A program for restoring extipated mammals in the National Park system
Cahalane VH. 1951. A program for restoring extipated mammals in the National Park system. Journal of Mammalogy. 32(2):207-210
A brief and generalized account of a National Park restoration program is presented in the hope of arousing interest in a phase of park management which has received too little consideration. The restoration of extirpated mammals in the National Park system is desirable in furtherance of the legal mandate 'to conserve...the wild life.' Restoration will also fill a vacant biological niche and help to restore the original dynamic balance between species. Practical considerations, including park size and shape, public prejudice, agricultural and livestock conflicts, environmental conditions, as well as idealism must by taken into account in returning species to vacated habitats. In spite the modest expansion of a restoration program, which, in the earlier years of park history, was limited strictly to the conspicuous 'big game' mammals, much more remains to be done.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Cahalane, V.
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- SODN
- Keywords
- Administration, Ecology (Animal), Mammalogy, Methods (General Field), NPS, Planning, Resource Management, Restoration