The Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit program

This book is about the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units and how the program has evolved since its inception Resource management by the states where units are located and by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service exhibits a co-evolution. The units influenced the evolution by providing continuingly new information from research, by actively teaching natural-\resource management to new groups of students, and by working in close partnership with land-grant universities and state wildlife agencies. The future with its ever-increasing human population will continue to place new demands on resources and, in turn, will initiate new demands for information to meet the continuing challenges of natural-resource management. This book documents the formation, activities, administration, personnel, and operation of the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program and its contributions to management of natural resources. Much of the information is found only in unpublished reports, memos, and other documents in archives and files. Little information is available in published literature, which explains the scarcity of citations in the text.