1. Wildlife Fundamentals
Approaches to Wildlife Management:
1) Preservation (“hands off”)
2) Conservation (“use wisely”)
3) Management (“manipulate”)

2. Wildlife Fundamentals
Goals of management:
1) population increase
2) population decrease
3) maintain population
4) harvest population on sustained yield basis

3. “Land” to Manage 2.3 billion acres in U.S.
741 million acres in public ownership
- 336 MA = BLM
- 189 MA = USFS
- 86 MA = USFWS
- 68 MA = NPS
- 13 MA = U.S. Army

4. Review of Wildlife Fundamentals

6. Wildlife Fundamentals
Single-species vs. Ecosystem Mgt
Coarse-filter vs. Fine-filter
adaptive resource management: given current scientific understanding,
1) implement mgt. strategy, but
2) monitor effects and adjust

8. Determine Goals
&
Desires of Public
Understand
Function &
Operation of Nat. Syst.
Set Mgt Goals
Form Mgt Plan
Consider
Politics
Manipulate
Species or
Population
Habitat
Evaluate Mgt Practices
Increase, Decrease, Stabilize Pop

9. Habitat

10. Habitat Quality

13. Habitat Habitat from an evolutionary perspective
Species distribution relative to habitat dist’n
Climatic events
Pleistocene Epoch & dist’n of modern species
Evolutionary underpinnings
Adaptation & Evolution for habitat

15. Concept of Habitat Selection
Wildlife perceiving correct configuration of habitat needed for survival – differences based on age/experience/chance? – hierarchy to decision process
Niche concept (time/place/functional role) & habitat selection

16. Hutchison’s n-dimensional hypervolume

17. Testing the Hutchinsonian Niche Concept of Habitat Selection
James – work with birds in Arkansas…quantified habitat relationships
How do birds select habitat?
niche gestalt :

18. Scale Dependence
of Habitat Selection
Orders of Selection
Macrohabitat
vs.
Microhabitat

19. Proximate Factors vs. Ultimate Factors
Habitat Selection
Proximate Factors vs Ultimate Factors

21. habitat interspersion –
Leopold’s Law of Interspersion

22. Managing for Biodiversity
Paradigm of Wildlife Biology & Conservation Biology

23. Human-induced
“heterogeneity”