License to Kill: Reforming Federal Wildlife Control to Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

For more than 100 years, the US government has conducted lethal control of native wildlife, to benefit livestock producers and to enhance game populations, especially in the western states. Since 2000, Wildlife Services (WS), an agency of the US Department of Agriculture, has killed 2 million native...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Conservation letters 2014-03, Vol.7 (2), p.131-142
Hauptverfasser:	Bergstrom, Bradley J., Arias, Lily C., Davidson, Ana D., Ferguson, Adam W., Randa, Lynda A., Sheffield, Steven R.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Apex predators ecosystem resilience endangered species keystone species lethal control livestock depredation trophic cascades Wildlife Services
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