Leopold Live: Small Acreage Management
Leopold Live! is back with Chapter Two, Episode 18 - Small Acreage Management. Leopold Live! began as a live-streaming seminar series conducted in partnership with the Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve (Bamberger) to demonstrate to natural resource students, landowners and wildlife enthusiasts the original 5 creative methods conceptualized by Aldo Leopold in the 1930s to effectively manage game and therefore conserve wildlife ecology. The series builds on “the central thesis of game management is this: game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it—axe, plow, cow, fire, and gun.”
Each month we are joined by Bamberger ranch staff and experts in the field to explore and demonstrate each of Leopold's five tools and to give viewers tangible practices that they can implement out in the field. This episode will be hosted by Bamberger ranch executive director, April Sansom, and a group of Texas hill country small acreage landowners.
Tune in here to ask questions, connect and learn about these essential tools for wildlife habitat management on your property.
Resources:
Land fragmentation in the Texas Hil Country: https://hillcountryalliance.org/our-w...
Texas Master Naturalist program: https://txmn.tamu.edu/
1-d-1 wildlife tax valuation program: https://rise.articulate.com/share/ybl...
• Leopold Live: 1-D-1 Wildlife Tax Valuation...
Scimitar horned oryx conservation on the Bamberger Ranch: https://brp-journal.blogspot.com/2008...
Chronic wasting disease: https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/...
Spotlight surveys for deer: http://wildlifehabitat.tamu.edu/mgmtp...
Bamberger Ranch landowner workshops: https://www.bambergerranch.org/worksh...
How to find your natural resources professional: https://rise.articulate.com/share/M8W...
Land Management Assistance Program (LMAP): https://txmn.org/hillcountry/lmap/
Rainwater collection for beginners: https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2020/0...
Drought tolerant plants for central Texas: https://www.hillcountrymastergardener...
Madrone trees: http://texastreeid.tamu.edu/content/T...
Supplemental food stations for wildlife: • Leopold Live: Food Stations
Supplemental water for wildlife: • Leopold Live: Supplemental Water for Wildlife
Rainwater collection systems: http://counties.agrilife.org/fayette/...
Selective brush clearing: https://agrilifelearn.tamu.edu/s/prod...
Supplemental shelter for wildlife: https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/land... A Supplemental Shelter.pdf
Bluebird boxes: • Leopold Live: Bluebird Boxes
Agrilife extension offices: https://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/co...
Texas A&M Forest Service: https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/
Robert Edmonson contact: https://tfsweb.tamu.edu/main/contactU...
Brush clearing and brush piles: • Leopold Live: Brush Clearing and Brush Piles