Title page, Message from the author, Disclaimer, Citation, Acknowledgments

Document overview

Table of Contents, , Acronyms and Abbreviations

1.1 Problem Origins

1.2 From Rare Migrant to Locally Overabundant

1.3 First Management Efforts

1.4 Guardians of Mid-Island Estuaries Society

1.5 Study Area

2.1 Overview

2.2 Purpose and Goals

2.3 Towards an Estuarine Marsh Restoration Plan

3.1 Taxonomy

3.2 Food Preferences

3.3 Habitat Preferences

4.1 Jurisdiction

4.2 Pacific Flyway Council

4.3 Migratory Birds Convention Act

4.4 Migratory Birds Regulations

4.5 Wildlife Policy for Canada

4.6 Hunting Regulations

4.7 BC Wildlife Act Permits

4.8 Firearm Regulations

4.9 Processing Non-hunted Wild Game for Consumption

4.10 Aboriginal/Indigenous Rights

5.1 Few Benefits, Many Problems

5.2 Impacts to Estuaries

5.3 Other Ecological Impacts

5.4 Socio-economic Impacts

6.1 Banding

6.2 Goose Surveys

6.3 Subpopulations

6.4 Migrant Types

6.5 Relative Abundance of Migrant Types and Subpopulations

Spring migration, nesting, moulting, fall migration, overwintering periods

8.1 Spring Migration and Pre-nesting

8.2 Nesting

8.3 Brood-rearing

8.4 Moulting

8.5 Transition - Moulting to Autumn Migration

8.6 Autumn Migration

8.7 Overwintering

​9.1 Hotspots

9.2 Site Fidelity

9.3 Nest Density

10.1 Statistical Analysis

10.2 External Data Sources

10.3 Life History by the Numbers

11.1 International 

11.2 National

11.3 Regional

12.1 Status Quo

12.2 No Action

12.3 Additional Non-lethal Controls

12.4 Additional Lethal Controls

12.5 Renewable Resources

12.6 Compensation

SWOT analysis of management options

13.1 Ecological Carrying Capacity

13.2 Social Carrying Capacity

13.3 Alternatives to Carrying Capacity

14.1 Responsibilities

14.2 Population Objectives

14.3 Spatial Objectives

14.4 Temporal Objectives

14.5 Social Objectives

14.6 Monitoring

14.7 Timelines

14.8 Actions

Table of management objectives

References

A. Survey Sites

B. Calendars

C. Limitations

D. Encounter Histories