Transcript Gear up science fans!

 Welcome!
 Please
get out
your wildlife
management
homework.
 Put on your
thinking cap and
read the board!
 In
small groups:
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Read the wildlife management handout
completely
Share your homework
Make sure everyone understands all the tools
Write clarifying questions in the margins
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7 minutes!
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 Wildlife
management is the
science of
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Determining the
needs of wildlife
Creating strategies
to meet these needs
 Wildlife
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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
 more pics
 Habitat
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management and improvement
Setting aside reserves, coordinating with private
landowners
 Removal
of
invasive species,
replanting native
species, using
prescribed burns –
hey, that’s YOU!!!
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 Habitat
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management and improvement
Connecting reserves through wildlife corridors
 Habitat
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management and improvement
Creating artificial nesting sites (Red cockaded
woodpecker in Eastern Texas)
 Debt
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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!!!
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 Individuals
are
captured in wellpopulated areas
and moved to lesspopulaed 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
 Determining
the needs of
wildlife
 Creating
strategies to
meet these
needs
How would you protect
this species?
 What would you need to
know?
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Life History
Chicks eat insects
 Adults eat seeds and
insects
 Fly short distances
 Nest on ground
 Males “boom” on “lek”
to attract mates
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Threats
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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List best practices
 Provide rationale for
each choice
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