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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Wildlife Management Areas"”.
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Characterization and communicative analysis of wildlife managers and recreational users of Virginiaâ s Wildlife Management Areas
… of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) manages wildlife management areas (WMAs) to provide wildlife habitat and hunting and fishing opportunities, along with opportunities for compatible wildlife-related recreation. Despite having responsibility for managing 39 WMAs, comprising more than 200,000 …
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Shorebird migration in western Kentucky: phenology, habitat use, and possible effects of prey availability
<p>Staging areas along the coasts provide reliable food resources and shorebirds may use the same stopover locations every year. However, shorebirds use sites opportunistically in the interior of North America due to the transient nature of many habitats. Little is known, however, about the use of …
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Effects of Prescribed Fire Regimes on White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Browse, Forage, and Nutrient Availability in the Pineywoods Ecoregion of Texas
<p>Fire is a management tool for white-tailed deer (<em>Odocoileus virginianus</em>) habitat, influencing browse availability, herbaceous production, and nutrient content. In 2020 and 2021, this study utilized 46 plots across East Texas to assess these habitat components. A stem count index survey …
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Profiling Bat Activity and Species Presence in Managed Longleaf Pine Landscapes
… or reintroduction of at-risk fauna includes management practices that while encouraging presence and proliferation of target species, may adversely affect non-focal species. An endemic ecosystem undergoing restoration within the southeastern U.S. is that of the longleaf pine (<em>Pinus …
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EFFECTIVENESS OF PRESCRIBED FIRE ON MEETING FUEL LOAD AND WILDLIFE HABITAT MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES IN EAST TEXAS NATIONAL FORESTS
… Efficacy was determined by comparing defined management objectives established by the Forest Service to the data collected at the study sites. The results conclude that most objectives, as outlined by the Forest Service, are not being met with the current practices. Re-visitation of monitoring …
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Ecology of Upland Snake Communities in Managed Montane Longleaf Pine Habitats of Georgia
… United States has led to intensive land management implementation with the goal to benefit both the ecosystem and at-risk species. Addressing at-risk snake populations in these longleaf pine ecosystems, for instance, requires understanding both community and species level ecology of …
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Conserving widely distributed wildlife species in an African savanna: parks, cattle-grazing and community-managed areas
… species are declining, but whether protected areas and the increasingly promoted multi-use community-managed wildlife areas mitigate causal threats is poorly studied. Lack of monitoring data and poorly understood species ecology limit knowledge of patterns, causal mechanisms and degree of …
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LAND SUITABILITY ANALYSIS FOR WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT IN TEXAS
… Decision Making (MCDM), for identifying suitable areas for wind turbine applications in Texas. Factors taken into consideration included socioeconomic criteria such as distance to highways, proximity to airports and urban areas, localized environmental criteria such as terrain slope and distance …
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Lion population status and ecology in a seasonally-flooded wetland, the Okavango Delta
… an edge effect along the boundaries of the wildlife management areas. This edge effect may result from retaliatory killing in response to livestock predation by lions in adjacent community areas but could also be the effect of prey depletion from bushmeat harvesting along the Okavango's …
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A comprehensive evaluation of Virginia's hunter education program
… observational study of dove hunters at two wildlife management areas in Virginia. The purpose of this phase was to compare hunting behavior of hunter education graduates versus those hunters who had not taken the course. The 112 hunters observed during the 1981 and 1982 season were later …
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A political ecology of community-based forest and wildlife management in Tanzania: politics, power and governance
… place within Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Tanzania. I draw on a political ecology approach in an investigation of the politics of struggles over natural resources, their management and the benefits that can be derived from this. I bring together theories of policy …