Wildlife Management Practices
WMP
What is Wildlife Management Practices?
A type of wood that woodpeckers need for excavating
What is softwood?
is not an option for migratory species, such as waterfowl and mourning dove, because the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service sets bag limits and individual landowners cannot influence population levels of migratory species.
What is Decrease & Increase Harvest?
There are ___ number of Fish Pond & Stream Management Practices.
What is 7?
where two vegetation types or seral stages meet
What is edge?
True or False... Current conditions should be considered when deciding if a WMP needs to be applied within the next year.
What is true?
This practice should be recommended only when a crop is present or is planned for the current growing season.
What is Delay Crop Harvest?
Wildlife managers use both lethal and nonlethal methods to control these problems.
What is Wildlife Damage Management Techniques?
This practice should be recommended when creating new fish ponds with relatively permanent water or when an existing old pond has filled in with sediment and no longer holds sufficient water.
What is construct fish ponds?
varies dramatically from site to site, even within a given field or forest type.
What is vertical structure?
Are used to manage wildlife and their habitat.
What is Wildlife Management Practices
Fire, mechanical applications, and herbicide applications are three primary techniques used by wildlife managers for this management practice.
What is set-back succession?
may be necessary when data indicate populations are declining, especially in areas with good habitat.
What is Decrease Harvest?
Effects of practice: Improves water quality by removing or settling silt, allows sunlight to stimulate phytoplankton
What is reduce turbidity in fish pond?
to stimulate and return to good health and vigor
What is rejuvenate?
Name the 4 population manage practices.
What is decrease harvest, increase harvest, wildlife or fish survey, and wildlife damage management?
All four of these techniques involve large equipment and are implemented to reduce woody cover and stimulate more herbaceous cover.
What is dozer-clearing, root-plowing, chaining, and drum-chopping?
Data on various species are routinely collected by wildlife biologists using observation counts, roadside counts, call counts, point counts, check-in stations, infrared-triggered cameras, transects, questionnaires, and other techniques.
What is Wildlife or Fish Survey?
As surface area coverage by vegetation exceeds 33 percent, the ability of predator species to access forage species may become reduced and therefore negatively impact the balance of the fish populations.
What is Control Aquatic Vegetation?
a measure of water clarity as influenced by suspension of sediment or other materials.
What is turbidity?
Name 6 wildlife habitat management practices.
What is page 221?
Eliminates erosion and sedimentation, enables pond or impounded wetland to fill to appropriate level, precludes vegetation from establishing around the inside perimeter of a fish pond are all effect of practice of what?
What is repair spillway/levee?
may be necessary where populations approach or exceed carrying capacity of the area being managed.
What is increase harvest?
Allow fish to access and migrate within the stream system and between the stream and ocean to complete their life cycles.
What is Streams: Remove Fish Barriers?
Which animal does the following management practices belong to: control nonnative vegetation, edge feathering, field borders, forest management, plant native grasses and forbs, plant trees, set-back succession, decrease & increase harvest, wildlife damage management, & wildlife survey
What is coyote?