Careers in Wildlife Management

A key job of wildlife managers is to ensure that large enough populations of species exist to allow for a species' continued survival.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Wildlife, by definition, are undomesticated, free-ranging terrestrial vertebrates.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which is not a method of wildlife management?

• setting game limits

• building and maintaining habitat

• growing more invasive species

• public education

__________ involves the use of human activity to ensure that species of wildlife remain at healthy population levels.

• Passive management

• Active management

________ is managing a habitat to maximize overall biodiversity.

• species richness approach

• featured-species approach

• passive management

• active management

Wildlife managers have many methods of determining the population of a species; complete counts are one of them. These are the specific complete counting actions:

• animal and plant tissues are collected

• calls, tracks, nests

• representative counting

• visual and/or aerial surveys, counting actual animals

Wildlife managers have many methods of determining the population of a species; incomplete counts are one of them. These are the specific incomplete counting actions:

• animal and plant tissues are collected

• calls, tracks, nests

• representative counting

• visual and/or aerial surveys, counting actual animals

Wildlife managers have many methods of determining the population of a species; indirect counts are one of them. These are the specific indirect counting actions:

• animal and plant tissues are collected

• calls, tracks, nests

• representative counting

• visual and/or aerial surveys, counting actual animals

Wildlife managers have many methods of determining the population of a species; DNA testing is one of them. These are the DNA testing counting actions:

• animal and plant tissues are collected

• calls, tracks, nests

• representative counting

• visual and/or aerial surveys, counting actual animals

_________ is the maximum number of individuals a specific habitat can support for a specific species.

• Carrying Capacity

• Keystone Species

• Active Counts

• Domestication