Critical
Wildlife Areas
Critical Wildlife Areas (CWAs) are established by the FWC under a
Florida Administration Code rule to protect important wildlife
concentrations from human disturbance during critical periods of
their life cycles, such as nesting.
Objective Based
Vegetation Managment (OBVM)
The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), has lead
management responsibility for approximately 1.5 million acres on 42
Wildlife Management and
Wildlife Environmental Areas (WMA/WEAs) in Florida. FWC
land managers, in cooperation with the Florida Natural Areas
Inventory (FNAI), have developed and are implementing an
objective-based vegetation management (OBVM) approach to resource
management on these Trustee-owned lands.
Habitat Restoration
Projects
With lead management responsibility for 1.5 million acres in
Florida, FWC staff have developed and implemented various types of
restoration projects statewide. There are three aspects to
restoration on FWC
managed lands, hydrologic restoration, ground cover
restoration, and exotic species control.
Landowner
Assistance and Incentives
Over half of Florida is privately owned. The land-use planning
efforts and habitat management decisions made by private landowners
today will determine the future for fish and wildlife tomorrow.
Management Plans
(WMA)
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has a
management interest in approximately 5 million acres of natural
resource land in Florida for the conservation of wildlife and
habitat.
Safe
Harbor
Florida's Safe Harbor program is a voluntary conservation incentive
plan for private landowners who want to manage their lands to
provide habitat for imperiled species.
Safe Harbor:
Red-cockaded Woodpecker Program
The goal is to conserve the federally endangered red-cockaded
woodpecker through partnerships with private landowners.
Upland Plant
Management
The Upland Plant Management Program incorporates ecosystem
management concepts involving "place-based management" that brings
together regionally diverse interests to develop flexible,
innovative strategies to address local upland invasive plant
management issues on public conservation lands in Florida.
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