FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
- Describe the meaning and purposes of fish and wildlife conservation and
management.
- List and discuss at least three major problems that continue to
threaten your state's fish and wildlife resources.
- Describe some practical ways in which everyone can help with the fish
and wildlife conservation effort.
- List and describe five major fish and wildlife management practices
used by managers in your state.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Construct, erect, and check regularly at least two artificial nest
boxes (wood duck, bluebird, squirrel, etc.) and keep written records for
one nesting season.
- Construct, erect, and check regularly bird feeders and keep written
records of the kinds of birds visiting the feeders in the wintertime.
- Design and implement a back-yard wildlife habitat improvement
project and report the results.
- Design and construct a wildlife blind near a game trail, water
hole, 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.
- Do ONE of the following:
- 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.
- List the wildlife species in your state that are classified as
endangered, threatened, exotic, game species, furbearers, or migratory
game birds.
- 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, five on reptiles, and five on fish. Put each animal on a
separate sheet in alphabetical order. Include pictures whenever
possible.
- Do ONE of the following:
- 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.
- Conduct a creel census on a small lake to estimate catch per unit
effort.
- Examine the stomach contents of three species of fish and record
the findings.
- 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 of observation, discuss with your counselor the life cycles, food
chains, and management needs you have recognized.
BSA Advancement ID#: 51
Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215E, revised 2002
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