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wildlife and habitat
Revise and complete wildlife habitat management and improvement plans for all administrative units, assuring proper coordination between wildlife habitat management and other resources.
Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.
The island is primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife.
The watershed provides habitat for 609 known fish and wildlife species, including the bull trout, Bald Eagle, gray wolf, grizzly bear, and Canada lynx.
Forests support biodiversity, providing habitat for wildlife ; moreover, forests foster medicinal conservation.
air pollution from manufacturing and power plants contributing to acid rain ; water pollution from industrial wastes, agricultural chemicals ; habitat loss threatens wildlife populations
* Native plant gardening is concerned with the use of native plants with or without the intent of creating wildlife habitat.

wildlife and management
Listing the species over the whole of its range would prevent such ‘ laundering ’ but also restricts trade in wildlife products by range states with good management practices.
Biologists and wildlife management officials view the chupacabra as a contemporary legend.
* The early Conservation movement, which began in the late 19th century, included fisheries and wildlife management, water, soil conservation and sustainable forestry.
This specifically includes problems involving wildlife management.
Hunting advocates state that hunting can be a necessary component of modern wildlife management, for example to help maintain a population of healthy animals within an environment's ecological carrying capacity when natural checks such as predators are absent.
Tags may be further restricted to a specific area or wildlife management unit.
Each year, nearly $ 200 million in hunters ' federal excise taxes are distributed to state agencies to support wildlife management programs, the purchase of lands open to hunters, and hunter education and safety classes.
Illegal hunting and harvesting of wild species contrary to local and international conservation and wildlife management laws is termed poaching.
Laws may forbid sport hunters from using some methods used primarily in poaching and wildlife management.
In the US proceeds from hunting licenses contribute to state game management programs, including preservation of wildlife habitat.
Through implementation of land and resource management plans, the agency ensures sustainable ecosystems by restoring and maintaining species diversity and ecological productivity that helps provide recreation, water, timber, minerals, fish, wildlife, wilderness, and aesthetic values for current and future generations of people.
Most on-the-ground activities occur on ranger districts, including trail construction and maintenance, operation of campgrounds, and management of vegetation and wildlife habitat.
Land management of these areas focuses on timber harvesting, livestock grazing, water, wildlife, and recreation.
The early conservation movement included fisheries and wildlife management, water, soil conservation and sustainable forestry.
Tourism carrying capacity is a now antiquated approach to managing visitors in protected areas and national parks which evolved out of the fields of range, habitat and wildlife management.
Wetland / wildlife management areas include the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge ; Gillmor Sanctuary ; Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve ; Salt Creek, Public Shooting Grounds, Harold Crane, Locomotive Springs, Ogden Bay, Timpie Springs, and Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Areas.
Poaching is the illegal taking of wild plants or animals ; the law concerned may be e. g. the law of property or local or international conservation and wildlife management laws.
Modern forestry generally embraces a broad range of concerns, including assisting forests to provide timber as raw material for wood products, wildlife habitat, natural water quality management, recreation, landscape and community protection, employment, aesthetically appealing landscapes, biodiversity management, watershed management, erosion control, and preserving forests as ' sinks ' for atmospheric carbon dioxide.

wildlife and proposals
Major developments proposals for Canmore have included the Three Sisters Golf Resorts, proposed in 1992, which has been subject of contentious debate, with environmental groups arguing that the development would fragment important wildlife corridors in the Bow Valley.
As the members of the Arboretum community noted in their collective letter to the Washington State Department of Transportation, " Native plants, wetlands, and wildlife ... would be affected not only by the taking of land but by the looming shadows created by roadways in various proposals ".
Objections to the proposals include the visual and physical impact on the character of the park, increased noise levels in a currently quiet area, increased traffic and parking problems on local roads and the effect on wildlife in the area.

wildlife and for
The ultimate trail system will be of value primarily for recreation and wildlife utilization and fire protection.
Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.
Interview Island ( the largest wildlife sanctuary in the territory ) in Middle Andaman holds a population of feral elephants, which were brought in for forest work by a timber company and released when the company went bankrupt.
The island is notable for its wildlife, especially seabirds and seals.
Suggestions for improvement in the operation of CITES include: more regular missions by the Secretariat ( not reserved just for high profile species ); improvement of national legislation and enforcement ; better reporting by Parties ( and the consolidation of information from all sources-NGOs, TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network and Parties ); more emphasis on enforcement-including a technical committee enforcement officer ; the development of CITES Action Plans ( akin to Biodiversity Action Plans related to the Convention on Biological Diversity ) including: designation of Scientific / Management Authorities and national enforcement strategies ; incentives for reporting and timelines for both Action Plans and reporting.
The primary wildlife reservoirs for Trypanosoma cruzi in the United States include opossums, raccoons, armadillos, squirrels, woodrats, and mice.
poaching threatens wildlife populations ( for example, the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus is now considered extinct in the Congo due to human overpopulation and poaching ); water pollution ; deforestation ( chiefly due to land conversion to agriculture by indigenous farmers ); refugees responsible for significant deforestation, soil erosion, and wildlife poaching ; mining of minerals ( coltan — a mineral used in creating capacitors, diamonds, and gold ) causing environmental damage
Enough wild green was usually left standing ( and partially used, for example, to collect firewood, timber and fruits, or to graze pigs ) for wildlife to remain viable.
Dartmoor and the fact that a great deal of it is undisturbed for much of the year is an encouragement to the wildlife.

wildlife and period
Tynset has many wildlife areas, which are regarded as national treasures ; the geological formation at Ripan and Gammeldalen are extremely interesting: at Ripan is a lake formed by glaciation during the last Ice Age and at Gammeldalen are found some beautifully formed corries from the same period.
After a period of time talking with professional wildlife managers and hunt supporters, he concluded that: " I find it repugnant that some people will kill another living creature for recreational purposes " but said that the dogs easily outpace the fox within a minute or two and kill it within a second or two and that how the fox is located is " totally irrelevant " to animal welfare considerations.
Contrary to popular belief, Bradford's rivers were not polluted beyond redemption during this period in its history, and the streams surrounding the city are now a veritable haven of wildlife.
These Coast Guard employees also assist the Canadian Wildlife Service in maintaining the Migratory Bird Sanctuary, as well as helping any wildlife researchers who may stay on the island for a period of time.
In 1959, Edward Pritchard Gee undertook a survey of the Chitwan Valley, recommended creation of a protected area north of the Rapti River and of a wildlife sanctuary south of the river for a trial period of ten years.
The Ferguson Bayou region of this drained land did not prove to be well-suited for this purpose, although the wildlife refuge continues to use, maintain, and rebuild many of the ditches, drains, and dikes dug during this period.
It uses fencing to keep livestock off ranges near streams or water areas until after wildlife or waterfowl periods, or limiting the amount of grazing to a short period of time.
So, at that period, tea tree forested area in the mountain was so cold and even dangerous by wildlife.
This industrial period, which brought so much activity in the early quarter of the 20th century, considerably fragmented the area though the wildlife for which the Carr was once famous had long since gone.

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