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May 27, 2010
NEVADA BOARD OF WILDLIFE COMMISSIONERS:
REPORT CARD
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to see Dr. Molde's updated Report Card dated June 23, 2010
Effectiveness in using sportsmen’s dollars to enhance the
mule deer population in Nevada by killing predators as its
only major strategy; an 11-year look.
Table 1.
|
FISCAL YEAR
|
COYOTES
KILLED
|
LIONS
KILLED
|
MULE DEER NUMBERS
|
SPORTSMEN’S
DOLLARS
SPENT
|
|
2010
|
|
|
107,000
|
FY 10 (est)
$557,330
|
|
2009
|
|
|
106,000
|
FY 04-09 (est)
$2 million
|
|
2008
|
9420
|
215
|
108,000
|
|
|
2007
|
10,468
|
180
|
114,000
|
|
|
2006
|
8427
|
154
|
110,000
|
|
|
2005
|
7370
|
141
|
107,000
|
|
|
2004
|
8454
|
238
|
105,000
|
|
|
2003
|
6135
|
170
|
109,000
|
FY 00-03
$608,400
|
|
2002
|
5896
|
209
|
108,000
|
|
|
2001
|
7163
|
227
|
129,000
|
|
|
2000
|
8215
|
164
|
133,000
|
|
|
TOTALS
|
71,548
|
1698
|
110,000
10-year avg.
|
$3,165,000
(est)
|
Explanations
for Table 1.
• Coyote kill numbers represent all sources of mortality,
and are a combination of numbers from APHIS/Wildlife
Services annual activity reports, and from NDOW’s
Statewide Fur Harvest summary. Obviously, coyote deaths are
somewhat higher than the numbers shown because of unreported
coyote killings.
• Lion kill numbers also represent all sources of
mortality and are a combination of NDOW’s lion harvest
data (sportsmen + depredation) and APHIS/Wildlife Services
annual activity reports. Until I am told differently, I do
not believe NDOW includes APHIS/Wildlife Services lion kills
in its annual summary reports.
• Mule deer population estimates are taken from NDOW’s
Big Game Population Estimate History, 1976-2010.
• Coyote and lion kill numbers are not fully available for
FY 09-10 because APHIS/Wildlife Services annual activity
reports are not posted beyond FY 08 at the present time.
However, simple observation/extrapolation of the other table
data will allow the reader to make a reasonable judgement as
to what the missing numbers will look like when they become
available in the future.
• Financial estimates of expenditures by NDOW for FY 04-09
represents my best judgment, based upon an expected annual
income of about $350,000 from the predator fee for each of
those years, and the amount of carry-over shown in NDOW’s
FY 2010 Predator Management Plan budget. I am fairly
confident of the FY 00-03 number. The FY 2010 number comes
directly from the Predator Management Plan for FY 2010
document.
• NDOW’s financial contracts with APHIS/Wildlife
Services do not fund the latter agency’s entire budget,
but simply represent reimbursement for work done on behalf
of NDOW/Commission. Recently, that financial commitment to
APHIS/Wildlife Services represents approximately $250,000 -
$400,000/year.
GRADES:
- Creativity/flexibility/ability to adjust strategy/evaluate
results: F
- Benefit derived for sportsmen/mule deer/general public
for resources expended: F
Send all comments, suggestions, opposing ideas to skyshrink@aol.com
Donald A. Molde, M.D
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