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FW 564 - Science of Managing Human-Wildlife Conflicts

  • 3 credits
FW564 explores all human-wildlife conflicts but strongly emphasizes wildlife damage, the negative impacts of wildlife on humans. The course begins with an overview that includes a global and a North American survey of current conflicts and their underlying historical roots, then focuses on how basic biological, ecological, behavioral, and human dimensional concepts (economic, human attitudes and responses, and public policy and political) apply to resolving the conflicts, and the status of existing and future management methods. Students gain information from textbook and current literature, lectures, video sources, and interactive labs, but also share their experiences by choosing and leading discussions on specific topics, and by working together in small groups to formulate and share solutions to issues of particular interest to them.

Textbooks and Materials

Section 801

Required

  • Human-Wildlife Conflict Management: Prevention and Problem Solving (2022)
    Reidinger, Russell F.
    ISBN: 9781421445267
    Not available at the CSU Bookstore

Prerequisite

FW 104 or LAND 220 or LIFE 220 or LIFE 320

Important Information

Registration is restricted to FWCB Plan C Masters students until June 3. Any seats remaining in the course will be available to non-Plan C students at that time.

Textbooks and Materials

Section 801

Required

  • Human-Wildlife Conflict Management: Prevention and Problem Solving (2022)
    Reidinger, Russell F.
    ISBN: 9781421445267
    Not available at the CSU Bookstore

Instructors

Russ Reidinger
Russ Reidinger

rreiding@colostate.edu

Dr. Reidinger has had long-term teaching, research, administrative, and practical engagement with managing human wildlife conflicts. He taught wildlife damage management and related courses at undergraduate and graduate levels at Colorado State (CSU), University of Pennsylvania (UP), Lincoln (Missouri), University of Missouri, and other universities. He studied damage problems in agriculture in the Philippines, helped establish a vertebrate pest component and integrated pest management program in Bangladesh, and studied flavor aversion learning as it related to bait shyness and repellency at the Monell Center at the UP. He has served as a staff specialist in human wildlife conflicts in Washington, D. C., and as an Acting Director of the National Technical Support Staff for Wildlife Services, the only federal program devoted exclusively to managing human wildlife conflicts. He was Director of the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC), the research arm of the Wildlife Services program. His textbook, written with Jim Miller, is used in the course. He presently has an appointment at CSU, and as his schedule allows, also manages deer, coyote, bird and other wildlife damage on his small fruit farm in Missouri.