Wildlife Management 



1 



has two production goals 



I . 



1 



is the art of 



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Population 

 Management: 



Manipulatmg 



animal 



populations 



to achieve 



desired 



objectives 



Habitat 

 Management; 



Manipulating 

 habitat to 

 produce 

 species or 

 numbers of 

 individuals 



I 



Species 



Richness 



Management: 



To maintain 

 the highest 

 possible number 

 of resident 

 species in 

 viable numbers 



Featured 



Species 



Management: 



To produce 

 desired species 

 in the location 

 and numbers 

 necessary to 

 accomplish goals 



1 



which may be applied 



i ■ L 



singly 



simultaneously 



Figure t. The kind and goals of wildlife management. ^ 



Figure 2. The goals, objectives, and process of major kinds of management.^ 



cost and time from describing habitats in terms of categories such as plant 

 communities and successional stages or structural conditions and by subsequently 

 relating the species present to those habitat categories. 



HABITAT ANALYSIS - HABITAT EVALUATION 



PROCEDURES (HEP) 



Two predominant approaches evolved in the 70s to answer the demands of the law 

 and the need for information on species/ habitat relationships. The U.S. Fish and 



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