Wildlife Management Plan

The vegetation of this cover can be divided into seven different cover types (Figure 3 and Appendix B). The property is mainly based on farmland. About 350 ac (141 hectares) is planted at 410 ac (165 hectares) for crop production. The main four crops are soybeans, alfalfa, corn, oats. The upper layer consists of Quercus, Jugalns nigra, Ulmus americana. The shrub layer is sparsely located around the hotel and contains many of Amaranthus (Amelanchier spp.), American Scorpion (American Scorpion) and Blackberry (Rus) (Rhus typhina), Raspberry (rubus) is.

Protection of Giant Panda: Panda protection activities in China began in 1957. In 1989, the China Forest Service and the World Wildlife Fund developed a management plan for the giant panda and its habitat. It reduces human activity at the panda habitat, manages bamboo habitat, expands the panda protection system, and requires to maintain the huge panda captivity population. Today, China is forested. The government has abandoned agriculture on a steep slope and started a "food to green program" that provides food and cash to farmers who plant these areas in natural forests and grasslands. However, I do not yet know whether these new forest areas are suitable for giant pandas.

Despite the approval of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the management plan proposed by Idaho State is still controversial. This program requires 10 pairs of breeding pairs or 100 to 150 wolves in Idaho. Compared to the number of other wildlife in the province (eg 2000 - 3000 Mountain Lion, 20 000 American black bear, 100 thousand elk, hundreds of thousands of elk), environmentalist, I am afraid that too few wolves are protected under the plan. According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service Guide, Idaho wolves need to maintain more than 100 individuals in order to leave the endangered species list, maintaining a viable and autonomous population need to do it. However, there is ample evidence that larger wolves can survive in Idaho without significant impact on livestock and hunting opportunities.