Wildlife Test Bank

Wildlife Test Bank Wildlife management, as we know it today, has evolved during the past ________ years. - CORRECT ASNWERS 75-100 As early as 1694, Massachusetts declared a ________ on white - CORRECT ASNWERS tailed deer as an early effort at wildlife management. - closed season The period from ________ saw the greatest abuse of wild animals in North America. - CORRECT ASNWERS By 1776 every southeastern state except ________ had established a closed season on deer. - CORRECT ASNWERS Georgia From the very beginning in Jamestown, the English settlers had no intention of adapting to the ________. - CORRECT ASNWERS wilderness A native of Scotland, who lived in Philadelphia, and who was an early observer of American wildlife was: - CORRECT ASNWERS Alexander Wilson In 1810, Alexander Wilson observed a flock of ________ in Kentucky. - CORRECT ASNWERS passenger pigeons Occuring in the mid - CORRECT ASNWERS 1870s, an estimated ________ birds were devastated by market hunters from all over the country. - 136 million Though they will never number in the millions, as they did in the 1800s, it is a tribute to early ________ that the bison and pronghorn are here at all. - CORRECT ASNWERS conservationists The passage of the ________ in 1900 ended market hunting and the interstate shipment of wildlife and wildlife products, such as feathers, taken in violation of state law. - CORRECT ASNWERS Lacey Act This president has been called the father of American conservation. - CORRECT ASNWERS Theodore Roosevelt Yellowstone National Park, the nation's first and for many years only national park, was founded in ________. - CORRECT ASNWERS 1872 Modern ________ has evolved only since the early 1900s. - CORRECT ASNWERS wildlife management ________ had a closed season on white - CORRECT ASNWERS tailed deer as earl