Center, Internet, Wildlife Damage Management
Human–Wildlife Interactions
State of the Berryman Institute
Date of this Version
Fall 2011
Document Type
Article
Citation
Human–Wildlife Interactions (Fall 2011) 5(2): article 6
doi: 10.26077/1bcw-c880
Special topic: Bird strikes
Abstract
The Jack H. Berryman Institute (BI) was created in 1993 at Utah State University (USU) to help resolve issues of human–wildlife conflict and to improve education on human-wildlife interactions. In 2002, the BI expanded to include Mississippi State University (MSU) as an eastern base of operations, and, together, BI-West (USU) and BI-East (MSU) aim to support research and education in human–wildlife interactions. BI operations were long funded by a federal earmark on the USDA/APHIS/ Wildlife Services (WS) budget, but this funding was lost when the U.S. Congress eliminated all earmarks for federal fiscal year 2011.
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Many research and educational organizations have been affected by budgetary constraints in recent years. The BI is working hard with its federal partner, WS, to find innovative ways of continuing its mission. With the collective consideration and support of all those invested in resolving problems involving human–wildlife interactions, the BI hopefully will weather the storm and continue to serve its nationally recognized role in wildlife science in the United States.