scholarly journals Observations of the use of buildings by free-ranging Elk, Cervus canadensis, in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan

2015 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan K. Brook
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
East Central ◽  
Cervus Canadensis ◽  
Thermal Cover ◽  
Prince Albert National Park ◽  
Free Ranging ◽  
The Town

Elk (Cervus canadensis) are habituated to humans and associated buildings in many national parks in North America. During the summers of 2012–2014, observations were made of Elk standing on the decks of cabins and entering campground cook shelters in and around the town of Waskesiu in east-central Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan. These appear to be the first documented observations of Elk entering buildings intentionally. The reason for this behaviour is likely a combination of the animals seeking areas safe from wolves, thermal cover, and relief from biting insects.

Can Bureaucracies Change Policy?

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Lowry
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Park Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town ◽  
The U.S

In the 1990s, policymakers at Yellowstone and Banff National Parks enacted two of the most controversial programs in the history of protected lands. At Yellowstone, the U.S. National Park Service (nps) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (fws) personnel reintroduced wolves into the Yellowstone ecosystem. This program restored a crucial element to the park ecosystem that had been eliminated decades before and not returned since extermination. At Banff, federal authorities imposed strict limits to growth of the town of Banff. This action reversed a policy dating to the park's establishment in the late nineteenth century of allowing and encouraging growth and development of the town within Banff. How did these policy changes occur?

The Importance of Adjusting for Trip Purpose in Regional Economic Analyses of Tourist Destinations

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Loomis ◽  
Lynne Caughlan
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Trip Purpose ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Economic Analyses ◽  
The Town

This paper investigates the empirical importance of distinguishing visitors and their expenditures by trip purpose when estimating the tourism effects of a national park on a local economy. Accounting for trip purpose is quite important when there are two or more nearby major attractions in the same geographical area. This applies to the author's case study of Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks in the State of Wyoming, and also to other areas, such as the State of Utah's Bryce and Zion National Parks or amusement parks in the Orlando area in Florida. The authors illustrate the various types of survey questions and methods for correcting for trip purpose. In the case study, it would be quite misleading to attribute all spending by visitors to Grand Teton National Park (GTNP) in the town of Jackson, Wyoming, solely to GTNP because this would overstate employment actually attributable to the park by 3,455 jobs, or 22%. In turn, this overestimates the dependence of jobs in the Jackson economy on GTNP by 15%, incorrectly estimating it at 75% rather than the sounder figure of 60% of total jobs.

Bats of Kootenay, Glacier, and Mount Revelstoke national parks in Canada: identification by echolocation calls, distribution, and biology

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 2503-2508 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Fenton ◽  
H. G. Merriam ◽  
G. L. Holroyd
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Myotis Lucifugus ◽  
Glacier National Park ◽  
Lasiurus Cinereus ◽  
Echolocation Calls ◽  
Bat Activity ◽  
Lasionycteris Noctivagans ◽  
The Town

We studied the behaviour, echolocation calls, and distribution of bats in Kootenay, Glacier, and Mount Revelstoke national parks in British Columbia, Canada. Presented here are keys for identification of nine species of bats by their echolocation calls as rendered by two different bat-detecting systems. The species involved include Myotis lucifugus, M. evotis, M. volans, M. septentrionalis, M. californicus, Lasionycteris noctivagans, Eptesicus fuscus, Lasiurus cinereus, and L. borealis. The distribution of these species within the three parks was assessed by capturing bats in traps and mist nets and by monitoring of their echolocation calls. Most of the species exploited concentrations of insects around spotlights, providing convenient foci of activity for assessing distribution. Although most species of Myotis were commonly encountered away from the lights, Lasiurus cinereus in Kootenay National Park was only regularly encountered feeding on insects at lights. This species was not detected in Glacier National Park, and although we regularly encountered it in the town of Revelstoke, it was rarely encountered in Mount Revelstoke National Park. Another focus of bat activity was small pools in cedar forest in Mount Revelstoke National Park. This involved high levels of Myotis spp. activity at dusk as the bats came to the pools to drink.

scholarly journals Comparative Intradermal Tuberculin Testing of Free-Ranging African Buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) Captured forEx SituConservation in the Kafue Basin Ecosystem in Zambia

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hetron Mweemba Munang'andu ◽  
Victor Siamudaala ◽  
Wigganson Matandiko ◽  
Andrew Nambota ◽  
John Bwalya Muma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Bovine Tuberculosis ◽  
National Park ◽  
Tuberculin Test ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
African Buffalo ◽  
Individual Animal ◽  
Syncerus Caffer ◽  
Tuberculin Testing ◽  
Free Ranging

Bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is endemic in African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) in some National Parks in Southern Africa, whilst no studies have been conducted on BTB on buffalo populations in Zambia. The increased demand for ecotourism and conservation of the African buffalo on private owned game ranches has prompted the Zambian Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) and private sector in Zambia to generate a herd of “BTB-free buffaloes” forex situconservation. In the present study, 86 African buffaloes from four different herds comprising a total of 530 animals were investigated for the presence of BTB for the purpose of generating “BTB free” buffalo forex-situconservation. Using the comparative intradermal tuberculin test (CIDT) the BTB status at both individual animal and herd level was estimated to be 0.0% by the CIDT technique. Compared to Avian reactors only, a prevalence of 5.8% was determined whilst for Bovine-only reactors a prevalence of 0.0% was determined. These results suggest the likelihood of buffalo herds in the Kafue National Park being free of BTB.

