ORAFT EIS GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBKKV lATIONS 



depredation: incident where livestock or guarding animals are injured or iciilcd 



draft EIS: draft environmental impact statement identifying alternatives and environmental 

 consequences 



final EIS: final environmental impact statement; must include a summary of the major conclusions and 

 supporting information from the draft environmental impact statement and the agency's responses to 

 substantive comments received on the draft 



EIS: environmental impact statement 



ESA: Endangered Species Act 



FWP: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks 



GNP: Glacier National Park 



GYA: Greater Yellowstone Area 



habituation: readily visible in close proximity to people or structures on a regular basis; not threatened 

 by close proximity and may even be attracted to human presence or human food sources; extremely rare 

 behavior in wild wolves, but typical behavior for released captive wolf or wolf-dog hybrid; for wolves, 

 may or may not involve food conditioning 



illegal mortality: wolf mortality outside the provisions of a special kill permit, defense of life or 

 property, agency management actions, a MFWP Commission approved season, or outside other 

 regulations established for the gray wolf as a legally classified "species in need of management" 



guarding animals: domestic animals (dogs, llamas etc.) that escort livestock to decrease likelihood of a 

 depredation incident by aggressively defending livestock in the presence of wolves or other predators 



legal mortality: lethal control or mortality of a wolf within the provisions of a special kill permit, 

 defense of life or property, agency management actions, a MFWP Commission-approved season, or the 

 regulations established for the gray wolf as a legally classified "species in need of management" 



lethal control: management actions that result in the death of a wolf 



livestock: cattle, calf, hog, pig, horse, mule, sheep, lamb, goat, guarding animals, emu, ostrich, poultry 



management setting: the combination of landownership patterns, land use, social factors, biological 

 constraints, and physical attributes of the environment that describe a particular area or management 

 situation 



management: the collection and application of biological information for the purposes of increasing the 

 number of individuals within species and populations of wildlife, up to the optimum carrying capacity of 

 their habitat, and maintaining such levels. The term includes the entire range of activities that constitute a 

 modern .scientific resource program including but not limited to research, census, law enforcement, 

 habitat improvement, and education. Also included within the term, when and where appropriate, is the 

 periodic or total protection of species or populations as well as regulated taking (MCA 87-5-102) 



MCA: Montana Codes Annotated 



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