Habitat Management Practices
This is a legal agreement between a landowner and a land conservation organization or government agency that places permanent restrictions on what can be done on a property.
What is Conservation Easement?
Monitoring trends of wildlife populations and physical attributes (such as body weight) is important for wildlife managers. Data on various species are routinely collected by wildlife biologists
What is Wildlife or Fish Survey?
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 Pond?
These provide roosting and perching sites for many bird species. Standing dead trees.
What is Create Snags?
are planted to provide food (hard or soft mast) and cover for many wildlife species. Provides additional nesting, perching, denning, and roosting sites.
What is Plant Trees?
Provides increased usable space for many wildlife species, Provides nesting and/or brooding cover for many song birds, bobwhites, and wild turkeys, Can provide increased forage and seed availability if desirable forbs are established, Can prevent sedimentation and nutrient runoff
What is Field Borders?
Examples: woodpeckers hammering on the side of the house; bats or squirrels in the attic; snakes in the house; deer eating ornamental plants in the yard or depredating soybean crops
What is Wildlife Damage Management?
should be controlled when it begins to limit use of a fish pond for recreation or interferes with access.
What is Control Aquatic Vegetation?
If natural cavities or other suitable structures are not available
What is Nesting Structures?
No-till agriculture uses drills and planters that do not overturn the soil. Additionally, the use of cover crops, such as annual clovers, wheat, and brassicas (leafy greens), is recommended along with no-till agriculture.
What is Soil Conservation Agriculture?
provide nesting, bedding, roosting, and/or escape cover for many wildlife species, especially those that require early successional cover.
What is Plant Native Grasses and Forbs?
is not an option for migratory species, such as waterfowl and mourning dove, because bag limits are set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and individual landowners cannot influence population levels of migratory species
What is Increase or Decrease Harvest?
muddy water limits fish production because natural food organisms need sunlight to grow.
What is Reduce Turbidity in Fish Pond?
Provides additional food for many species, which can be particularly important when naturally occurring foods are in low supply and/or in years with poor acorn production.
What is Leave Crop Unharvested?
The appropriate structure (height and density of vegetation) and species composition (which trees and other plants are present) is essential when managing wildlife that use forested areas
What is Forest Management?
these ponds are designed for various wildlife species, not fish.
What is Water Developments for Wildlife?
As angler catch rates of channel catfish decline, impoundments are usually restocked with additional fingerlings (rather than reduce harvest) in order to maintain angling opportunities.
What is Decrease Harvest?
stimulates phytoplankton production, which is the first step in the food chain of a fish pond.
What is Fertilize/Lime Fish Pond?
involves reducing overstory tree density in woods adjacent to fields. Reducing the number of overstory trees allows more sunlight to enter the forest canopy and stimulates the understory, which provides a more diverse structure of cover from the field into the woods.
What is Edge Feathering?
When this WMP is recommended, it is implied that necessary action will be taken to implement the practice. For example, if this WMP is recommended to control mimosa or paulownia trees, it is not necessary to also recommend Chainsawing or Herbicide Applications
What is Control Nonnative Invasive Vegetation?
process by killing existing cover and stimulating fresh plant growth, Consumes litter layer and understory fuels (such as dead leaves and grass), which reduces chance of wildfire and enables the seedbank to germinate.
What is Set-Back Succession?
gamebirds and mammals may be needed when animals show signs of stress and overpopulation, such as destruction of habitat by overgrazing or overbrowsing, poor body condition and weight loss, low reproductive rate, and increase in prevalence of parasites and diseases.
What is Increase Harvest?
is a drastic measure and should only be considered after other management approaches have been attempted.
What is Restock Fish Pond?
includes both upland and aquatic plants. For this contest this practice is applicable to terrestrial and wetland areas. However, it is not applicable to fish ponds.
What is Control Nonnative Invasive Vegetation?
Low water levels can cause significant problems in ponds and impounded wetlands.
What is Repair Spillway/Levee?