3.3 FEATURED-SPECIES MANAGEMENT
Featured habitats and species are those particularly important ecologically for introduction,
restoration, or research. Management of such species can involve manipulating wildlife habitat, creating
“artificial niches” (e.g., platforms, nesting boxes) within an appropriate habitat, or maintaining suitable
habitat already present. Features of the habitat that might limit the species’ use of that habitat can be
restructured or enhanced so that conditions favor the species. This method is applicable to game,
nongame, and sensitive wildlife species. The long-term goals of featured species management are to
restore, reintroduce, or study species.
Four steps are involved in establishing the featured species/habitats program: (1) selecting species
and habitats, (2) establishing habitat requirements of selected species, (3) determining management needs
to create the desired habitat, and (4) conducting follow-up studies on the survival and establishment of the
selected species and habitats. The following wildlife and associated habitat types are focal points for
featured species management on the ORR through the identified mechanisms:
• wood duck through installation, maintenance, and monitoring of nest boxes;
• four-toed salamander through inventory and habitat protection;
• grasshopper sparrow through habitat restoration and maintenance;
• bald eagle through habitat protection;
• northern bobwhite through habitat maintenance and enhancement, with a potential future goal of
translocation of the birds to other areas in the state;
• woodland bat species through inventory and habitat enhancement (forestry management practices);
• cave bat species through inventory and habitat protection;
• a yet-to-be-selected terrestrial invertebrate (e.g., lepidoptera or odonata) through inventory, habitat
restoration, maintenance, and protection; and
• forest-area-sensitive neotropical birds through the implementation of clearing restrictions on
projects that could cause habitat fragmentation.
3.3 FEATURED-SPECIES MANAGEMENT
Featured habitats and species are those particularly important ecologically for introduction,
restoration, or research. Management of such species can involve manipulating wildlife habitat, creating
“artificial niches” (e.g., platforms, nesting boxes) within an appropriate habitat, or maintaining suitable
habitat already present. Features of the habitat that might limit the species’ use of that habitat can be
restructured or enhanced so that conditions favor the species. This method is applicable to game,
nongame, and sensitive wildlife species. The long-term goals of featured species management are to
restore, reintroduce, or study species.
Four steps are involved in establishing the featured species/habitats program: (1) selecting species
and habitats, (2) establishing habitat requirements of selected species, (3) determining management needs
to create the desired habitat, and (4) conducting follow-up studies on the survival and establishment of the
selected species and habitats. The following wildlife and associated habitat types are focal points for
featured species management on the ORR through the identified mechanisms:
• wood duck through installation, maintenance, and monitoring of nest boxes;
• four-toed salamander through inventory and habitat protection;
• grasshopper sparrow through habitat restoration and maintenance;
• bald eagle through habitat protection;
• northern bobwhite through habitat maintenance and enhancement, with a potential future goal of
translocation of the birds to other areas in the state;
• woodland bat species through inventory and habitat enhancement (forestry management practices);
• cave bat species through inventory and habitat protection;
• a yet-to-be-selected terrestrial invertebrate (e.g., lepidoptera or odonata) through inventory, habitat
restoration, maintenance, and protection; and
• forest-area-sensitive neotropical birds through the implementation of clearing restrictions on
projects that could cause habitat fragmentation.
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