Urban Wildlife Management

Objectives | What You Will Learn | Benefits | Cost | About the Instructor

Whether you live deep in the heart of a city, along the urban fringe, or in the outlying areas, it's likely that wildlife is living nearby! Based on the first comprehensive text to examine the issues that have led to the need for human-wildlife interface management strategies, this continuing education examines the ecological, cultural, political, and economic consequences of the presence of wildlife in urban communities, and also, the attitudes, activities, expectations, and knowledge of urban residents concerning the wildlife around them.
 

Objectives

• Reconnect with the natural world around you
• Familiarize yourself with activities that will broaden your awareness about managing urban wildlife
• Learn your role and responsibilities in managing wildlife near your home and in your community

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What You Will Learn

• How human/wildlife interactions changed with the societal shift from agrarian to urban lifestyles.
• The four basic principles of ecology; compare and contrast natural and urban ecosystems
• Terms related to urban wildlife management i.e. population dynamics, abiotic/biotic, generalists/specialists, etc.
• What factors promote or prevent the presence of wildlife species in various habitats
• The positive / negative effects of structural features unique to urbanization (buildings, windows, highways, landfills, airports, etc.)
• The impact of urbanization on urban streams and soils, and their effects on urban wildlife
• The effects of human dimensions on wildlife (i.e. supplemental feeding, zoonotic diseases, wildlife-related activities, etc.)
• Who the stakeholders are in urban wildlife management policy (public and private sectors)
• How laws affect urban wildlife management
• Distribution, abundance, and management considerations of Canada Geese and urban white-tailed deer
• This is NOT a wildlife damage control program.

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Who Should Attend

• Wildlife biologists working for state departments of natural resources seeking professional advancement.
• Undergraduate and graduate students seeking degrees in wildlife management, but do not have the opportunity to take an urban wildlife management course.
• Urban wildlife biologists working for city, state, and federal agencies.

Benefits to You!

• Learn how to live with the wildlife around you
• Access to a course pretested by hundreds of students
• Instruction delivered completely online
• Self-paced to fit your lifestyle needs
• 60 professional development hours (6.0 CEUs) in 6 months

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Cost

• Affordable at only $695
• Purchase required textbook:
• Clark E. Adams, Kieran J. Lindsey, and Sara J. Ash. Urban Wildlife Management. CRC Taylor and Francis Press.  351pp. ISBN: 0-8493-9645-X
• REGISTER NOW!

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Instructor

Dr. Clark E. Adams is professor and departmental director of human dimensions in wildlife management research and conservation education programs, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University. He designs and directs teaching and research programs leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in wildlife sciences with a conservation education emphasis. Developing curricula that integrate natural resources into public school and community education programs is just one of Dr. Adams’ passions. His research provides empirical evaluations of human attitudes, activities, expectations and knowledge concerning wildlife and their habitats.

If you have questions about Urban Wildlife Management, please contact Dr. Clark Adams, clark.adams@tamu.edu.

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