FIW 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Biocoenosis, Land Ethic, Slow Motion

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Look into sca for internships www. thesca. org (up to 20 internships at once) Most of the pictures/footage pull at your heartstrings. When the farmers were talking about the coyotes killing their livestock but in the background there is a picture of the coyote stuck in a trap. Beneficial editing, they only included that points in the discussion that supported their stance. Compensatory population would generally stay the same. Additive there would be a decrease in the deer population. Hypothesis declines in survival could be offset by the limitation of harvest of female deer. Making an ethical argument for or against lethal control of coyotes. Research shows that when coyotes are lethally controlled in the west fecundity and birth frequency increase to reestablish the population. Ethically there are better alternatives to lethally controlling the population. Traps and inaccurate shooting cause pain to the coyote. We do see coyotes as a problem, so they do need to be controlled.

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