Overpopulation of wild animals

Daniel Rivera
Utep
Annotated bibliography
Erin E. Cooney & Robert H. Holsman (2010) Influences on Hunter Support
for Deer Herd Reduction as a Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management Strategy, Human
Dimensions of Wildlife, 15:3, 194-207, DOI: 10.1080/10871201003598785
The point of this article was to see if the beliefs and attitudes of hunters towards using hunting
of deer as a means to manage and even possible eliminate Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in
herd population affected the efficiency of this method as well as if the method even had any real
basis to make it true. Information
provided through reliable research obtained through use of a model in which factors such as the
attitudes of deer hunters towards the idea of managing and possibly eliminating CWD(Chronic
Wasting Disease)thru hunting,risks of disease impacts,spreading of the disease and the
efficiency of using hunting as a strategy to combat CWD was given and thoroughly explained.
This source helped me understand some of the reasons behind both hunter participation and
how disease found in harvested deer affected the attitudes of Hunters.

R. C. Stedman , P. Bhandari , A. E. Luloff , D. R. Diefenbach & J. C. Finley

(2008) Deer Hunting on Pennsylvania's Public and Private Lands: A Two-Tiered System of
Hunters?, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 13:4, 222-233, DOI: 10.1080/10871200802010513
This article discusses key differences between public land hunters and private land hunters and
how these differences affect the effectiveness of hunters as managers of white deer
overpopulation in the state of Pennsylvania. This source provided key information that helped
demonstrate that more hunter participation is needed to ensure recreational hunting as an
important way to curb high deer density as well as the rate of hunters versus deer population.
One important point throughout the article was that hunter success heavily depended on the
effort given by the Hunter,which was greater in private land hunters as they had more time and
more satisfactory results than their public land counterparts.

LINDA LAIKRE,MIJA JANSSON, FRED W. ALLENDORF, SVEN JAKOBSSON,

AND NILS RYMAN
Hunting Effects on Favourable Conservation Status of
Highly Inbred Swedish Wolves
Conservation Biology, Volume 27, No. 2, 248253
C 2012 Society for Conservation Biology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01965.x

The Swedish wolf is highly inbred due to the fact that the genetic basis for the actual wolf
population consists of 5 wolves with no new genes entering the gene pool. The lack of new
genes in the reproduction of the wolves has adversely affected the Swedish wolf population as
many health complications have become more and more common such as spinal disorders and
heart and kidney problems. Hunting has been used to watch the population and help reduce
inbreeding in the population.
ROBERT A. SCHORR,
PAUL M. LUKACS,
JUSTIN A. GUDE,
The Montana Deer and Elk Hunting
Population: The Importance of Cohort Group,
License Price, and Population Demographics
on Hunter Retention, Recruitment, and
Population Change
The increase of the price of hunting licenses as well as the continued decrease in hunter
participation has made wildlife management authorities consider alternate methods to help
manage the population of large game herd populations in Montana. This source helped explore
the reasons behind the decline of Hunters in the state of Montana. Factors such as little
success,the increased price of hunting licenses,the application process for such a license taking
too long etc. Have all affected the retention rate of hunters. With the population of deer and elk
gradually growing many efforts are being undertaken to reevaluate the strategies taken to trim
the herd populations to a reasonable amount .

MAYUMI UENO,KOICHI KAJI,TAKASHI SAITOH,

Culling Versus Density Effects in
Management of a Deer Population
This source explained the need for longer hunting seasons and specific harvesting of female
deer in the town of Ashoro in eastern Hokkaido, Japan. There the population of sika deer is
quite high despite the climate in which they live where the minimum temperature is -25.1c in
the winter and the snow falls from late December to early april. Wildlife management authorities
have used hunting as a way to control the overgrown population. This article helped further my
point that hunting is important in the managing of deer herd populations to prevent high deer
density that can adversely affect the environment ecosystems. Harvesting of female deer should
be made a bigger priority.

Richelle Winkler ,Keith Warnke

The future of hunting: an age-period-cohort analysis
of deer hunter decline,

Popul Environ (2013) 34:460480

DOI 10.1007/s11111-012-0172-6
This source describes the fact that the number of deer hunters has declined greatly over the
years. This has affected the availability of funds used to contribute to land protection , habitat
conservation and the management of wildlife with in these places. That is due to the fact that
the funds are obtained through the fees of the Hunting licenses paid by hunters annually. Hunter
participation has been significantly reduced the higher the price of a license and the lowered
success in catching and harvesting a deer. A study was done in the state if Wisconsin to
evaluate this situation. This study helped project the number of hunters that would be around in
coming years which was alarmingly low. This helped my point that perhaps alternative funding
should be considered for wildlife management agencies who rely heavily upon the funds
garnered from hunters.

David G. Hewitt (2015) Hunters and the conservation and management of

white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), International Journal of Environmental Studies, 72:5,
839-849, DOI: 10.1080/00207233.2015.1073473
This source describes the important function of hunters in both the management and
conservation of Whitney tailed deer in the are