ADC Timeline ADC Timeline 1886-USDA creates the Branch of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, after interviewing farmers about bird damage.
Programs concentrate on bird damage and control, and researching poisoning of house sparrows.
No direct work conducted. Advice on coyote and wolf control becomes a priority. 1914-Direct predator control work begins. 1916 -Eradication Methods Laboratory opens in Albuquerque for poison research. This is still the primary statutory law under which ADC operates today.