Wildlife management, also known as game management, is often compared with farming or forestry, because one of its goals is to ensure annual “crops” of wild animals. Aldo Leopold, in 1933, defined “game management” as the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use. At that time, animals considered to be game included deer and animals such as coyotes that do damage to domestic animals or crops. Now, however, the term “wildlife” has replaced... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2023. 3p.