1. Wildlife Management:

2. The techniques use to maintain a balance between food, cover and water, and the number of animal population Goal: to maintain and support healthy herds and flocks

3. Endangered Species: species with population so low, they could easily become extinct

4. Threatened Species: species with below healthy populations and nearly endangered

5. Indicator Species: A species, that if extinction occurs, may indicate a bigger, global problem Usually small and rarely seen wildlife

6. Indicator species can be BIG too.

7. But why?

8. Thirsty?

9. Take a deep breath.

10. EX. amphibians frogs newts salamanders snakes birth defects, deformities, massive fish kills

11. Where???

12. North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission

13. NCWRC (biologists) Try to study & make predictions about wildlife populations How? helicopters counting tracks and droppings, spot-lighting animal dissections radio/leg band tracking trapping/relocating Helps set “BAG LIMITS”

14. What are bag limits? Bag limits- pre-determined number of animals that can legally be harvested each season -based on hunters harvest reports -based on road-kill numbers from car insurance companies

15. Why are bag limits important? If hunters harvest too many rabbits/squirrels/deer/ etc. Predator numbers will….. GO DOWN

16. NCWRC (Game Wardens) (animal police) -education catching poachers checking licenses wildlife research search & rescue boating rules

17. Poaching illegally harvesting wildlife

18. Poaching = $$$

19. Traps/Snares

22. Fighting Back!!!

23. Stopping Poaching With Technology:

24. Fair or Unfair??? Spot-lighting Baiting Snares Traps Turkey hooks

25. Habitat Management: BIG 3 1) Shelter/Cover 2) Water

26. 3) Food (hard mast, soft mast & browse)

27. Food Chain/Trophic Levels

28. Where are we on the food chain?

29. Are humans the top predator?

31. Forest mgmt and wildlife mgmt go hand in hand. Forestry decisions affect wildlife habitat. Timber companies have to use wildlife as an excuse to harvest timber.

32. clearcut -animals leave but soon return and thrive -thick cover (browse, shelter, in sunshine and out of wind) -insects (for turkey poults and songbirds) -rodents and small animals (for birds of prey like owls, hawks, eagles)

33. select cut - don’t harvest trees that feed wildlife (oak, hickory, apple, persimmon) - Leave old dead snags for den- sites

34. old growth -not very supportive of wildlife -not mast producing and just too BIG

35. Herbivores – plant eaters

36. Carnivores – meat eaters

37. Omnivores – both plants and animals

38. Saprotrophs – dead, rotting organic matter

39. All of the above? (Caahhh Caahhh!!!)