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Alpine Tundra

elevation and size

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above 11,000 feet

patch size = 10,000 acres

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Apline Tundra vegetation and unique characteristics

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9 rare and Colorado-endemic plants

3
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Alpine Tundra Key species

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pika, marmot, finch, Ptarmigan, elk, big horn sheep, and mountain goat

4
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Alpine Tundra Conservation Status

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Excellent condition, and has highest protection scores. Biggest threat is climate change.

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Spruce-fir

Elevation and size

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9,500 to 11,500 feet

patch size = 20,000 acres

6
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Spruce-fir vegetation

A

Englemann spruce and subalpine fir

7
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Spruce-fir

Key species

A

pine marten, lynx, red squirrel, snowshoe hair, boreal owls, elk, gray jay, and nutcracker.

8
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Spruce-fir

conservation status

A

Healthy, intact, and well protected
managed by US Forest service
biggest threat is climate change

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Pinyon Juniper

Elevation and size

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5,000 to 9,000 feet

patch size = 30,000 acres

10
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Pinyon Juniper

Vegetation

A

Pinyon pine and/or one-seed juniper

11
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Pinyon Juniper

Key species

A

bats, cottontails, woodrats, rock squirrels, deer mice, gray foxes, mule deer, and mountain line

12
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Pinyon Juniper Conservation status

A

Public and private ownership. Declined in extent and quality. Threats are urban development, recreation, invasive species, and energy development

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Shortgrass Prairie

Elevation and size

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Below 6000 feet

patch size = 50,000 acres

14
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Shortgrass Prairie

vegetation

A

shortgrass

15
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Shortgrass prairie

Key species

A

Cow, pronghorn, prairie dogs, coyotes, burrowing owl, hawk, mountain popover, longspur, long-billed curlew, and black-footed ferret

16
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Shortgrass Prairie

conservation status

A

Almost all is in private ownership

threats are renewable and non-renewable energy production, oil and gas, and expansion of urban and exurban communities.

17
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What affects biome distribution?

A

climate, temperature, and precipitation

18
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Ecosystems/ecological systems

A

combination of biotic community and abiotic components

19
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Biodiversity status

A

size, condition, landscape context,

20
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Threat status

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future and historic trends for development, population growth, and highways

21
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Protection status

A

conservation tenure, management intent, potential management effectiveness

22
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Riparian

A

vegetation habitats, or ecosystems that are associated with bodies of water or are dependent on the existence of perennial, intermittent, or ephemeral surface or subsurface water drainage

23
Q

What is in the Wildlife Manager’s toolbox

A
foundational knowledge
scientific method
techniques/populations
ecosystem management
systems thinking
spread the word
24
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Agencies

A

NPS, USFWS, USFS, TNC, CPW

25
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NPS

A

Preserve biological resources and ecosystem processes, ecosystem management

26
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USFWS

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Develop partnerships to conserve ecosystems upon which listed species depend

27
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USFS

A

Ecosystem management coordination staff

28
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TNC

A

Conservation by protect lands and waters that plants and animals need to survive

29
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CPW

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habitat restoration/healthy ecosystems and biodiversity

30
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Common components of ecosystem management

A

ecological, social/political, economic

31
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Edward Grumbine’s ecosystem management

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goals: viable populations, native ecosystem types, long time periods, enough to maintain and evolve, accommodate human use and occupancy

32
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System

A

a group of interacting, interrelated, and interdependent components that form a complex unified whole

33
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Market Hunting Era

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1850-1899
New settlers - right to tame wild lands
Myth of superabundance
Hunted Bison, passenger pigeon, cardinal parakeet

34
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Preservation Era

A

Legal protections
National parks service - John Muir
First national wildlife refuge
Theodore Roosevelt established first forest preserve
Gifford Pinchot proposed sustainable use of forests

35
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Era of Game Management

A

1930-1965 “Conservation Era”
Game management by Aldo Leopold
Great Depression, drought years, and dust bowl in the 1930s.
civilian conservation corps - planted 3 billion trees
Ding Darling
Soil conservation service (NRCS), Bureau of Land Management, the Wildlife Society

36
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Ding Darling

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appointed by FDR

reporter, cartoonist, duck stamp, biological survey (USFWS), and national wildlife federation

37
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Environmental Era

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1966-1984
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Environmentalists, Endangered species act of 1973
National Environmental policy act (1970)
Environmental Protection Agency
38
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Present Era

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1990s - Present
Conservation biology, biodiversity, animal rights, ecosystem management, human dimensions, ecosystem services, environmental justice

39
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Wildlife Management

A

the application of scientific knowledge and technical skills to protect, conserve, limit

40
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Components of wildlife management

A

biota
habitat
people

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Biota

A

what is the target species or community

42
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habitat

A

what are the necessary habitat requirements? management plan

43
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People

A

what are the human/societal values or impacts that may come into play here?

