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Stuff Every Wildlife Manager Scout Should Know

Practice facts for the Fish and Wildlife Management merit badge. Not an official Scouting America credential.

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  1. What is the main goal of wildlife management?
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    Influencing wildlife, habitat, and people interactions. Wildlife management influences interactions among wildlife, habitats, and people to achieve planned results.

  2. Wildlife management tries to halt the loss of what?
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    Earth's biodiversity. A key aim of wildlife management is halting biodiversity loss using ecological principles.

  3. Which ecological idea helps managers decide how many animals a habitat can support?
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    Carrying capacity. Carrying capacity is an ecological principle managers consider when planning for wildlife populations.

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  1. What is the main goal of wildlife management?
  2. Wildlife management tries to halt the loss of what?
  3. Which ecological idea helps managers decide how many animals a habitat can support?
  4. Most wildlife biologists focus on conserving and improving what?
  5. What is gamekeeping mainly about?
  6. What did early game laws regulate?
  7. What did the Game Act 1831 establish for game birds?
  8. What is an open season?
  9. What is a closed season?
  10. What is hunting during a closed season called?
  11. Who sets hunting seasons and bag limits for waterfowl and migratory gamebirds in the U.S.?
  12. Who determines hunting seasons for state regulated game like deer?
  13. What does custodial management aim to do?
  14. Where is custodial management especially appropriate?
  15. What does manipulative management do?
  16. When is manipulative management appropriate?
  17. What do rewilding approaches emphasize?
  18. What is a keystone species?
  19. What is pest control in wildlife management?
  20. What did the Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 do?
  21. What did the Leopold Report recommend for Yellowstone's elk?
  22. What is thought to have caused elk overpopulation in Yellowstone?
  23. What happened to Yellowstone elk after culling stopped in 1968?
  24. What did the 1839 Rhode Island law do?
  25. What did Aldo Leopold call wildlife management in 1933?
  26. What did the Sea Birds Preservation Act 1869 do?
  27. What did the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 do?
  28. What does the Countryside Stewardship Scheme give farmers?
  29. What did the 1931 Animal Damage Control Act coordinate?
  30. What happened to coyotes despite large-scale killing?
  31. What is habitat fragmentation a major driver of?
  32. What do landowners with game or hunting interests tend to do more?
  33. What are cover crops planted for in game management?
  34. Which declining farmland birds use cover crops for food and refuge?
  35. What is a concern about high densities of game birds?
  36. Why do critics oppose some forms of wildlife management?
  37. What do gamekeepers in the UK claim about their work?
  38. What should you check before collecting certain species?
  39. What should you get from the land manager before taking samples?
  40. Which principles should Scouts follow on field trips and when collecting specimens?
  41. What can you build to help bluebirds or wood ducks?
  42. What can you record daily at bird feeders over two weeks?
  43. What can you design and build near a game trail or water hole?
  44. What can fish scales be used to determine?
  45. What does a creel census estimate?
  46. What should you check before releasing aquarium organisms back into the wild?
  47. What does a wildlife manager study to understand how water moves through a habitat?
  48. Which soil science helps managers understand what plants can grow in an area?
  49. What technique involves planting trees to restore wildlife habitat?
  50. What habitat technique cuts trees to encourage new growth?
  51. What technique builds hedges to provide wildlife cover? 🔒
  52. What does irrigation add to a habitat to help plants grow? 🔒
  53. What does rewilding aim to restore by reintroducing keystone species? 🔒
  54. What is one type of rewilding mentioned in the source? 🔒
  55. What might trophic rewilding help with by restoring ecosystem resilience? 🔒
  56. What should you keep while checking nest boxes for a nesting season? 🔒
  57. What can you take from a wildlife blind? 🔒
  58. What can examining fish stomach contents show? 🔒
  59. What should a freshwater aquarium include at least four species of? 🔒
  60. What can a wildlife scrapbook be divided into? 🔒
  61. How many articles on each animal group does the scrapbook option require? 🔒
  62. What can you observe and record for 25 species of wildlife? 🔒
  63. What categories can the wildlife species list include? 🔒
  64. What is one career that uses fish and wildlife skills? 🔒
  65. What should you research about a chosen wildlife career? 🔒
  66. What does gamekeeping sometimes involve to help game species? 🔒
  67. What did the Game Act 1831 require to take game lawfully? 🔒
  68. What did the 1895 National Trust manifesto promote? 🔒
  69. What did Charles Rothschild help establish in Britain? 🔒
  70. What did the Fish and Wildlife Management Act urge farmers to do? 🔒
  71. What does custodial management discourage visitors from doing? 🔒
  72. What does manipulative management alter to influence population numbers indirectly? 🔒