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.