Beneficial Habitat Management Practices
- Preparing/planting food plots (where legal)
- Conducting controlled burning
- Creating brush piles
- Cutting timber
- Pruning/thinning
- Ditching
- Creating diking/levees
- Controlling nuisance plants or animals
- Controlling brush or grass mechanically
- Creating watering holes
- Enhancing soil (fertilizing and liming)
- Creating wetlands
- Restoring streams
- Creating nest boxes
Balancing Act
Habitats must be in balance in order to support wildlife. Remove a certain population of plants or animals from a community, and the community may not survive. This typically happens when urban development pushes into wildlife areas.