| PUBLICATIONID : | 46806 |
| PUBLICATIONTYPE : | 1 |
| TYPE : | Article |
| TITLE : | Out of administrative control: Absentee owners, resident elk and the shifting nature of wildlife management in southwestern Montana |
| ORIG_TITLE : | Out of administrative control: Absentee owners, resident elk and the shifting nature of wildlife management in southwestern Montana |
| AUTHOR : | Haggerty, JH and WR Travis |
| FIRST_AUTHOR : | Haggerty, JH and WR Travis |
| AUTHOR_COUNT : | 1 |
| ADDRESS : | Univ Otago, Ctr Study Agr Food & Environm, Sch Social Sci, Dunedin, New Zealand; Univ Colorado, Dept Geog, Boulder, CO 80309 USA |
| PUBLISHER : | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
| FIRSTAUTHOREMPLOYER : | 3 |
| ABBREV_JOURNAL : | Geoforum |
| BEGINPAGE : | 816 |
| ENDPAGE : | 830 |
| VOLUME : | 37 |
| ISSUE : | 5 |
| PUBLISH_DATE : | SEP |
| YEAR : | 2006 |
| URL : | http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/2006.23.pdf |
| REFEREED : | 1 |
| RESOURCE : | WOS:000240031700014 |
| CITATION : | 13 |
| DEPT : | CSTPR |
| LAST_UPDATED : | 2012-11-15 12:52:20 |
| ISSN : | 0016-7185 |
| IDS : | 077LU |
| DOI : | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.12.004 |
| ABSTRACT : | This paper describes the historical roots of an ongoing wildlife management dilemma involving decreasing opportunities for elk management via public hunting on private land in the context of an expanding elk presence on private land in southwest Montana. Our main focus is on the role of private ranchland in elk ecology, and the ability of land owners to set elk migration in new directions through cumulative decisions about hunting and tolerating elk. This takes elk management, traditionally the purview of the state, out of administrative control. We document connections between the region's historical and emerging land tenure patterns, and analyze associated changes in hunter access. Elk numbers expanded rapidly in the Upper Yellowstone Valley at a moment of significant transition in ranchland tenure. New owners more interested in natural amenities than in livestock production encouraged the elk and discouraged hunting. This reinforced the spread of elk, and further weakened the ability of the state and other ranchers to manage elk (which interfere with livestock production in numerous ways). Though elk and cattle use the landscape in similar ways, elk became more effective agents of landscape change in a reflexive relationship with ideas of land that stress natural amenities over production. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| KEYWORDS : | land tenure; elk (Cervus elaphus); Yellowstone National Park; ranching; hunting; access; private property; wildlife management; animal geography |
| KEYWORD_PLUS : | WEST; YELLOWSTONE |
| AREA : | Geography |
| FIRST_AUTHOR_EMAIL : | julia.haggerty@stonebow.otago.ac.nz; william.travis@colorado.edu |
| PUBLICATION : | GEOFORUM |
| PLACE : | OXFORD |
| LANGUAGE : | English |
| SERIAL : | 46806 |
| PAGES : | 816-830 |
| APPROVED : | yes |
| ONLINE_PUBLICATION : | no |
| VERSION : | 1 |
| FIRST_AUTHOR_ADDRESS : | Haggerty, JH (reprint author), Univ Otago, Ctr Study Agr Food & Environm, Sch Social Sci, POB 56, Dunedin, New Zealand |
| AUTHOR_OTHER_FORM : | Haggerty, Julia Hobson; Travis, William R. |
| REFERENCES_NUM : | 51 |
| PUBLISHER_ADDRESS : | THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND |
| COUNT : | 1 |
| Entered by : | William R. Travis |
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