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Wildlife Management Course Outline
Unit 0: Introduction to Agriculture Education
Lesson 1: Benefits of FFA and Agricultural Education
Objectives:
1. Explain the benefits of enrolling in agricultural education
2. Explain the benefits of being an FFA member
3. Explain the steps in the FFA degree ladder
Lesson 2: Supervised Agricultural Experience Projects
Objectives:
1. Identify awards programs relative to individual interests
2. Explain why SAEP’s are important
3. Develop plans for a supervised agricultural experience program
Unit 1: Introduction to Wildlife Management
Lesson 1: Define Wildlife Management
Objectives:
1. Define wildlife management
2. Compare wildlife management to other agricultural sciences
3. Explain wildlife conservation, preservation, management, and recreation
Lesson 2: Importance of Wildlife Management
Objectives:
1. Explain the importance of wildlife resources
2. Define the values placed on wildlife populations
3. Explain the role of regulated sport hunting in wildlife management
4. Explain the economic impact of wildlife and wildlife management
Lesson 3: History of Wildlife Management
Objectives:
1. Create a timeline of game management
2. Identify major trends in wildlife management philosophies and practices
3. Compare modern wildlife management strategies with current American attitudes
concerning wildlife
Lesson 4: Laws, Agencies, and Organizations With Concern for Wildlife
Objectives:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of current legislation regarding wildlife management
and the regulation of hunting activity
2. Identify state and federal agencies involved in wildlife management and their role.
3. Compare and contrast groups and organizations that support wildlife management
through their official position on regulated hunting and other wildlife management
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techniques
Lesson 5: Career Opportunities in Wildlife
Objectives:
1. Identify career and entrepreneurship opportunities in wildlife management
2. Identify employer expectations, including work habits and citizenship skills
3. Demonstrate appropriate occupational safety skills
4. Identify some characteristics of wildlife and fisheries careers
Unit 2: Wildlife and Fish Species of Georgia
Lesson 1: Game and Non-Game Wildlife
Objectives:
1. Define wildlife and differentiate between game and non-game species
2. Define and identify rare, threatened, endangered, and extinct species
2. Define the levels of classification of game species
Lesson 2: Identifying Wildlife from Physical Evidence
Objectives:
1. Identify deer from physical evidence in the environment
2. Identify turkeys from physical evidence in the environment
3. Identify quail from physical evidence in the environment
4. Identify coyotes from physical evidence in the environment
5. Identify beavers from physical evidence in the environment
Lesson 3: Large Mammals
Objectives:
1. Identify the common large mammals found in the United States
2. Describe the characteristics of each of the common large mammals found in the United
States
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 4: Small Mammals
Objectives:
1. Identify the common small mammals found in the United States
2. Describe the characteristics of each of the common small mammals found in the
United States
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 5: Upland Game Birds
Objectives:
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1. Identify common upland game birds found in the United States
2. Describe the characteristics of each of the common upland game birds found in the
United States
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 6: Ducks, Geese, Swans, and Cranes
Objectives:
1. Identify the common ducks, geese, swans, and cranes found in the United States
2. Describe the characteristics of each species
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 7: Songbirds
Objectives:
1. Identify commonly observed birds and songbirds found in the United States
2. Describe the characteristics of each species
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 8: Avian Predators
Objectives
1. Identify avian predators commonly found in the United States
2. Describe the characteristics of each species
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 9: Common Shorebirds, Herons, and Egrets
Objectives:
1. Identify common shorebirds, herons, and egrets
2. Describe the characteristics of each species
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 10: Reptiles
Objectives:
1. Identify common reptiles
2. Describe the characteristics of each species
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
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5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 11: Amphibians
Objectives:
1. Identify common amphibians
2. Describe the characteristics of each species
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 12: Fish
Objectives:
1. Identify common amphibians
2. Describe the characteristics of each species
3. Define the habitat of each species
4. List major food sources for each species
