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This manual contains a brief summary of the principles and practices of game management, as applied to the management of game in British Columbia. It has been designed to serve primarily as a reference and guide in dealing with game management problems, and aims to create a co-ordination of approach among those engaged in game management.

Author:  BC Game Commission

Date Published:  Mar 1958

Report ID:  55963

Audience:  Government and Public

This manual contains a brief summary of the principles and practices of game management, as applied to the management of game in British Columbia. It has been designed to serve primarily as a reference and guide in dealing with game management problems, and aims to create a co-ordination of approach among those engaged in game management. Sections include the value of game as a natural resource, relationships between game and economic developments, livestock and game interactions, farming and game interactions, waterfowl and other land users, forestry and game, industry and game, access and game, game management principles and policies, fundamental population dynamics, population behaviour, principles of harvesting, habitat management, winter feeding, game propagation, experiment and research, game reserves and closed areas, public relations, predator control, game management techniques, sampling procedures, aging and sexing game animals and birds, effect of hunting on age classes, aging techniques, big game animals, game birds, waterfowl, upland birds, inventory of game populations (Census), direct methods of census, indirect methods of census, waterfowl, fur-bearers, measurements of browse and plant composition, range surveys, game checking stations, hunger sample or postal survey, predator control techniques, laboratory studies, biological aids to law enforcement, collecting and handling material for examination, game animals and birds of BC, breeding characteristics of the hoofed game, big game animals including moose, elk, mule deer, black-tailed deer, white-tailed deer, mountain caribou, Bighorn sheep, thinhorn sheep, mountain sheep, goat, grizzly bear, black bear, cougar, wolf, coyote, upland game birds, Ruffed grouse, Sharp-tailed grouse, Sooty blue grouse, dusky blue grouse, Franklin and spruce grouse, Ptarmigan, Ring-necked pheasant, Chukar partridge, California quail, band-tailed pigeon, waterfowl.

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  Terrestrial Information
 
Subject
  Birds - Blue Grouse: Dendragapus obscurus
  Birds - Ruffed Grouse: Bonasa umbellus
  Birds - Sharp-tailed Grouse: Tympanuchus phasianellus
  Birds - Spruce Grouse: Falcipennis canadensis
  Mammals - Carnivores
  Mammals - Ungulates
  Mammals - Bighorn Sheep: Ovis canadensis
  Mammals - Black Bear: Ursus americanus
  Mammals - Caribou: Rangifer tarandus
  Mammals - Cougar: Puma concolor
  Mammals - Coyote: Canis latrans
  Mammals - Elk: Cervus elaphus
  Mammals - Grey Wolf: Canis lupus
  Mammals - Grizzly Bear: Ursus arctos
  Mammals - Mule Deer: Odocoileus hemionus
  Mammals - Rocky Mtn.Bighorn Sheep:Ovis canadensis canadensis
  Mammals - Thinhorn Sheep: Ovis dalli
  Mammals - White-tailed Deer: Odocoileus virginiana
  Region - Province Wide
 


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