GET IN THE ZONE!
 1. Interactive
notebook!
 2. Notes from
yesterday.
 3. permission slip
and $15
 Wildlife
managers need to identify
• population size and carrying capacity
• critical habitat
• food requirements
• Nesting/breeding requirements
• Symbiotic relationships
• Special species needs
 Census
(counting
each individual)
 Random Sampling
(estimating
population size from
smaller sample)
 Habitat
management and improvement
• Setting aside reserves, coordinating with private
landowners
 Connecting
fragmented habitat allows
animals from each smaller area to safely
get to other areas.
 Habitat
management and improvement
• Creating artificial nesting sites (Red cockaded
woodpecker in Eastern Texas) saves the bird
time so they can reproduce more frequently
 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
 Individuals
are
captured in wellpopulated areas and
moved to lesspopulaed areas
 Increases genetic
biodiversity
 1996
wolves
reintroduced in
Yellowstone
 Camera
traps on
trees. When an
animal crosses the
infrared beam of light
a picture is taken.
Wildlife managers
can tell exactly when
the animal was there.
 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
endangered species
 Cross breeding of
distantly-related
individuals to
improve the
population
 Radio
collars can be
put on
birds/mammals to
keep track of what
habitat they use and
whether they are
alive or dead.
 Oct
21 – Wildlife Management tools
 Glue
in yesterday’s notes.
1973
Creates
a list of threatened and
endangered species
Organisms on the list cannot be
harmed and their habitat cannot be
disrupted
All species on the list must have a
recovery plan
 US
Fish and Wildlife Service
 Marine National Fisheries Service
 Check
out the “boxscore” by the Fish and
Wildlife Service
 USFWS box score
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How would you protect
this species?
What would you need
to know?
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0-1min 50 sec
LIFE HISTORY
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Chicks eat insects
Adults eat seeds and
insects
Fly short distances
Nest on ground
Males “boom” on “lek” to
attract mates
THREATS
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Habitat loss
Invasive fire ants
Over hunting for food
Trees in prairies are
perches for hawks
Native predators eat 70%
of eggs
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
PAGE, LEFT SIDE
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List best practices
Provide rationale for each
choice (explanation)