Fish and Wildlife Management by Jim Szpakowski

Fish and Wildlife Management
Compiled by Jim Szpakowski

Wildlife Management: is the process of keeping certain wildlife populations at desirable levels determined by wildlife managers. Wildlife management is interdisciplinary, integrating science, politics, mathematics, imagination, and logic. It deals with protecting endangered and threatened species and subspecies and their habitats, as well as with non-threatened agricultural pests and game species. Aldo Leopold, one of the pioneers of wildlife management, defined it as "the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wildlife." (Wikipedia)

Examples:	With advice and assistance from state conservation department officials, introduce carp and catfish into algae-choked farm ponds to help reduce the algae load. Build nesting boxes and set them out for waterfowl. Plant hundreds of trees for windbreaks in at least 10 fields for wildlife habitat and to help control soil erosion. Plant native grasses for the benefit of quail and prairie chickens. Using a portable puppet theater, make presentations on fish and wildlife conservation to young children.
SHAC Completed Projects: *Bold completed projects = done by Troop 100	Ridley Turtle Project, Mexico Fish & Wildlife Management Pens for Wolves Construct/Install Bathhouses Wood Duck Nesting Boxes (10.4 MB doc) Rehab cages for raptors Cane Transplanting (3.4 MB doc) Urban tree planting (31.9 MB doc) Reestablishment of butterfly & moth habitat Improving habitat for Red Cockaded Woodpecker Improve wetlands ecology for training site in Hermann Park Butterfly Habitat Restoration of aquatic ecosystems in demonstration ponds in Hermann Park (11.8 MB doc) Habitat Enhancement for Red Cockaded Woodpecker Galveston Bay Restoration Project (18.9 MB doc) * Animals of New Territory - in progress * Animals of New Territory (Unit) - in progress
Current Projects	Search Interactive conservation map Projects by Hornaday Category
Links	Google - Fish and Wildlife Management Wikipedia: Wildlife Management Google - Endangered Species Wikipedia: Endangered Species Google - Habitat Restoration Wikipedia: Habitat Google - Wetlands USFWS: Wetlands Information Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: Wetlands US Army Corps of Engineers: The Young Scientist's Introduction to Wetlands
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