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Understanding Wildlife Habitat

Discover the crucial elements of wildlife habitat—cover, food, water, and space—and how to provide them in the right balance to support animals' needs. Learn about carrying capacity, cover provision, and food sources for sustainable ecosystems. Find out how to help wildlife thrive by growing vegetation, offering structures, and planting diverse trees and shrubs.

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Understanding Wildlife Habitat

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  1. Understanding Wildlife Habitat

  2. What is Wildlife Habitat? The kind of place where an… • Animal • Bird • Fish • or plant live in a natural state.

  3. Elements of Habitat • COVER • FOOD • WATER • SPACE These elements must be kept in a favorable balance for Wildlife to survive.

  4. Balance means… • Elements are available in adequate amounts • Are of high enough quality to meet the needs of animals • Are distributed where animals need them

  5. Carrying Capacity • Number of animals a habitat can support over a given period of time • Not a constant number • Changes as the condition of the habitat changes

  6. Providing Cover • Breeding area • Nesting area • Hiding place • Resting place • Safe place to sleep • Feeding area; and • Travel route

  7. How can we help?? • Growing vegetation • Provide structures • Learn cover needs • Plant trees and shrubs of various sizes and species • Nest boxes for wood ducks • Conifer plantings for ruffed grouse **Provide vegetative travel lanes between types of cover

  8. Providing food • Animals must eat • Get food by grazing • Killing • Eating other animals • Bird feeder (small scale) • Larger feeding stations

  9. Can be harmful? • If not done properly • Animals (deer) may become too dependant • May encourage overpopulations

  10. Alternative to feeding… • Encourage growth of natural sources offood • Plant trees • Wild apple trees • Crops • Wild rice • Plant crops that provide both food and shelter for animals and birds.

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