Rats! Foiled Again: A History of Rodent Control Methods Development at the National Wildlife Research Center

摘要: The National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) and its predecessor laboratories have a long history of developing ma- terials methods for managing rodents the damage they cause. NWRC has been influential in exploring, developing, maintaining legal uses many traditional field rodenticides such as strychnine zinc phosphide. Products developed variety locales, species, from commensal urban areas, to pocket gophers mountain beaver forests, prairie dogs ground squirrels on rangelands, nutria wetlands. Consid- erable research also conducted underdeveloped countries. Recent efforts by focused development tools invasive conservation areas island ecosystems alternative, nonlethal control methods.