5. Describe behavioral traits of each species
Lesson 13: Nuisance species – Beavers, coyotes, etc
Objectives:
1. Define nuisance species
2. Identify common nuisance species
3. Describe the characteristics of each species
4. Define the habitat of each species
5. List major food sources for each species
6. Describe behavioral traits of each species
7. Describe different preventative and removal techniques for nuisance species
Unit 3: Ecological Concepts and Ecosystems
Lesson 1: Wildlife Ecology
Objectives:
1. Define ecology and ecosystems
2. List and describe different types of ecosystems
3. Define terms associated with wildlife ecology
Lesson 2: Components and functions of ecosystems
Objectives:
1. Explain biodiversity as related to wildlife populations
2. Describe the various components and functions of ecosystems
3. Explain the concept of food chains and food webs
Lesson 3: Components of Habitats
Objectives:
1. Define habitat and describe its components
2. Identify habitat requirements for specific species
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3. Explain plant succession and its relationship to wildlife habitat
Lesson 4: Habitat Availability
Objectives:
1. Describe the relationship between habitat availability and wildlife populations
2. Define carrying capacity in biological and cultural terms
3. Explain the “Edge Effect” and its importance
Lesson 5: Habitat Quality Index
Objectives:
1. Describe habitat mix
2. Describe how habitat growth is classified
3. Calculate a habitat quality index
4. Evaluate habitat from aerial photographs
Lesson 6: Food Sources for Wildlife
Objectives:
1. Identify plant materials that serve as food and/or cover for wildlife species
2. Explain browse production and identify some wildlife species that eat browse plants
3. Explain herbage production and identify some wildlife species that consume herbage
plants
4. Explain mast production and identify some wildlife species that consume mast off of
plants
Lesson 7: Freshwater Habitats
Objectives:
1. Identify the different type of freshwater habitats
2. Describe techniques of management for freshwater habitats
3. Describe some of the characteristics of healthy aquatic habitats
4. Identify potential problems that could affect freshwater habitats
Lesson 8: Pollution and its Effects on Wildlife and Their Habitats
Objectives:
1. Describe pollution and types of pollutants
2. Distinguish between point and non-point pollution
3. Explain how pollutants affect wildlife
4. Identify pollution sources that endanger wildlife
5. Identify strategies for preventing pollution of wildlife habitat
6. Identify strategies for restoring polluted habitats
Unit 4: Wildlife Biology
Lesson 1: Classification and Stages of Growth and Development in Wildlife
Objectives:
1. Describe how animals are named by scientific classification
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2. Describe the stages throughout the lifespan of wildlife organisms
3. Explain the importance of life processes in living wildlife organisms
4. Define indeterminate growth and how it relates to fish.
Lesson 2: Nutrition and Digestive Systems
Objectives:
1. Explain and identify the essential nutrient needs of selected wildlife species (deer,
turkeys, and quail).
2. Define carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore and give examples of each.
Lesson 3: Reproductive Systems
Objectives:
1. Differentiate between the sex of wildlife species
2. Describe the reproductive systems of selected wildlife species (deer, turkeys, quail,
coyotes, and beavers)
Lesson 4: Physiology and Anatomy of Wildlife
Objectives
1. Describe the physiology and anatomy of selected wildlife species
2. Identify wildlife species by their tracks
3. Determine the age of deer by observing its teeth structure
4. Determine the general age of deer by observing tracks
Lesson 5: Migration and Range Patterns of Wildlife
Objectives:
1. Determine home range, space requirements and travel patterns of deer
2. Determine home range, space requirements and travel patterns of turkeys
3. Determine home range, space requirements and travel patterns of quail
Unit 5: Wildlife Damage and Human Interaction
Lesson 1: Human and Wildlife Conflicts
Objectives
1. Discuss how wildlife populations conflict with human interest
2. Identify and describe methods of human and wildlife conflict resolution
Lesson 2: Wildlife Damage Control
1. Identify the government’s role in wildlife damage control
2. Distinguish between predator/wildlife degradation and non-wildlife degradation
3. Define habitat destruction, fragmentation and species adaptability
4. Identify local areas of habitat destruction and habitat fragmentation
Unit 6: Populations Dynamics
Lesson 1: Population Management
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Objectives:
1. Define populations in wildlife
2. Explain the concepts of limiting factors and surplus wildlife
3. Explain the relationship between carrying capacity, limiting factors and wildlife
populations
4. Demonstrate population management techniques
Lesson 2: Biotic Potential
Objectives:
1. Define productivity, birth rate, and the death rate
