Videos and Webinars – Wildlife

Hard and Soft Mast for Wildlife (North Carolina Tree Farm Program)

Wildlife and Woodlands (Woodland Stewards On-Demand Webinar)
Managing wildlife is commonly ranked as a primary objective among landowners. This session will introduce basic wildlife management principles and concepts and provide information on habitat requirements of various wildlife that occur across the region.

Invasive Plants & Their Impact on Wildlife and Landscaping for Wildlife with Native Plants (ForestHer NC Webinar)
This presentation discusses common invasive plants of North Carolina, how they adversely impact wildlife, and some of the challenges with invasive plant control. It also introduces you to landscaping with native plants and highlight some favorite trees, shrubs, perennials, vines and grasses that benefit pollinators, birds, mammals, and other wildlife.

Identifying Birds by Sight & Sound (ForestHer NC Webinar)
This first installment features a quick background on the ForestHer NC program followed by a presentation on bird identification from Aimee Tomcho, Conservation Biologist with Audubon North Carolina.

Managing Wood and Fields for Wildlife (ForestHer NC Webinar)
This webinar consists of two presentations discussing ways landowners can manage fields and forests to benefit a variety of wildlife species. Presentation 1: Managing Your Woods for Wildlife with Deanna Noble of NC Wildlife Resources Commission. Learn how to apply different forest management techniques to enhance habitat for wildlife. Presentation 2: Managing Your Fields for Wildlife with Gabriela Garrison of NC Wildlife Resources Commission. Learn how to manage your fields to attract and support different species of wildlife.

Human Wildlife Interactions and Identifying Wildlife by Tracks, Marking, and Scat (ForestHer NC Webinar)
This webinar consists of two presentations: Human-Wildlife Interactions presented by Falyn Owens, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. Learn how to anticipate and respond confidently to a variety of close encounters with wildlife. Becky Skiba, N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will then present Wildlife Identification Skills. Learn to use the evidence wildlife leave behind, such as tracks, scat, skulls and teeth, to identify what animal has been present recently.

Conserving Wildlife Through Forest Management (NC State Extension Forestry Webinar)
Forest covers over 60% of North Carolina’s land base, and these forests provide habitat for a range of wildlife, including deer, turkey, and songbirds. However, many of the forests are not managed to maximize the number and diversity of wildlife present. Based on decades of experience as a hunter, birdwatcher, researcher, and teacher, Dr. Moorman will describe key strategies to manage forest to best conserve focal wildlife.

Forestry for Birds and Commonly Used Herbicides for Habitat Management (NC State Extension Forestry Webinar)
Managing forest habitat for birds doesn’t have to be difficult and often aligns closely with familiar forestry practices. Learn what bird species rely on forests, why their presence is a quick and dependable indicator of forest health, and how to use this information to speak with both foresters and landowners to maximize forest productivity across multiple disciplines. This webinar will also cover methods, tools, and application rates of herbicides frequently used in habitat management.

Creating and Maintaining Upland Habitat (NC State Extension Forestry Webinar)
Creating and maintaining upland habitat for wildlife is important to many landowners. This presentation will cover the habitat requirements of many upland wildlife species and how forestry practices can be used to improve their habitat. Financial and technical resources, that are available to landowners, will also be reviewed.

Bat Management
Bats are important parts of forested ecosystems but their populations are quickly declining due to a number of threats. This webinar will discuss why bats are important, some of the threats bats face, their legal status, and how this affects forest managers, and some things that forest and wildlife managers can do to help conserve bats.

Pollinator Conservation in Forest Lands
This webinar explores the role of pollinators in healthy farms and ecosystems and how forestland owners and forest managers can conserve and restore habitat for these essential animals. A basic overview of native bee diversity is provided along with links to additional resources for ongoing support.

Wild Turkey Woodlands: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
This webinar, presented by Donnie Buckland, the Private Lands Manager with the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF), provides information on the history of wild turkeys in the United States, wild turkey biology and management suggestions for forest landowners.

Managing Wildlife With Remote Sensing Cameras
Remote sensing cameras can be extremely useful management tools for estimating population size, fawn crop and sex ratios of white-tailed deer, monitor non-target species occurrence and use of food supplies and even help landowners formulate a battle plan in the continuing war on feral hogs! Join us to learn how to put your camera to work to do more than simply scout your wildlife!

Introduction to Monarch Biology and Conservation in the Southeast (on-demand webinar)
Learn about monarch biology basics (food requirements, other habitat factors, natural enemies, migration, etc.), their phenology (when to find them in the southeast), their status (how monarchs populations are doing) and what we know about habitats that best support them regionally. We’ll also briefly consider threats facing breeding and migrating monarchs and will review recent research on threats posed by various pesticides to monarchs.

Monarch Butterfly Recovery
The monarch migration can be saved if there is commitment to the two propositions outlined in the premise to 1) offset annual losses of habitat by planting milkweeds and nectar plants in areas from which they have been extirpated and 2) develop the capacity to plant milkweeds over large landscapes. Both projects require the development of greater capacity to restore milkweeds than exists at present.

Essential Aspects of Monarch Habitat in the Southeast (on-demand webinar)
With a focus on monarchs in the southeastern U.S., learn about the specific habitat needs of larvae and adults, including details on host and nectar plants and their ecology.

Establishment and Management of Habitat for Monarchs and Its Value for Other Wildlife (on-demand webinar)
Participants will learn some nuances of Farm Bill programs for monarch conservation, about Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Guides for monarch conservation c/o http://nrcs.usda.gov/monarchs, and considerations for seed mix design, site preparation, planting, short-term maintenance, and long-term habitat management using disturbances such as fire, grazing and mowing.

Pond Management
Join wildlife and fisheries expert Billy Higginbotham to learn more about pond management on your Tree Farm. Just in time for summer this is a great time to make sure that your pond is ready for increased plant growth and usage by your family!

Forest Management for Northern Bobwhite Quail
The loss of suitable habitat from changing land use practices – most notably more intensive agriculture, urbanization and a dramatic decline in active, purposeful forest management with the use of fire has had a crushing impact on a once iconic species… as well as numerous songbirds, pollinators and other wildlife.

Bobwhites on the Brink
This video, part of a series produced by the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative for the public tv show American Land, examines the “big picture” of the bobwhite decline in settings that once produced copious quantities of quail and no longer do – forests, row crop farming and cattle grazing. This one shows how forestry in South Carolina has changed over the decades and how public and private landowners, and public policy makers can make room for bobwhites and other grassland birds once again.

Integrative Forest Management for Wildlife and Forest Health
This webinar focuses on forest management strategies to improve wildlife habitat in forests while maintaining productivity and health.

Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
This video discusses habitat requirements and the importance of fire for this endangered species.

Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers at W.G. Jones State Forest, Conroe, Tx
This video is an introduction to the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis). These birds live in mature pine forests in southeastern United States. You will learn about habitat requirements, see inside a nest cavity and see the banding of nestlings

Identifying N.C. Snakes
This video produced by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission teaches how to identify various snakes native to North Carolina, what to do if you find a snake and many more snake-related questions and information.