What is forest conservation?

What are the methods for forest and wildlife conservation?

• I am working on a project on forest and wildlife conservation.I want to know about the different methods of forest and wildlife conservation. I know of afforestation and project tiger ...show more

• Answer:

  There are many methods for forest and wildlife conservation. They work hand in hand. Ways that you can help wildlife is by planting or managing trees for food sources. An example could be planting or managing for whitetail deer by planting oak trees for their acorns, as well as using controlled burning and reducing the basal area in order to allow sunlight to reach the forest floor for things like grasses to grow during the summer for alternative food services. You pretty much have to educate yourself for the particular species and adapt and manage the site in order to satisfy the requirements of that species. In managing forests, many do not understand that when just letting nature take its course, they allow things like disease to take its course. When the human element is introduced in any sort of way it inhibits the "natural" aspect. Diseases and insects are easily introduced by humans by merely camping in an no management area. Thus, by the no management approach a site is opened to all of the problems such as the Emerald ash borer. When widespread diseases hit it can harm the wildlife and the forest, ignoring problems like this does not conserve the areas, it only hurts them. There are healthy and smart ways to manage forests that actually help the overall health and promote wildlife habitat. Many of the forest managers who have scarred the land by thinking solely from a pocketbook frame of mind have seriously hurt the public view of forest managers. These people have seriously scarred the landscape of America and have not used wise management practices to protect it. There are ways in which to create a healthy and wildlife friendly forests while still creating monetary income using methods that minimize injury to the trees or landscape of the forest. There are also programs through the NRCS, which is a division of agriculture, that help with incentives such as the WHIP program or the CRP program that actually give people monetary incentives or cost sharing program that helps to pay for the management and implementation of tree planting and such that promote wildlife on land that would further just be dormant or dead space.