Wildlife Management
Activities related to Wildlife Management
Below are
examples of activities that can be used while studying wildlife management.
Project WILD
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – Students use
photographs to examine the changes in public attitude toward wildlife and
wildlife management.Bird Song Survey – Students will identify and describe the importance of bird counting as one means of inventorying wildlife population.
Checks and Balances – Students evaluate hypothetical wildlife management decisions.
Deer Crossing – Students identify various factors involved in wildlife management issues.
Deer Dilemma – Students take on the role of a board of commissioners who must deal with an ever increasing deer population.
Dropping in on Deer – Students count deer pellet groups to estimate the population density of a given area.
Project Learning Tree
400-Acre Wood – Students play the role of managers of
a 400-acre piece of public forest. The Forest of S.T. Shrew – Students take a “shrew’s eye view” of the forest and gain an appreciation of the animals that make forests their home.
Book List
Ballard, C. 2008. Watching
Wildlife: Animal Habitats. Heinemann.Dinsmore, J.J. 1994. A Country So Full of Game: The Story of Wildlife in Iowa. University of Iowa Press.
Dinsmore, S. 1995. Iowa Wildlife Viewing Guide. Falcon.
Hyett, B.H. 1996. The Tracks We Leave: Poems on Endangered Wildlife of North America. University of Illinois Press.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources. 2000. Iowa: Portrait of the Land. Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
Kurtz, C. 1996. Iowa’s Wild Places. Ames: Iowa State University Press.
Laubach, C & Laubach,R. 2002. Raptors: A Kid’s Guide to Birds of Prey. Storey Kids.
Leopold, A. 1989. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press.
Love, D., and J.M. Turley. 2005. Awesome Osprey: Fishing Birds of the World. Mountain Press Publishing Company.
Savage, C. 1993. Peregrine Falcons. Sierra Club Books for Children.
Tait, M. 2006. Animal Tragic: Popular Misconceptions of Wildlife through the Centuries. Think Books.
Walker, B., Salt,D., and Reid, W. 2006. Resilience Thinking : Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. New York: Island P.
Iowa Wildlife Cameras:
Dickinson
County Conservation Board: Okoboji Osprey Camerahttp://dickinsoncountyconservationboard.com/osprey-camera/
Decorah Eagles
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
IDNR
Falcon Cams
http://www.iowadnr.gov/InsideDNR/SocialMediaPressRoom/IowaDNRVideos/IowaDNRLiveFalconCam.aspx
Scott
County Owl Camera
http://www.scottcountyiowa.com/webcams/webcam_120.php
Alcoa
Eagle Cam
http://www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_davenport/en/info_page/eaglecam.asp
Scott
County Bird Feeder Camera
http://www.scottcountyiowa.com/webcams/webcam_121.php
IDNR Trout
Cam
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iowadnr