The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

The Probe, Issue 183 - December 1997

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:26:41 PDT

Contents:
Animal Rights Revisited
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Reports From the 4th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society
Techniques for Managing Predation on Domestic Livestock and Big Game Animals
Attitudes of Private and Public Land Managers in Wyoming Toward Beaver
Grizzly Bear-Cattle Interactions on Two Cattle Allotments in Northwest Wyoming
The Effects of Wolf Colonization on Coyote Behaviors
Video Review: “Rob Erickson’s Live Trapping Urban Beaver, Vols. 1-2”
Reed-Joseph Donates to NADCA
Riot Police Quell Big Mac Attack
Oregon Cougars on the Rise
Confronting Anti-Trap Initiatives
Current Status and Future Prospects for Mesurol as a Bird Repellent
Prescribed Predation Management: Predator Control to Enhance Recruitment in Big Game Populations
Restoration of Gray Wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming
Secondary Hazard Study Using Chlorophacinone-Contaminated Laboratory Rats Fed to Black-Billed Magpies (Pica pica)
Reducing Coyote Predation on Livestock Through Selective Control
Dispersal Characteristics and Landscape Use by Colonizing Wolves in the Rockies
Northern Bobwhite Population Response to Experimental Nest Predator Reduction: A Four-Year Pilot Study

The Probe, Issue 182 - November 1997

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:26:37 PDT

Contents:
Exclosures Around Overflow Pipes and Trees Prevent Beaver Damage
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Deer, Dog in House Don’t Mix
Indiana Nuisance Operators Organize
Humane Trapping Standards Adopted
Video Review: “Dealing With Urban Wildlife: Learn How to Protect Your Home and Property from Wildlife Damage”
National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act Passes
Fund for Animals Tries to Cross-Up Deer Hunting Priests
Beaver Damage Widespread
Texas Coyotes Damage Melons
Cranes, Hogs Decimate Corn
Fox Attacks California Woman
Drip Irrigation Damaged by Coyotes
Wolf Conflicts Sets Record in Minnesota

The Probe, Issue 181 - October 1997

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:10:57 PDT

Contents:
Applying Research Findings to Coyote Depredation Control Efforts
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Nominations Still Needed
Impacts of the Book “Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage”
Video Review: “Snaring Beaver ADC” by Byron Reichart
ADC Now 'Wildlife Services"
PETA Opposes Pigeon Control
Iowa Deer Depredation Considered
Exotic Cat Removed in North Carolina
Bird Strike Committee Meets
Obituary: Charles Dobbins
Weiner Fans Cry Baloney as Tables Turn on PETA Protesters
Legislative Update

The Probe, Issue 179 - August 1997

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:10:54 PDT

Contents:
The Uneasy Conscience of the Animal Rights Movement
Calendar of Upcoming Events
NADCA Officers' Nominations Needed
Berryman Institute Announces Fellows
Reviews of the Video: “Balancing Nature – Trapping in Today’s World”
New Product Available: “Scarecrow” by Contech Deters Mammals, Birds
Garlic Repellent Device for Deer, Rabbits

The Probe, Issue 178 - July 1997

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:01:58 PDT

Contents:
Michigan Bear Referendum
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Brown Tree Snakes to Continue to Plague Guam
ADC on the Web (extracted from postings to the WDAMAGE Bulletin Board)
Teens Arrested for Animal Rights Activity
Sportsmen Protest 'Alliance for Animals' Meeting
Study Looks At Coyote Effects on Pronghorn
Legislative Updates: Arizona, California, Colorado, Wisconsin
Fund for Animals Seeks USFWS Grant
Diverse Wildlife Problems in Texas