44
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Goals of wildlife management

A

increase
decrease
maintain

45
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Direct management

A

increase, decrease, maintain

46
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Indirect Management

A

habitat alteration, humans, prey manipulation

47
Q

Categories of wildlife

A

Game - harvested

Non game - not harvested

48
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Big Game

A

Deer account for most big game harvested

49
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Furbearers

A

Beavers

50
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Ecosystem Engineer

A

species that physically alter their habitat in such a way that other species and systems are altered

51
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Migratory Game birds

A

waterfowl and non-webbed migratory game birds

52
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Small Game and upland birds

A

birds and small mammals regularly hunted for sport but not classified as forbearers, waterfowl, or migratory game birds

53
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Classifications of Game

A

Big Game, Furbeareres, Migratory Game Bird, Small Game and upland birds

54
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Non Game classifications

A

Threatened and Endangered Species, watchable wildlife

55
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3 types of management approaches

A

featured species
maximize species richness
Ecosystem management

56
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Featured species

A

game or threatened/endangered species
Pros: Focuses on a few species
cons: needs of other species ignored

57
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Maximize species richness

A

number of species
Pros: Managing for many species
Cons: sometimes non-natives are included

58
Q

Ecosystem management errors

A

small scale, think of systems as closed, not understanding life history and ecology, over-simplification, failure to evaluate management impacts

59
Q

IACUC

A

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees
exist for all entities doing vertebrate research
agree with need for data, approve methods as appropriate/ethical/legal

60
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Non-invasive techniques

A

observation, hair snares (genetics and sex), track plates, scat, radar

61
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What can you determine by monitoring sound

A

species, location, behavior, estimate numbers

62
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Invasive techniques

A

Trapping, drift fence, insect sampling, netting

63
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Trapping: small-medium mammals

A
snap traps (traditional mouse traps)
Sherman live traps (mark and recapture animals)
Havahart traps (like Sherman but larger)
64
Q

Drift Fence for Herptiles

A

Funnel trap for arboreal snake

65
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Insect sampling methods

A

Pitfall traps, sweep nets, beat sheet, aspirator, D-frame, Nets

66
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Netting

A

Mist netting - birds and bats
Harp net - bats
Net guns - large birds and mammals
drop nets

67
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Mist netting

A

Birds and bats

68
Q

Harp Net

A

bats

69
Q

Net guns

A

large birds and mammals

70
Q

Marking methods

A

permanent, semi-permanent - tags, radio-telemetry, collars, tattoos, bands, toe clipping, PIT tags

71
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Bird banding

A
international protocols
Need license (master bander)
72
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PIT

A

Passive integrated transponder tags

Tracking animal movement

73
Q

What is a fishery

A

an exploited population of aquatic animals, not just fish

74
Q

How many people rely on fish to obtain protein

A

2.6 billion people

Need 200 billion pounds per year

75
Q

Ecosystem importance of fish

A

27,300 species described (half of all vertebrates)
Indicators of ecosystem health
what about non-charismatic species?

76
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Goal of fishery management

A

gather information and apply knowledge so actions can be taken to achieve management objectives

77
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Management objectives of fishery

A

Sustainable use
conservation of biodiversity
human health

78
Q

types of sampling for fish

A

passive capture, active capture, non-capture

79
Q

passive capture

A

set it and wait

80
Q

active capture

A

actively search

81
Q

non-capture

A

visual observation

82
Q

Types of passive capture

A

Gill nets
Trap (fyke) nets
Long lines, pot or catfish traps

83
Q

Trap (fyke) nets

A

Near the shore. Has to be anchored to the shoreline and a boat

84
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Types of active capture

A

seining, cast net, trawl, electro-fishing

85
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Seining

A

Purse seine
Lake and commercial
Black seine

86
Q

Trawl

A

By-catch

habitat destruction

87
Q

Electro-fishing

A

backpack, boat, bank, barge, raft

88
Q

Noncapture methods

A

Hydroacoustics (SONAR)
creel survey
snorkel/scuba
counting towers

89
Q

measurements and data we need to collect for fisheries

A

species, length, weight, movement, habitat use, age, sex, reproductive condition, health/disease, died

90
Q

Body measurements for fish

A

scale aging

Otolith (ring structures)

91
Q

Fish marking

A

Fin clipping, PIT tags, Floy tags, coded wire tags, tattoos

92
Q

Diet observation for fish

A

gastric lavage

93
Q

Fish movement

A

even small stream fish can move a mile a day

some fish migrate hundreds of miles to spawn

94
Q

Fish movement, frequency, and distance is affected by

A

species, resource availability, age

95
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Fish passage structures

A

pool and weir, vertical slot, fish elevators, rock ramp fishway, salmon cannon