| 1. Describe the meaning
and purposes of fish and wildlife conservation and management.
2. List and discuss at
least three major problems that continue to threaten your state's fish
and wildlife resources.
3. Describe some practical
ways in which everyone can help with the fish and wildlife effort.
4. List and describe five
major fish and wildlife management practices used by managers in your state.
5. Do ONE of the following:
a. Construct,
erect, and check regularly at least two artificial nest boxes (wood duck,
bluebird, squirrel, etc.) and keep written records for one nesting season.
b. Construct, erect, and
check regularly bird feeders and keep written records of the kinds of birds
visiting the feeders in the wintertime.
c. Design and implement
a back-yard wildlife habitat improvement project and report the results.
d. Design and construct
a wildlife blind near a game trail, waterhole, salt lick, bird feeder,
or birdbath and take good photographs or make sketches from the blind of
any combination of 10 wild birds, mammals, reptiles, or amphibians.
6. Do ONE of the following:
a. 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.
b. List the wildlife species
in your state that are classified as endangered, threatened, exotic, game
species, furbearers, or migratory game birds.
c. 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.
7. Do ONE of the following:
a. 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.
b. Conduct a creel census
on a small lake to estimate catch per unit effort.
c. Examine the stomach
contents of three species of fish and record the findings.
d. 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.
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