The Probe, Issue 176 - May 1997

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:01:54 PDT

Contents:
Consensus, Coalition and Consent-Antidote to Conflict
Calendar of Upcoming Events
NADCA Committees
Overturning Sunday Hunting Bans
Who Funds Anti-Hunting Measures?
NH Defeats Anti-Trap Bill
Extreme Bill Introduced in California
New Rules Proposed for Canada Geese
Taking the Lead: A Report on Connecticut's NWCO Association Seminar
Louisiana Nutria Headed for Russia
Activist Files Suit Against ADC
Coyotes Prey on Suburban Colorado Dogs
PETA Asks Fishing Ban
An Open Letter to NADCA
Ultrasound Not Effective for Bird Control
More Abstracts Published at the 3rd Annual Conference of the Wildlife Society
Range expansion and ecology of the eastern coyote
Wolf-livestock conflict resolution in Minnesota
Can wildlife damage management be an entree to "real" (politically correct) wildlife management?
Predators in the classroom: a primer on predator ecology
Preventive control measures for the brown tree snake to protect insular wildlife communities
Oklahoma Beavers On the Increase

The Probe, Issue 107 - January/February 1991

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:50:34 PDT

Contents:
Registration of Alpha-Chloralose
Rice Seed Repellents
Perimeter Netting of Catfish Ponds
Frightening Devices for Coyotes
DRC-1339 Registration
DRC-1339 For Raven Control
Zinc Phosphide Registration
Coyote Attractant Research
Gas Cartridges
Coyote Bait Acceptance
Trapping is a Profession, Not a Sport
Bovine TB in Elk
NADCA Secretary Objects to Predator Article
Heart Transplants for Rats
Gallup Poll on Public Opinion of Animal Rightists Reaffirmed
Personnel Changes
Prevention and Control Tips: Tree Squirrels
Upcoming Meetings
President’s Corner
NADCA Official Sponsor of Fifth Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference
Information on Snaring Needed by Maine Reader

The Probe, Issue 101 - May/June 1990

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:50:32 PDT

Contents:
APHIS Activity Report
Reading Material
Letters to the Editor
Personnel
Practical Tips from the Field
All the News that’s Print to Fit
Editorial
New Academic Endeavor
Graduate Assistantships in ADM

The Probe, Issue 100 - March/April 1990

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:38:47 PDT

Contents:
Conference Proceedings
APHIS Activity Report
Reading Material
Meetings
Treasury Report
Letters to the Editor
ADC Tips and Tools
ADC-Related News from Around the World
New Products
Editorial
Officers and Board

The Probe, Issue 87 - November 1988

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:39:48 PDT

CONTENTS:
NADCA Meeting
Priorities
Retired Personnel: Rusty Birchfield
Reading Material
In Memorial: Frank Sessions
Letters to the Editor
Rodent Roast
Botulinus
Help in removing red fox
New Products
Editorial Column
NADCA Membership Application

The Probe, Issue 71 - March/April 1987

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:39:46 PDT

Contents:
EPA audit of the Denver Wildlife Research Center
APHIS Activity Report
Golf Handicaps
APHIS Wins Award
Great Plains Workshop
Letters to the Editor
"Home Free," ultrasonic pest control devices
Trapping in Wilderness Areas
Fur and Beauty Pageants

The Probe, Issue 68 - December 1986

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:31:58 PDT

Contents:
Elections
More Innovative Ways to Spend Money
Meetings
Mountain Lion Attacks on Two Children in California
Letters to the Editor

The Probe, Issue 24 - August 1982

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:31:56 PDT

Contents:
1080 Registration Hassle
How to Write Your Congressman
NADCA Predator Control Meeting
Health Hazards from Pigeons, Starlings, and English Rats and Mice
Methods of treating snake bite
Recent Reading Materials
Anti-Trap Bill – S.B. 2239
Permits to import or export wildlife
Letters to the Editor
Election Time

