Get in the zone!

1. Get in the zone! • 1. Interactive notebook! • 2. Notes from yesterday. • 3. permission slip and $15

2. Determining wildlife needs • Wildlife managers need to identify • population size and carrying capacity • critical habitat • food requirements • Nesting/breeding requirements • Symbiotic relationships • Special species needs

3. Counting population size • Census (counting each individual) • Random Sampling (estimating population size from smaller sample)

4. Random sampling: Quadrant Sampling – population size/ diversity

6. Transect Sampling – goes ACROSS a habitat

7. Transect sampling in Armand Bayou Nature Center

8. Creating wildlife refuges • Habitat management and improvement • Setting aside reserves, coordinating with private landowners

9. Wildlife corridors Connecting fragmented habitat allows animals from each smaller area to safely get to other areas.

10. Creating artificial nesting boxes • Habitat management and improvement • Creating artificial nesting sites (Red cockaded woodpecker in Eastern Texas) saves the bird time so they can reproduce more frequently

11. Conservation Reserve Program Federal program Pays land owners to put marginal lands back into native vegetation to provide wildlife habitat 31.4 million acres currently

12. Habitat improvement • Removal of invasive species, replanting native species, using prescribed burns

13. Translocation/transplant programs • Individuals are captured in well-populated areas and moved to less-populaed areas • Increases genetic biodiversity • 1996 wolves reintroduced in Yellowstone

14. 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.

15. Captive Breeding programs • Usually with egg-layers – birds/amphibians • Young are raised until they can survive on their own in the wild and then released

16. Zoos – Species Protection Plan • Genetic index of endangered species • Cross breeding of distantly-related individuals to improve the population

17. Tracking wildlife • Radio collars can be put on birds/mammals to keep track of what habitat they use and whether they are alive or dead.

18. Interactive notebook: Oct 21 – Wildlife Management tools Glue in yesterday’s notes.

19. Endangered Species Act 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

20. The Endangered Species Act is managed by US Fish and Wildlife Service Marine National Fisheries Service

21. There are ___________ Species on the list today. Check out the “boxscore” by the Fish and Wildlife Service USFWS box score

22. Attwater’s Prairie Chicken • How would you protect this species? • What would you need to know? • 0-1min 50 sec

23. Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Life History Threats • Chicks eat insects • Adults eat seeds and insects • Fly short distances • Nest on ground • Males “boom” on “lek” to attract mates • Habitat loss • Invasive fire ants • Over hunting for food • Trees in prairies are perches for hawks • Native predators eat 70% of eggs

24. Your challenge: design a recovery plan for the APC! Interactive Notebook: Wildlife Management page, left side • List best practices • Provide rationale for each choice (explanation)

25. Quiz time – please separate your desks. Keep your interactive notebook in front of you! 