Notes on the Lodgepole Needle Miner, Recurvaria milleri Busck (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), and Its Parasites in Western North America

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (11) ◽  
pp. 295-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Banff National Park ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heavy Infestation ◽  
A New Species

The lodgepole needle miner, Recurvaria milleri Busck, was discovered in 1903 in the Yosemite National Park, California, and was described as a new species by Busck (1914). The infestation has persisted in that area, with irregular periods of abundance and scarcity. The latest heavy infestation was reported (G. R. Struble, in litt.) to have started in 1947, and has continued to intensify. The history of the outbreak to 1919 was reported by Patterson (1921).In 1942 a second important infestation was reported in the Banff National Park, Alberta. Details concerning the area of infestation and life-history notes were given by Hopping (1946). This infestation has continued to spread and has reached Yoho, Kootenay, and Revelstoke National parks.

scholarly journals Parc National Du Banco, Un Patrimoine Entre Destruction Et Conservation : Realite Et Enjeux D’une Gestion Durable

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Akoue Yao Claude ◽  
Adaman Sinan ◽  
Zon Dehenouin Alphonse
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
National Park ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Political Concern ◽  
The Town

Forest protection and conservation in Ivory Coast and its ressources were always been in political concern. That is why since its independance, Ivory Coast created an important network of protected areas in order to preserve its forest cover and its biodiversity. In spite of these efforts of forest conceptualization, the situation remains in crisis. Indeed the share of the National parks and Reserves undergo deep changes related to the anthropic pressures. Created in 1953 and located in the heart of the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, the National Park value does not escape such a situation. Indeed, the activities undertaken by populations living around this park and the fast urbanisation of the town of Abidjan represent an obstacle to the survival of the park. To suppress this situation, political measurements are installed for better managment of this park. This study aims to analyze the threats related to urban pressure on this park.

Grand Teton Tour

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Smith ◽  
Lee J. Siegel
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Grand Teton National Park ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Early Fall ◽  
Visitor Center ◽  
The One ◽  
The Town ◽  
Earthquake Area

Because winter snows close roads in both Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, the driving tours in this chapter and the next are intended for use only from late spring through early fall. You may wish to do only parts of each tour and so we have not shown cumulative trip mileage in these tour guides. Instead, we provide cumulative mileage only from one stop to the next, and for points of interest between them. This chapter’s tour of Grand Teton National Park totals 82 miles, excluding mileage to the optional aerial tramway ride. The intent of these two chapters is to provide a three-day driving tour, including one day in Grand Teton and two in Yellowstone. However, you easily may extend the tour to five days or even longer if you choose a leisurely pace or decide to make optional hikes and stops. The three-day tour outlined in these chapters starts in the town of Jackson, Wyoming. Our tour includes the following suggestions: • On day I, make the Teton tour, perhaps beginning or ending with the optional tramway ride detailed at the end of this chapter. Spend the night either in Jackson or find accommodations closer to Yellowstone, such as at Colter Bay Village or other campgrounds and lodgings in northern Grand Teton National Park. • On day 2, enter Yellowstone’s south entrance and drive the loop road clockwise to Madison Junction, then spend the night at West Yellowstone, Montana. If you arrive at West Yellowstone by early to mid-afternoon, you still will have time to make the optional tour to the Hebgen Lake earthquake area, although the visitor center there closes in the late afternoon. • On day 3, either start with the optional side trip to the Hebgen Lake earthquake area, or proceed from West Yellowstone, Montana, back into Yellowstone National Park, continuing the tour at Madison Junction. Some visitors may choose to drive part or all of these tours in a direction opposite to the one we use here. For that reason, we also provide reverse mileage between each stop and the sights between stops.

From Competition to Cooperation: A History of Canada–US National Park Relations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Young ◽  
Alan MacEachern ◽  
Lary Dilsaver
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Relationship

This essay explores the evolving international relationship of the two national park agencies that in 1968 began to offer joint training classes for protected-area managers from around the world. Within the British settler societies that dominated nineteenth century park-making, the United States’ National Park Service (NPS) and Canada’s National Parks Branch were the most closely linked and most frequently cooperative. Contrary to campfire myths and nationalist narratives, however, the relationship was not a one-way flow of information and motivation from the US to Canada. Indeed, the latter boasted a park bureaucracy before the NPS was established. The relationship of the two nations’ park leaders in the half century leading up to 1968 demonstrates the complexity of defining the influences on park management and its diffusion from one country to another.

Into Russian Nature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan D. Roe
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
National Parks ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
National Park ◽  
World War ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals

Into Russian Nature examines the history of the Russian national park movement. Russian biologists and geographers had been intrigued with the idea of establishing national parks before the Great October Revolution but pushed the Soviet government successfully to establish nature reserves (zapovedniki) during the USSR’s first decades. However, as the state pushed scientists to make zapovedniki more “useful” during the 1930s, some of the system’s staunchest defenders started supporting tourism in them. In the decades after World War II, the USSR experienced a tourism boom and faced a chronic shortage of tourism facilities. Also during these years, Soviet scientists took active part in Western-dominated international environmental protection organizations, where they became more familiar with national parks. In turn, they enthusiastically promoted parks for the USSR as a means to reconcile environmental protection and economic development goals, bring international respect to Soviet nature protection efforts, and help instill a love for the country’s nature and a desire to protect it in Russian/Soviet citizens. By the late 1980s, their supporters pushed transformative, and in some cases quixotic, park proposals. At the same time, national park opponents presented them as an unaffordable luxury during a time of economic struggle, especially after the USSR’s collapse. Despite unprecedented collaboration with international organizations, Russian national parks received little governmental support as they became mired in land-use conflicts with local populations. While the history of Russia’s national parks illustrates a bold attempt at reform, the state’s failure’s to support them has left Russian park supporters deeply disillusioned.

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