The Probe, Issue 14 - June 1981

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:22:47 PDT

Contents:
Impact of the Endangered Species Act
Trapping! What’s in it for wildlife?
Angel Island off the coast of California
USDI Change In Policy
With Friends Like This – Who Needs Enemies?
College Station District rancher losing lambs
Beaver colony response to fertility control - Evaluating a concept
NADCA is to serve as an ADC information interchange center
The Balance of Nature is Upset Again
Acetic acid might dissolve the lead sleeve on snares
Disneyworld, Washington, D.C.
Editorially Speaking
"Lacy" dogs of Texas
Reagan Administration and the EPA

The Probe, Issue 13 - May 1981

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:13:21 PDT

Content:
Prexy’s Corner
Disneyworld, D.C.
An Animal Damage Identification Guide for Massachusetts
Bird Problems in Agriculture
Let’s Hit the Antis Where They Live – Right in the Legislature!
Oregon Revisited
WLFA Update
The problem with feral pigs in San Benito County (CA)
Dr. Donald A. Spencer, Regional Director VI
Milton Caroline, Regional Director IV
A Study of the Foraging Habits of Quits at the Montgomery County Landfill, Rockville, Maryland
Harvey O. Edwards – Memoir
Which Risks are Acceptable?
Illegally killed elk being poached just for their antlers
Recommendations for an effective ADC program

The Probe, Issue 12 - March 1981

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:03:27 PDT

Contents:
Oregon Postmortem
School-age children believe the pronghorn antelope, white-tailed deer and elk are in danger of extinction
Discontinue the production of calcium cyanide
I’ll Take My Steak Bloody Rare, Please! by Barry Gray
NADCA
The Animals’ Revenge
Animal damage to coniferous plantations in Oregon and Washington
Snares
Visual scare devices
CEQ Uses Statistics
Bat Repellents
Norton R. Miner, Region III Director
Meetings of Interest
Sally S. Erdman
Memorial: Harvey Edwards

The Probe, Issue 11 - February 1981

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:43:27 PDT

Contents:
Where are the “Protectors” when they’re needed?
NADCA is a non-profit organization
NADCA Membership - February 1981
latest exotic non-lethal coyote control methods for protecting the little woolies from the big bad coyotes are llamas
Anti-trappers
The wild horse and burro Act
When Birdies and Airplanes Mix – Look Out Below
Treatment in a walk-in aviary with brodifacoum [TALON]
William D. Fitzwater

The Probe, Issue 10 - January 1981

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:19:45 PDT

Contents:
The Users of Wildlife
Rabies Update
Disney World, District of Columbia
AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS BOOK III - Fumigants, Growth regulators, Repellents and Rodenticides
Japan has ADC Problems too
Bird Species
RPAR on Strychnine
1981 NADCA Membership List
Muskrat Meatloaf
Ol’ Timer’s Corner: Lee Bacus

The Probe, Issue 9 - November 1980

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:13:28 PDT

Contents:
Cecil D. Andrus, lawsuit
All Together Now – Let’s Sue Andrus
desert tortoise
Treasury Reports
Ken Green of Avitrol Corporation has an article in PEST CONTROL
Black-footed ferret
A new social disease, "coyotitis"
The Brotherhood
Rats
Regulation Scoreboard: Government 80 : Taxpayer 0
Coleman Company has just introduced a little gadget
Ol’ Timer’s Corner: Walt Boehm, Virgil Parsons, Mark Worcester
NRA Hunting Annual
Wildlife Legislative Fund of America
Blueberries added to the list of fruits that can be sprayed with MESUROL
TRAPPING BENEFITS PEOPLE AND WILD ANIMALS
William D. Fitzwater

The Probe, Issue 8 - September 1980

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:05:36 PDT

Contents:
Probing for the Probe
Who says ADC doesn’t cover the waterfront!? And the Dumps Too!
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Animal Damage Control Activities (Operational and Extension)
Bats
Steel Leg Hold Live Trap by Milton Caroline
Ol’Timer’s Corner: Cliff Presnall
EPA Key to Post Mortem Symptoms
Some Coyotes Can’t Wait
Animal Rights by Homer S. Ford
Seen any Black-footed Ferrets Recently?
William D. Fitzwater