Wildlife conservation Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

ENWC 201 Final Exam Review Questions And Answers Definition of Wildlife - ANS all non-domesticated plants, animals and organisms Definition of conservation - ANS act of conserving or saving something Gifford Pinchot and his contribution to wildlife conservation - ANS Founder of US forest service. Studied in Europe *forest as a resource and conservation. Coined the term conservation Definition of Ecology - ANS the study of organisms interacting within their enviro...

In 1804, ____ began a journey into America's heartland; a journey which led to fame - Answer-lewis and clark _______ families composed more than 90 percent of the population in colonial America - Answer-rural _____ colonists cleared forests to build towns and roads, which destroyed wildlife habitat - Answer-English Clearing land was beneficial to white-tailed deer and _____ to passenger pigeons. - Answer-detrimental _____ was used as a method to defeat the Native Americans. - Answer...

The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, which retires cropland and restores the land to grasslands, is part of what piece of legislation? - The Farm Bill Select all waterfowl which generally migrate in family units. - Geese Swans The Migratory Bird Conservation Act created the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission in 1929 in order to evaluate and approve federal land for wildlife refuges using federal funding. This commission is made up of the secretary of agriculture, two senato...

William Henry - Answer-- 1891 - set aside 1.2 million acres Gifford Pinchot - Answer-"greatest good for the greatest number in long run" - Friends with Theadore Roosevelt - Appointed first chief forester of U.S. Forest Service Teddy Roosevelt - Answer-- created U.S. park service - 5 national parks - 18 monuments - 51 bird sanctuaries - 100 M acres of national forest John Muir - Answer-- Yosemite - petrified forest - grand canyon - sierra club Aldo Leopold - Answer-- The Land Ethi...

Wildlife - ANSWER Free-living, wild animals (excluding feral and exotic species) that are of major significance to humans in their natural environments conservation - ANSWER planned management of natural resources to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect ecology - ANSWER defined by Ernst Haekel as "home study"; the study of interactions between organisms and their environment active management - ANSWER directly impacts populations of wildlife through methods like translocation...

Conservation Incentives Programs - Answer-Public - NAWCA - US Farm Bill programs Private - NGOs - Leases Incentives - Answer-a payment or concession to stimulate greater output or investment Conservation Easement - Answer-legal agreement between landowner and a land trust or government agency that permanently limits uses of land in order to protect its conservation values Natural Resources Conservation Service - Answer-- the branch of the USDA that purchases easements from landowners f...

Before man 11,500 B.P. - Answer-giant animals, megafuana, land bridge between Alaska and Russia Pre-European Era - Answer-the clovis (hunter gatherers), overkill of megafuana, native americans (agriculture), columbus in 1492 Era of Abundance - Answer-Europeans show up to North America, abundance of wildlife & natural resoucres Era of Overexploitation - Answer-network of railroads and telegraphs, animals were becoming scarce, demand for animals products increased, some species went extinct...

Missouri Hunters Education Questions and Answers Graded A+ The goal of hunter education programs is to ________. produce safe, knowledgeable, responsible, involved hunters Name three behaviors of a responsible hunter. -respect others and wildlife -involvement -positive attitude Name three hunting-related projects for which the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (Pittman-Robertson Act) provides funding. -Dingle-Hart Bill -Missouri Department of Conservation -Federal Aid in Wildlife Restora...

Which of the following principles was influenced by the Public Trust Doctrine established in 1842? Wildlife resources are a public property Who acquired the sporting journal Forest and Stream and used it to promote wildlife conservation? George Bird Grinnell Which of the following was the first federal law protecting wildlife? Lacey Act Select the basic goals of The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Managing fish and wildlife in order to sustain healthy populations forev...

wildlife - ANSWER includes all nondomesticated plants, animals, and other organisms; living things and especially mammals, birds, and fishes that are neither human nor domesticated; birds and mammals receive most attention conservation - ANSWER an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity; planned managment of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, destruction...