FFA Wildlife Management CDE

Wild Turkey Federation Building
Edgefield, SC

The following subjects will be on the Wildlife CDE this year.

Individual

1. Written Test – 50 questions – a few questions on wetlands will be added this year.

2. The students will have to identify a maximum of 30 plants utilized by wildlife for food and cover.

TEAM

1. The students will have to use the maps in a soil survey to locate areas and determine the value of land for wildlife management.

2. The students will have to make a few antler measurements on deer racks using the Boone-Crocket scale. The whole antler will not have to be scored.

3. The students will have to age deer jawbones.

4. The students will have to age and sex turkeys.

5. The students will have to identify a maximum of 30 total wildlife tracks, fur mounted animals, pictures, equipment, traps and maybe a few live snakes. Aging and sexing of Quail.


Animal Identification – Team Activity
Identify a maximum of 30 using tracks, pictures, or mounted

Birds

American Bald Eagle
American Swallow-tailed Kite
Barn Owl
Bobwhite Quail
Canada Goose
Great Horned Owl
Mallard Duck
Mourning Dove
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-tailed Hawk
Roughed Grouse
Turkey Vulture
Wild Turkey
Wood Duck

Freshwater Fish

Bass (Large Mouth, Striped, White)
Bluegill
Carp
Catfish (Channel, Blue, Flathead)
Crappie (Black, White)
Shad


Mammals

Beaver
Black Bear
Bobcat
Cottontail Rabbit
Coyote
Eastern Spotted Skunk
Fox Squirrel
Gray Fox
Gray Squirrel
Muskrat
Nutria
Opossum
Raccoon
Red Fox
River Otter
Striped Skunk
White-tailed Deer
Wild Hog


Other

Gopher Tortoise

SC FFA Wildlife Plant ID List
Common Name Botanical Name Leaf/Stem ID Seed/Seedhead/       Mast ID
Alfalfa Medicago stiva L. X  
Austrian Winter Pea Pisum sativum L. X X
Bahiagrass Paspalum notatum fluegge X X
Beggarweed Desmodium spp. X X
Blackberry Rubus allegheniensis X X
Broom sedge Andropogan X  
Brown-top Millet Panicum ramosum X X
Buckwheat agopyrum esculentum X X
Cherry Prunus serotina X  X
Chufa Cyperus esculentus L. X X
Clover, red Trifolium pratemse L. X  
Clover, white Trifolium repens X  
Corn Zea mays X X
Crabapple Malus agustifolia X X
Cow Pea Vigna unguiculata X X
Dogwood Cornus florida X X
Eastern Gammagrass Tripascum dactloides X X
Fescue Festuca X  
Greenbriar Smilax ssp. X X
Hickory Carya X X
Honeylocust Gleditsia triacanthos X X
Honey suckle Lonicera japonica X  
Indian Grass Sorghastrum nutans X X
Lespedeza, Bi-color Lespedza bicolor X X
Lespedeza, Kobe Kummerowia striata X X
Lespedeza, Sericea lespedza sericea X X
Little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium X  
Muscadine Vitis rotundafolia X X
Oak, Sawtooth Quercus acutissma X  
Oak, Red Quercus falcata X X
Oak, Water Quercus nigra X  
Oak, White Quercus alba X X
Oats Avena sativa   X
Orchardgrass Dactylis glomerata X X
Partridge Pea Chamaecrista fasciulata X X
Persimmon Diospyros virginianis X X
Pine, Loblolly Pinus teada X X
Pine, Longleaf Pinus palustris X X
Pine, Shortleaf Pinus echinata X X
Poison Ivy Rhus radicans X  
Poison Oak Toxicodreadron diversiloba X  
Poke Berry Phytolacca americana X X
Rye Secale cereale   X
Ryegrass Lolium L.   X
Sorghum Sorghum X X
Soybean Glycine wildll X X
Sunflower Helianthus annuus X X
Wheat Triticum   X

50 multiple-choice questions from new Wildlife Management Competencies located at www.scaged.org, the textbook, Wildlife Management Science & Technology by Stutzenbaker, and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Management Guides http://www.dnr.state.sc.us/wild/wildlifemgmt.html

 

Team Activities

Score and Measure Deer Antler – using Boone-Crockett Association scale – http://www.Boone-crockett.org. whole antler will not have to be scored

 

Last Update; 10/03/2005
This page was designed by Brenda Baldwin.
Questions or comments should be sent to Billy Keels (wkeels@clemson.edu)