ABSTRACT
In 2010, The Wildlife Society (TWS) posted a position statement, which expired in March 2015, that contained eight key elements representing the official TWS policy regarding urban wildlife and the principal components of urban wildlife management. This chapter examines the degree to which the TWS policy statement represents actual practices in urban wildlife management and research. The traditional wildlife management curricula still produces wildlife biologists who, for the most part, focus their attentions on game, nongame, or threatened and endangered species in nonurban habitats. The chapter addresses four methods of a wildlife problem in an urban community. These include avoiding the problem altogether, getting at the root cause of the problem, attacking the symptoms, or doing nothing. The chapter presents examples to illustrate how urban wildlife management can become an integral part of the training and experience of wildlife professionals now and in the future.
