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Improved Technologies and Nonlethal Techniques for Managing Predation |
PROJECT GOAL: Identify, develop, and evaluate nonlethal technologies and tools to reduce predator impacts on livestock and other human resources.
Objective 1: Investigate and evaluate new nonlethal methods and techniques, including new designs and applications for frightening devices (i.e., motion-activated visual and audio stimuli) and approaches for conditioning avoidance (i.e., chemical and physical).
Objective 2: Develop and evaluate predator (coyotes, mountain lions, wolves) capture and restraint systems to increase capture efficiency and selectivity while decreasing injury.
Objective 3: Develop and evaluate auto-attaching radio collars for selective management of predators.
Objective 4: Develop and evaluate remote trap monitor systems.
Objective 5: Document conflicts between humans and predators (bears, coyotes, mountain lions, wolves) in rural and urban-rural interfaces and examine techniques for minimizing conflicts.
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