affected bighorn use of the mineral site. Because Sheep Lakes may be important for bighorn sheep, especially for lamb production and survival, the negative influence of disturbance may compromise health and productivity of the Mummy Range bighorn sheep.

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Wildlife Management in U.S. National Parks: Natural Regulation Revisited

Cited by 7 publications

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Wild Animals in the Garden: Conserving Wildlife in Amazonian Agroecosystems

Wild Animals in the Garden: Conserving Wildlife in Amazonian Agroecosystems

Aspen, Elk, and Fire: The Effects of Human Institutions on Ecosystem Processes

Bighorn Sheep Response to Road‐Related Disturbances in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

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