Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Wildlife Management:

Animals in park:
-Birds, Squirrels, Rabbits, Ducks, Muskrats, Fish, Deer, Turkey, Batts, Coyote, Fox, Raccoons, and mink are common animals in VanRaalte Farm Park.


Insects in park: 
-Flys, Mosquitoes, Beetles, Butterflys, Worms, Bees, and Moths Are most common insects in this park. 

Invasive species:
-This park does have an invasive species that came in not to long ago it is an insect called the bark beetle. The bark beetle is known for its name it burrows into the bark of trees and feeds off of them eventually killing the tree. The cow bird is also and invasive species that has come into this park. Cow birds will steel nests from other birds and lay their eggs in them. 

Regulation:
-In this park it would not be a good Idea to bring other species into the park to help regulate it, because the animals in this park do the regulating already. There is like a huge food cycle that keeps things regulated here. The bugs eat dead things, birds and other smaller rodents, and fish eat the bugs, the fox, coyote, and mink will eat other animals like the muskrats, deer, turkey, rabbits, squirrels, and other small rodents keeping the populations at a steady, and stable rait. 
-Hunting also plays a big role around this area even tho you can not hunt in this park those animals travel and get hunted by naboring properties which also helps keep things regulated and not out of controle in this park.
http://www.bigelow.org/edhab/fitting_algae.html

3 comments:

  1. Lots of pictures, good food line thing.

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  2. I llike the little foot print picture and i really like your graph thing, but I don't really understand the graph but then again I am a little slow sometimes.

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