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February, WS' NWRC hosted the annual review 

 of USDA research of interest to DoD. USDA 

 research was presented by scientists repre- 

 senting the Forest Service, Agricultural 

 Research Service, and APHIS-WS. Participat- 

 ing NWRC scientists focused on research 

 involving chemical repellants, reproductive 

 inhibitors, integrated pest management, bird- 

 aircraft interactions, chemical registration, and 

 BTS control. About 80 representatives from 

 USDA, DoD, the Centers for Disease Control 

 and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Geologi- 

 cal Survey attended this symposium, the first 

 such meeting held at the new NWRC Wildlife 

 Science Building in Fort Collins, CO. 



NWRC began planning for a conference on 

 economic issues related to human-wildlife 

 conflicts to be held in August 2000. The 

 conference will feature invited expert speakers 

 to present discussions on a variety of topics, 

 such as methods for quantifying resource 

 damage caused by wildlife, case studies of 

 damage caused by wildlife to agricultural 

 commodities, costs and the implementation of 

 management programs to control the spread of 

 wildlife-related diseases to humans and 

 domestic livestock, costs associated with 

 damage caused by wildlife to nonagricultural 

 activities of humans, optimization models for 

 allocating resources in the development of 

 management plans, the impact of "problem" 

 wildlife on other wildlife, and the economic 

 impact of humans on wildlife relative to 

 management issues. 



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