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Welcome! Please get out your wildlife management homework. Put on your thinking cap and read the board! 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! Wildlife management is the science of Determining the needs of wildlife Creating strategies to meet these needs Wildlife 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 management and improvement Setting aside reserves, coordinating with private landowners Removal of invasive species, replanting native species, using prescribed burns – hey, that’s YOU!!! Habitat management and improvement Connecting reserves through wildlife corridors Habitat management and improvement Creating artificial nesting sites (Red cockaded woodpecker in Eastern Texas) Debt 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!!! 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? 0-1min 50 sec Life History Chicks eat insects Adults eat seeds and insects Fly short distances Nest on ground Males “boom” on “lek” to attract mates Threats Habitat loss Invasive fire ants Over hunting for food Trees in prairies are perches for hawks Native predators eat 70% of eggs List best practices Provide rationale for each choice