Please get out your wildlife management homework.

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

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Check for understanding

• 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!

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Wildlife management
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What is it?

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

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Determining wildlife needs

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

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Why count population size accurately?

• Census vs. Random sampling.
• Random Sampling activity

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Camera traps

• wwf camera trap
• more pics

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Habitat strategies

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

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Strategies to meet wildlife needs

• Removal of invasive species, replanting native
  species, using prescribed burns hey, thats
  YOU!!! ?

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Habitat strategies

• Habitat management and improvement
• Connecting reserves through wildlife corridors

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Habitat strategies

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

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Habitat strategies

• Debt for nature swaps
• Pioneered by World Wildlife Fund
• US forgives part of developing nations debt in
  exchange for commitment to set aside habitat.

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Conservation Reserve Program

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

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Strategies to meet wildlife needs

• Removal of invasive species, replanting native
  species, using prescribed burns hey, thats
  YOU!!! ?

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Translocation/transplant programs

• Individuals are captured in well-populated areas
  and moved to less-populaed areas
• Increases genetic biodiversity

• 1996 wolves reintroduced in Yellowstone

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Captive Breeding programs

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

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Zoos Species Protection Plan

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

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Wildlife management

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

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Attwaters Prairie Chicken

• How would you protect this species?
• What would you need to know?

• 0-1min 50 sec

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Attwaters Prairie Chicken

• Life History

• Threats

• 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

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Your challenge design a recovery plan for the
APC! Which tools fit?

• List best practices
• Provide rationale for each choice