Fish and Wildlife Management
- Describe the meaning and purposes of fish and wildlife
conservation and management.
- List and discuss at least three major problems that
continue to threaten your state's fish and wildlife
resources.
- Describe some practical ways in which everyone can help
with the fish and wildlife effort.
- List and describe five major fish and wildlife
management practices used by managers in your state.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Construct, erect, and check regularly at least two
artificial nest boxes (wood duck, bluebird,
squirrel, etc.) and keep written records for one
nesting season.
- Construct, erect, and check regularly bird feeders
and keep written records of the kinds of birds
visiting the feeders in the wintertime.
- Design and implement a back-yard wildlife habitat
improvement project and report the results.
- Design and construct a wildlife blind near a game
trail, waterhole, salt lick, bird feeder, or
birdbath and take good photographs of make sketches
from the blind of any combination of 10 wild birds,
mammals, reptiles, or amphibians.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Observe and record 25 species of wildlife. Your
list may include mammals, birds, reptiles, or fish.
Write down when and where each animal was seen.
- List the wildlife species in your state that are
classified as endangered, threatened, exotic, game
species, furbearers, or migratory game birds.
- Start a scrapbook of North American wildlife.
Insert markers to divide the book into separate
parts for mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Collect articles on such subjects as life
histories, habitat, behavior, and feeding habits on
all four categories and place them in your notebook
accordingly. Articles and pictures may be cut from
old discarded newspapers; science, nature and
outdoor magazines; or can be photocopied from other
sources. Enter at least 10 articles on mammals, 10
on birds, 5 on reptiles, and 5 on fish. Put each
animal in alphabetical order. Include pictures
whenever possible.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Determine the age of five species of fish from
scale samples or identify various age classes of
one species in a lake and report the results.
- Conduct a creel census on a small lake to estimate
catch per unit effort.
- Examine the stomach contents of three species of
fish and record the findings.
- Make a freshwater aquarium. Include at least four
species of native plants and four species of animal
life, such as whirligig beetles, freshwater shrimp,
tadpoles, water snails, and golden shiners. After
60 days or observation, discuss with your counselor
the life cycles, food chains, and management needs
you have recognized.