The Probe, Issue 209 – March/April 2000

Summary of NADCA Questionnaire Results NADCA Discusses Future -- Bob Timm, PROBE Editor Vern VerMass Receives Spalsbury Award Las Vegas 2000 - One Man\u27s View (The W.C.T. Seminary - February 2000) -- Erik W. Shaffer Equipment Updates Book Review: Bird Management Field Guide: A Comprehensive Manual for Preventing and Resolving Pest Bird Problems by Richard Kramer, Ph.D. (115pp, illustrated). Woodstream Corp. Sold to Investment Group Colorado Anti-Trap Measure Held Invalid Moose, Motorcyclist Tangle Eagle Bombards Car Europe\u27s Children Don\u27t Know Wool from Cotton Infected Cougar Shot in Oregon Position Available: WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST - Bird Depredation Research, H. K. Dupree Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center, Stuttgart, AR Thirsty Monkeys Stone Herdsman Probe Editor Sought Abstracts from the 6th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society: Differences in landscape composition affect predator movement patterns and nest success of ducks in central North Dakota -- Horn, David/.*, Michael L. Phillips, William R. Clark, Rolf R. Koford, Marsha A. Sovada, and Raymond J. Greenwood Nest predation and predator abundance along transmission line corridors in a fragmented landscape -- Hubbard, Tania, andR. Douglas Slack Relationships among porcupines, pin yon pines, and bark beetles in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Edwards Plateau in Texas -- Use, Linda M., and Eric C. Hellgren The impact of human encroachment on canine parvo virus and canine distemper virus in populations of Canis latrans -- Kindt, Kimberly S. Resource partitioning between swift foxes and coyotes -- Kitchen, Ann M.*, and Eric M. Gese Hantavirus in peridomestic populations of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) in western Montana -- Kuenzi, AmyJ.*, Richard J. Douglass, Don White, Jr., and Clifford W. Bond Conflicts between people and commensal bats: Current and prospective methods for managing site-specific problems -- Laniewicz, Brian R.*, and Stephen C. Frantz Resource agencies as effective sources of information on wildlife damage prevention and control: overcoming the obstacles -- Lowery, MarkD.*, and William F. Siemer Behavioral adaptations of mule deer to urban environments -- McClure, Mark F., John A. Bissonette, and Michael R. Conover Historical perspective of wildlife damage management -- Miller, James E.*, and Arthur E. Smith The link between education and alleviating human-wildlife conflicts -- Owens, Rick D.*, and Douglas 1\u27. Hall Prey selection by mountain lions and coyotes: Effects of hunting style, body size, and reproductive status -- Pierce, Becky M., Vernon C. Bleich.and R. Terry Bowyer Population and home range estimates of an exploited nutria population in Dorchester County, Maryland -- Ras, Lara B.*, Dixie L. Bounds*, Joseph Margraf*, and Ed Soutier