What Is Wildlife Management and Why Is It Needed?
Florida State forests that are managed by the Florida Division of Forestry (DOF), along with other conservation areas, provide homes for wildlife, spawning grounds for some of our most valuable fisheries and buffers against flood damage. Also, as the main source for our drinking water and outlets for recreation and solitude, forests are refreshing and nourishing for the human soul. Forests and wildlife are linked together since many wildlife species are directly dependent upon the forest. Stated as a basic ecological concept, we can say that habitat varies in time and space, and as habitat changes, or is changed, so do the species of wildlife and their abundance. Wildlife is a term that does not enjoy a precise or a universally accepted definition. The term implies all things that are living outside direct human control and therefore includes those plants and animals that are not cultivated or domesticated. In its fullest meaning, wildlife encompasses insects and fungi, frogs and wild
