INVENTORIES AND SURVEYS: Baseline surveys help to 
determine management strategies for wildlife 
habitat ... details are ahead on Passport to Texas ... 

Passport to Texas with support from the WSFR Program

Not all surveys are conducted over the telephone in the 
middle of your dinner hour. Baseline surveys conducted by 
wildlife biologists take place at wildlife management 
areas, over time.

13 - We conduct baseline inventories and surveys on the wildlife 
management areas, first of all so that we can understand and have 
a catalog of the different types of vegetation that grow there, the 
different types of animals that grow there, and what the habitat 
are that help support those animals. 

Dennis Gissell is facilities coordinator for the state's 49 
Wildlife Management areas, or WMA's. 

10 -- After we do the baseline inventory we do regular follow-up 
monitoring of those populations to determine how they're doing. 
And compare that to habitat conditions and what we can do to 
help make it better.

After the data's collected and analyzed, management 
recommendations for the WMA's are established and 
implemented. This type of active stewardship may include 
hunting to improve conditions.

14 -- Hunting provides a valuable tool in terms of population 
control for different wildlife species. Various game species can 
produce to the extent that their populations exceed the capacity 
of the habitat to support them. And so that's why hunting is an 
important component.

That's our show ... funded by the Wildlife Restoration 
Program ... helping to fund the operations and management 
of more than 49 wildlife management areas.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... Cecilia Nasti




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