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• Natural Resources -✓✓Naturally occurring assets useful to humans including
wildlife, water, soil, and vegetation
• Wildlife -✓✓Free-living wild animals of major significance to humans
• Stakeholders -✓✓People who have an interest or concern about wildlife,
including negative interactions
• Damage Context -✓✓Resource damaged, animal causing damage, and injured
person
• Producers -✓✓Farmers, forest owners, and resource harvesters
• Hunters/Trappers -✓✓Consumptive recreational users involved in conservation
• Wildlife Enthusiasts -✓✓Non-consumptive users who enjoy viewing wildlife
• Animal Rights -✓✓Belief that animals have the same rights as humans
• Animal Welfare -✓✓Belief that animals and humans benefit each other
• Urban Residents -✓✓Enjoy wildlife but may see them as pests
• Rural Residents -✓✓More utilitarian view; more likely to experience damage
• Policy Decision Step 1 -✓✓Identify clear objectives
• Policy Decision Step 2 -✓✓Agree on decision-making process
• Policy Decision Step 3 -✓✓Build teamwork and trust
• Policy Decision Step 4 -✓✓Start with small successes
, • Partnership Requirements -✓✓Time, trust, shared mission
• Effective Wildlife Manager Skills -✓✓Communication, tolerance for diverse
views, conflict resolution
• Conflict Reduction Methods -✓✓Remove people/animals, human dimensions,
compensation, HERL model
• HERL Model -✓✓Habitat, Exclusion, Repellents/Deterrents, Lethal management
• Wildlife Public Trust -✓✓Wildlife is owned by the public and managed for all
stakeholders
• Allocation by Law -✓✓Laws determine how wildlife can be used or harvested
• Legitimate Use Rule -✓✓Wildlife can only be killed for valid purposes
• Science-Based Management -✓✓Wildlife policy should be guided by science
• Positive Values of Wildlife -✓✓Utility, monetary, recreation, ecological,
existence, historic
• Negative Values of Wildlife -✓✓Agricultural damage, property damage, human
threats, disease
• Wildlife Damage Management Definition -✓✓Elevating wildlife value by
reducing negative impacts
• Deer Stakeholders -✓✓Public, hunters, farmers, foresters, managers, animal
rights advocates
• Habitat (HERL) -✓✓Improve habitat, reduce attractants, select vegetation
• Exclusion (HERL) -✓✓Fencing, tree tubes, cages
• Repellents (HERL) -✓✓Liquid fence, Milorganite, capsaicin products