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In the late nineteenth century (1885-1900), the office of economic ornithology and mammalogy spent most of its effort on ______
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predator control
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A ban on commercial netting of fish within 3 miles of the atlantic coast and 9 miles of the Gulf coast of Florida was the result of a ________
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constitutional amendment
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according to a time magazine survey of 10007 adults ___% claimed to be vegetarians
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according to guither, animal advocates fall into ___ general groups
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according to Moulton, perhaps the best definition of habitat was advanced by _______
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caughley and sinclair
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according to moulton, the wildlife management view basically follows that of the _____
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animal reformists
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according to moulton, there are basically __ categories of wildlife issues
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according to the pets in american project, an estimated ___% of American households had at least one pet
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an animal shelter worker in Michigan was fired for ______
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feeding puppies to a snake
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bear farms, where bears are kept for their bile, occur widely in _____
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china
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black skimmers are closely related to ______
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gulls and terns
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california was the first state to have a _____
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wildlife commission
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CARA was passed by the _____ in the summer of 2001
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house of representatives
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compound 1080 was a deadly poison used primarily for killing ______
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coyotes
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currently Mourning doves are hunted legally in __ states
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39
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for every $0.75 contributed by the Pittman-Robertson act, the state agency must contribue _____
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$0.25
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game species are those that are hunted ____
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for sport
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habitat may be defined in terms of ____
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any of these
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hand puppets are used to feed baby whooping crane chicks _____
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so they do not become imprinted by humans
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Historically wildlife managers have focused on making ____ happy
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hunters
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historically most of the revenue generated for wildlife management has come from ____
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hunters
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in 19970, some Boy Scouts found 2 dozen dead _______ that were killed by exposure to thallium
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bald and golden eagles
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in 1996, six California condors were released in the state of ____
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arizona
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in general, when it comes to resolving wildlife issues, the ____ is the most powerful force in America
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public
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in order for the public to effectively resolve wildlife issues they must first ____
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be concerned about the issue
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most of the so-called upland game birds belong to the order of
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galliformes
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in south america swainson's hawks were killed after they ingested ____ poisoned by monocrotophos
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grasshoppers
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---:it is really not important who decides what is actually scientific and what is psuedoscientific.
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false
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in the early 20th century, wildlife released numerous nonindigenious species for hunting because _______
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native game species were so reduced by market hunters
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california condors vanished from the wild in california in about ____
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1987
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in 2002 both houses of the US congress had bills before them that would ban ____
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canned hunts
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in 1985-1986 the division called animal damage control was transferred to the US Department of ____
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agriculture
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once the net ban was imposed in Florida, governor Lawton Chiles threatened to enfored it by _____
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calling out the National Guard
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during the campaign for the net ban the supporters of the ban accused the ___ of "nonfeasance"
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MFC
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game species may become non-game species _____
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when they become rare
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following the passage of the net ban amendment in Florida, some commercial fishers tried to use ___ to catch the fish
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tarps
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in 1996 congress places the NBS under the ____
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USGS
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Beaver and muskrats are classified as _____
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furbearers
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in order to nest successfully, kirtland's warblers require ___ trees with a dense understory
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Jack pines
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----: bear baiting is still practiced in Pakistan and India
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TRUE
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Kirtland's warblers build their nests ________
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on the ground
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in order to protect mule deer on the kaibab plateu, 30 wolves and more than seven hundred mountain lions were killed and _____
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deer hunting was banned
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market hunters once sold _____ for a dime a dozen in New York meat markets
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a dime a dozen
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kirtlands warbler currently nests almost exclusively in the state of ____
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michigan
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california condor re-introductions were carried out by a partnership between the USFWS and the_____
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Peregrine Fund
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management efforts on the kaibab plateu were aimed mostly at pleasing the ____
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public
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Dr. Julie Savidge concluded that ____ was the cause of declines of forest bird populations on Guam
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brown tree snake predation
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CARA has been advanced as a superior method for funding initiative called _____
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teaming with wildlife
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----: according to professor moulton, humans can successfully manage wildlife
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TRUE