2. Describe factors affecting birth rate and death rate
3. Explain the concept of surplus as it relates to wildlife populations
4. Define biotic potential and calculate biotic potentials for selected species
Lesson 3: Inversity and Compensation
Objectives:
1. Explain the principle of inversity
2. Explain the principle of compensation
3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of stocking wildlife
Lesson 4: Population Analysis
Objectives:
1. Recognize population curves that depict population changes among various species
2. Recognize cause and effect relationships represented by population curves and how
they are utilized in managing wildlife populations
Lesson 5: Predation
2. Describe the role of predation on animal wildlife
1. Explain the relationship of populations to habitat
3. Explain the difference between predation and competition
Unit 7: Hunting and Trapping
Lesson 1: Hunter Safety/Ethics
Objectives:
1. Demonstrate an understand of the causes and effects of hunting and firearm accidents
2. Compare and contrast groups and organizations that support wildlife management
through their official position on regulated hunting and other wildlife management
techniques
3. Identify ways in which hunting and firearm accidents can be prevented
4. Develop an understanding of hunter ethics and why they are important to the well
being of wildlife
5. Explain landowner and property rights
Lesson 2: Hunting
Objectives:
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1. Explain the relevance of hunting to other conservation efforts
2. Explain the different methods of hunting for selected wildlife species
3. Describe how different harvested game is prepared
Lesson 3: Trapping
Objectives:
1. Describe the importance of trapping
2. Explain the purpose of trapping
3. Explain the purposes of live trapping
4. Explain the purposes of lethal trapping
5. Identify and describe different trapping equipment
6. Demonstrate correct safety procedures when handling traps
Lesson 5: Pelt Preparation
Objectives:
1. Identify different wildlife pelts
2. Demonstrate correct procedures of removing the pelt from the animal
3. Identify and explain the procedures of pelt preparation
Unit 8: Wildlife Management Principles and Practices
Lesson 1: Habitat Improvement and Management
Objectives:
1. Identify practices to improve habitat characteristics
2. Recommend approved practices for managing habitat and population
3. Identify beneficial management practices in pines and hardwoods
4. Demonstrate management practices in upland pines for wildlife
5. Demonstrate management practices in hardwoods for wildlife
6. Identify managed species found in upland pines and hardwoods
Lesson 2: Habitat Survey
Objectives:
1. Conduct a field evaluation of habitat for selected species on a given area
2. Identify habitat deficiencies in the survey area
Lesson 3: GPS and GIS Data Collection
Objectives:
1. Estimate populations of wildlife using spotlight census transact data collection
2. Explain the concept of population status
3. Utilize a hand held compass to determine traverse bearings
4. Triangulate positions using GIS database, compass bearings and GPS data
Lesson 4: Creating a Wildlife Management Plan
Objectives:
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1. Develop a wildlife management plan for a given land area with suggested practices for
improving habitat characteristics
Lesson 5: Creating a Computer Generated Map
1. Create a GIS cover type map for a given land area
2. Identify management practices to improve habitat for selected species
3. Schedule practices to optimize effectiveness
Lesson 6: Quality Deer Management
Objectives:
1. Explain the purpose and goals of quality deer management
2. Explain the relationship between game management and productivity
3. Determine harvest strategies, based on harvest data collection, to achieve a specific
objective
Lesson 7: Fish Management
Objectives:
1. Define and explain aquaculture
2. Explain how aquaculture is related to other agricultural sciences
3. Explain and differentiate between commercial and sport fishing
4. Define a fishery and explain fishery management practices
Unit 9: Diseases and Parasites of Wildlife
Lesson 1: Diseases of Wildlife
Objectives:
1. Identify common disease found in wildlife among specified species
2. Explain causes of diseases in specified wildlife
3. Describe symptoms that specified wildlife exhibit when infected with specified
diseases
Lesson 2: Parasites of Wildlife
Objectives:
1. Identify common parasites found in wildlife among specified species
2. Explain causes of parasites in specified wildlife
3. Describe symptoms that specified wildlife exhibit when infected with specified
parasites
Unit 10: Wildlife Migration
Lesson 1: Migratory Nature of Birds
Objectives:
1. Explain the migratory nature of birds and how it affects their management
2. List factors that influence and limit migration numbers
Lesson 2: Future of Migration
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Objectives:
1. Explain the importance of International cooperation and coordination for successful
and continual migration of wildlife
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