Steel foothold traps are widely used throughout North America to manage and harvest furbearers. Payne (1980) listed 6 incentives for furbearer harvest, 1 of which is to carry out "nuisance" control. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has legislative responsibility for managing coyotes (Canis latrans) that cause damage to livestock (U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. 1978), and trapping is a pri...

In this article, we develop a model for the evolution of real estate prices. A wide range of inputs, including stochastic interest rates and changing demands for the asset, are considered. Maximizing their expected utility, home owners make optimal sale decisions given these changing market conditions. Using these optimal sale decisions, we simulate the implied evolution of housing prices provi...

Objective: The objective was to determine effect of trucking distance on sale price beef calf and feeder cattle lots sold through Superior Livestock Video Auctions from 2010 2018.

In many regions of the world, traditional and local ecological knowledge is still important today for coping with environmental challenges. This study explored the relevance of such knowledge for predicting and coping with harsh winter conditions (dzud) in a remote area of western Mongolia, where government support to disasteraffected herders is restricted by weak infrastructure. Structured fac...

We model a market where identical buyers direct their search to identical capacity-constrained sellers. Sellers cannot fully commit to the list price so strategic bargaining may determine the sale price. We study search and pricing behavior in symmetric equilibrium. Sale prices exhibit equilibrium dispersion as they respond naturally to local demand conditions. Uncoordinated search decisions le...

The continued northwards spread of Rhodesian sleeping sickness or Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) within Uganda is raising concerns of overlap with the Gambian form of the disease. Disease convergence would result in compromised diagnosis and treatment for HAT. Spatial determinants for HAT are poorly understood across small areas. This study examines the relationships between Rhodesian HAT ...

A commercial destocking intervention was piloted in southern Ethiopia during the drought of early 2006. The intervention led to the purchase of an estimated 20,000 cattle valued at USD 1.01 million. On average, destocked households received USD 186 from the sale of cattle--approximately 5,405 households were involved. In terms of aid investment, the approximate cost-benefit ratio was 41:1. Duri...