 Welcome!  Please get out your wildlife management homework.  Put on your thinking cap and read the board!

 In small groups:  Read the wildlife management handout completely  Share your homework  Make sure everyone understands all the tools  Write clarifying questions in the margins  7 minutes!

 Wildlife management is the science of  Determining the needs of wildlife  Creating strategies to meet these needs

 Wildlife managers need to identify  population size and carrying capacity  critical habitat  food requirements  Nesting/breeding requirements  Symbiotic relationships  Special species needs

 Census vs. Random sampling.  Random Sampling activity:

 wwf camera trap wwf camera trap  more pics more pics

 Habitat management and improvement  Setting aside reserves, coordinating with private landowners

 Removal of invasive species, replanting native species, using prescribed burns – hey, that’s YOU!!!

 Habitat management and improvement  Connecting reserves through wildlife corridors

 Habitat management and improvement  Creating artificial nesting sites (Red cockaded woodpecker in Eastern Texas)

 Debt for nature swaps  Pioneered by World Wildlife Fund  US forgives part of developing nation’s debt in exchange for commitment to set aside habitat.

 Federal program  Pays land owners to put marginal lands back into native vegetation to provide wildlife habitat  31.4 million acres currently

 Removal of invasive species, replanting native species, using prescribed burns – hey, that’s YOU!!!

 Individuals are captured in well- populated areas and moved to less- populaed areas  Increases genetic biodiversity  1996 wolves reintroduced in Yellowstone

 Usually with egg- layers – birds/amphibians  Young are raised until they can survive on their own in the wild and then released

 Genetic index of CITES species  Cross breeding of distantly-related individuals  frozen zoo frozen zoo

 Determining the needs of wildlife  Creating strategies to meet these needs

 How would you protect this species?  What would you need to know?  0-1min 50 sec

Life HistoryThreats  Chicks eat insects  Adults eat seeds and insects  Fly short distances  Nest on ground  Males “boom” on “lek” to attract mates  Habitat loss  Invasive fire ants  Over hunting for food  Trees in prairies are perches for hawks  Native predators eat 70% of eggs

 List best practices  Provide rationale for each choice