Forest diversity: An approach to forest wildlife management

1975 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
Karl Siderits
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Habitat Management ◽  
Habitat Diversity ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Age Classes ◽  
Forest Diversity ◽  
Ecological Principles

The Superior National Forest has instituted a forest wildlife habitat management program which identifies vegetational type, age classes and stand distribution as prime management components. The program incorporates basic ecological principles pertaining to diversity and stability, enabling land managers to pinpoint wildlife management needs more accurately in terms of habitat diversity.

Water level management for enhanced fish and wildlife habitat production in Upper Mississippi River navigation pools : an Engineering with Nature® review of practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Theiling ◽  
Benjamin McGuire ◽  
Gretchen Benjamin ◽  
Dave Busse ◽  
Jon Hendrickson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Habitat Management ◽  
River System ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Army Corps ◽  
Upper Mississippi River ◽  
Army Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Us Army

There is a long history of fish and wildlife management associated with Upper Mississippi River navigation dams owned and operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Many operational changes have been made to improve aquatic habitat, with recent emphasis on pool-scale drawdowns to enhance wetland benefits without affecting navigation or other uses. This special report describes projects successfully incorporating Engineering With Nature® principles in a review of the physical setting and historical fish and wildlife habitat management efforts using Upper Mississippi River System navigation dams. We reviewed 80 years of adaptation and lessons learned about how to integrate navigation operations and wildlife management. Several experiments have revealed the capacity to produce thousands of hectares of emergent and submersed aquatic plants, restoring much-needed riparian habitat for a variety of aquatic, wetland, and avian species.

scholarly journals Spatially Explicit Kirtland’s Warbler Habitat Management Scheduling in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1065
Author(s):  
Eric Henderson ◽  
Howard Hoganson
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Management ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Upper Peninsula ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Kirtland's Warbler ◽  
Kirtland’S Warbler ◽  
Hiawatha National Forest

A spatially explicit management strategy is presented for Kirtland’s Warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii) habitat on the Hiawatha National Forest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Hiawatha National Forest has a goal of continuously providing large patches of dense young jack pine for Kirtland’s warbler breeding habitat. The problem is challenging as patches of suitable habitat are relatively short lived, forcing large shifts in the location of large patches in the future. In this study, alternative management strategies for providing habitat are described, explicitly mapped, and compared on a 70,600 ha landscape in the context of implementing many desired conditions of the forest’s land management plan. Strategies are developed by using two interacting scheduling models. Comparisons address overall habitat levels, habitat spatial arrangement through time, and financial trade-offs. The financial cost of managing habitat is high and there are further financial trade-offs associated with aggregating habitat into large patches. Furthermore, the marginal cost of habitat increases as more habitat is added to the management system. Managers may use information about the added costs of spatially explicit habitat management to help evaluate the added benefits to the species. It is often expensive to establish wildlife habitat and desirable ecological conditions, but results show that there are potential benefits from using detailed computer-aided management scheduling tools to support the decision-making process.

Assessing the sustainability of yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) harvest in northeastern Argentina

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Camera ◽  
Christine Stüssmann ◽  
Itxaso Quintana ◽  
Tomás Waller ◽  
Mariano Barros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Gradual Reduction ◽  
Hunting Season ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Northeastern Argentina

Abstract Sustainable wildlife management is required to guarantee source species viability; however, it is practiced rarely in the tropics. The yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) has a long history of being harvested for its leather. Since 2002 its harvest has operated under a management program in northeastern Argentina, which relies on adaptive management through limiting the minimum anaconda length, number of hunters and restricting the hunting season. We investigated the effects of the anaconda harvest on its biological parameters based on 2002-2016 data. Here we show that the levels of species exploitation are sustainable. The gradual reduction in the annual hunting effort, due to a decrease in number of hunters and hunting season duration, reduced the total number of anacondas harvested. Conversely, captures per unit effort increased across the study time-period. There was no variation in the mean length of anacondas harvested, or in largest anaconda sizes. Though more females than males were caught, the sex ratio did not vary significantly. We also found that a decrease in mean temperature positively influenced anaconda harvest and the captures of giant individuals. Because sustainable use is a powerful tool for conservation, those discoveries are highly applicable to other species and regions.

scholarly journals Financial and Wildlife Benefits from Crop Tree Release in Pole-Sized Central Hardwood Oak Stands

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Morrissey ◽  
Michael R. Saunders ◽  
William L. Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Age Classes ◽  
Importance Value ◽  
The Us ◽  
Multiobjective Approach ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Us Forest Service ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Forest Values ◽  
Returns On Investment

Abstract We simulated growth and development from 481 plots within 21 even-aged, mixed hardwood stands (21‐35 years old) under no treatment and crop tree release (CTR) treatments using the new Central States Variant of the US Forest Service Forest Vegetation Simulator. We assumed a multiobjective approach focused on financial returns (timber production) and wildlife benefits (provision of species that produce hard mast) in crop tree selection. We compared simulation results by age class, site variables, and species groups. All age classes showed returns on investment (ROI) of 7.8% or greater, but stands 26‐35 years old exhibited greater net present values (NPVs). CTR treatments across site, as delineated by aspect and slope positions, also exhibited higher NPVs, with ROI of 8.4% or greater. North and east aspects yielded higher NPVs than south and west aspects within both no-thinning and CTR treatments, and no strong patterns of NPV or ROI emerged among slope positions. CTR treatment delayed financial maturity by 5‐10 years because of increased growth rates and assumed higher quality stems. Desirable overstory mast trees for wildlife habitat, primarily oaks (Quercus spp.) and hickory (Carya spp.), increased in importance value, and mortality of crop trees declined with CTR in all age classes. Simulated CTR treatments indicated potential benefits to enhance financial and wildlife forest values in even-aged, mixed hardwood stands.

Market Forces and Kangaroos: The New South Wales Kangaroo Management Plan

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-304
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Mills
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Habitat Management ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Management Zones ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
South Wales

AbstractIn contemporary times, wildlife managers attempt to provide solutions to problems arising from conflicting uses of the environment by humans and nonhuman animals. Within the Kangaroo Management Zones of New South Wales (NSW), the commercial culling "solution" is one such attempt to perpetuate kangaroo populations on pastoral land while supporting farmers in continuing inefficient sheep farming. Because wildlife management rests on a distinction between the "nature" of humans and animals, then humanist attention to standards of individual welfare need not interrupt the process whereby individual animals are killed within an economic framework designed to improve habitat management for the conservation of their populations. Building on Thorne's (1998) discussion of the meanings scripted onto individual kangaroo bodies, this paper explores the utilitarian underpinnings of the commercialization approach and considers the ethical implications of constructing the population as resource, even if this results in an improvement in the welfare of individual kangaroos.

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