1. FOREST AND WILDLIFE YAHNER CHAP 01 WILDLIFE RESTORATION ACT IT IS MORE THAN GAME SPECIES

2. FOREST AS A RESOURCE

3. HECTARE

4. HOW MANY ACRES ARE IN A HECTARE?

5. COMPARE A FOOTBALL FIELD TO AN ACRE

6. FOREST VALUES

7. U. S. FORESTS

8. EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=2844274

10. Eastern Deciduous Forest

11. EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST

12. OWNERSHIP AND TRENDS

13. NON-COMMERCIAL FORESTLAND 29% –10% IS IN EASTERN U.S. –SINCE 1962 16% LOST TO DEVELOPMENT RESERVE TIMBERLAND 5% –PARKS AND WILDERNESS AREAS COMMERCIAL FORESTLAND 66% –EAST 95% –WEST <50%

14. OWNERSHIP AND TRENDS EAST COMMERCIAL HOLDERS FL, GA, ME, SC, GL GEORGIA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL PAPER WEYERHAEUSER PRIVATE HOLDERS MANY SMALL OWNERS, 7.8 MILLION PARCELS LESS THAN 40 ha

15. OWNERSHIP AND TRENDS TRENDS MORE AREA IS IN FOREST TODAY 47 to 87% IN NEW ENGLAND SECOND GROWTH MOST OLD GROWTH HAS BEEN HARVESTED IN THE WEST MORE PRESSURE ON PUBLIC LANDS MANY REVERE OLD GROWTH

16. WILDLIFE TODAY

17. WILDLIFE SINCE 1940s FISH BECAME RECOGNIZED SEPARATELY 1970s WILDLIFE BECAME MORE INCLUSIVE ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER THE DIRECT CONTROL OF HUMANS ARE THE EXCEPTION THE DEFINITION OF WILDLIFE HAS BECOME MORE LIBERAL

18. WILDLIFE TODAY WILDLIFE SOME DOMESTIC SPECIES HAVE ESCAPED HORSES PIGS ? GAME VS NON-GAME WILDLIFE http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfwrec.htm

19. WILDLIFE TODAY WILDLIFE VS BIODIVERSITY

20. WILDLIFE TODAY WILDLIFE IN U.S. FORESTLANDS –NATURALIZED TREE SPECIES750 –AMPHIBIAN, REPTILE, BIRD, MAMMALS 320 –INVERTEBRATES, INSECTS, ETC10 4-6 INITIAL DECOMPOSERS ACTIVE IN HUMUS AND SOIL BACTERIA AND FUNGI PLAY A ROLE IN RECYCLING NUTRIENTS

21. WILDLIFE TODAY WILDLIFETHE EDF –ANIMALS WHITE-TAILED DEER GREY SQUIRREL RUFFED GROUSE TURKEY SONGBIRDS BOX TURTLE

22. WILDLIFE TODAY WILDLIFETHE EDF 110 SPECIES OF TREES 3/4 ARE DECIDUOUS HUNDREDS OF HERBS HABITAT FOR INVERTEBRATES AND 200 VERTEBRATES 17 SPECIES OF AMPHIBIANS 23 SPECIES OF REPTILES

23. WILDLIFE TODAY WILDLIFE THE EDF –RESIDENT AND MIGRATORY BIRDS 154 SPECIES OF BIRDS –WOODPECKERS TRUNK, LIMB –WARBLER/VIREO SM BR, LVS –FLYCATCHER OPEN AREAS –THRUSH GROUND LEVEL –HAWK PREDATOR

24. WILDLIFE TODAY WILDLIFETHE EDF 43 SPECIES OF MAMMALS MOST ARE RODENTS; MICE, VOLE, SQUIRREL INSECTIVORES - GROUNDSHREW, MOLE - CANOPYBAT LARGER MAMMALS - SKUNK, RACOON, RED/GREY FOX, WHITE-TAILED DEER, BLACK BEAR

25. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT 1933 WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT BEGAN WITH LEOPOLD'S BOOK, GAME MANAGEMENT 1937 FEDERAL AID WAS AVAILABLE TO STATES WITH THE WILDLIFE RESTORATION ACT

26. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST –THE FIELD SPECIALIST –A MANAGER, RESEARCHER IT IS MORE THAN GAME SPECIES –POPULATIONS –HABITAT –PEOPLE –EDUCATION