Landowner perceptions towards elk damage management and elk ranching in the Swan River area, Manitoba / R. Purdy
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TextPublication details: Winnipeg, MB : University of Manitoba, 1987.Description: vi, 115 leaves : ill. ; 29 cmOnline resources: Abstract: As credit to the opportunistic and adaptive abilities of elk (Cervus elaphus), damage to agricultural interests has been a long-standing concern of farmers and Government. Awareness that Canadian agriculture could benefit from these abilities has led to the recent interest of the four western Provinces in elk ranching. Two interrelated management concerns became a focus for political action in the Swan River area, and led to the implementation of the present study. Some farmers in the Swan River area perceived that the Swan Valley Elk Ranch established as a test project in 1982 began attracting wild elk that increased elk damage management was not effectively dealing with the perceived increase in elk damange, and secondly, opposition to the Swan Valley Elk Ranch indicated that elk ranching development might conflict with interest of some farmers. This study addresses these concerns by evaluating elk damage management and elk ranching from the persepctive of farmers. I hope the result
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Thesis(M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 1987.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-105).
As credit to the opportunistic and adaptive abilities of elk (Cervus elaphus), damage to agricultural interests has been a long-standing concern of farmers and Government. Awareness that Canadian agriculture could benefit from these abilities has led to the recent interest of the four western Provinces in elk ranching. Two interrelated management concerns became a focus for political action in the Swan River area, and led to the implementation of the present study. Some farmers in the Swan River area perceived that the Swan Valley Elk Ranch established as a test project in 1982 began attracting wild elk that increased elk damage management was not effectively dealing with the perceived increase in elk damange, and secondly, opposition to the Swan Valley Elk Ranch indicated that elk ranching development might conflict with interest of some farmers. This study addresses these concerns by evaluating elk damage management and elk ranching from the persepctive of farmers. I hope the result