Helping wildlife.

[Admin]

After seeing Tommers post on duck boxes and spending a day building nesting boxes ourselves a few weeks back, I was just wondering how many of you on here do some sort of activity to help wildlife?

Do you put out feeders, enhance habitat or forage? build nesting boxes? Participate in goose roundups and banding activities? what?

[TrappinTommer]

The job that I currently have is working for an environmental consultant and we do a lot of wildlife monitoring and habitat improvement projects (HIP's). Some of the HIP's that we are currently creating/maintaining include: Placing loon rafts for nesting in various areas where loons would be likely to use them, monitor man made spawning beds in a tributary to the St. Lawrence River, Making/maintaining common turn nesting sites, and modifying habitat for the expansion of slender bulrush, just to name a few.

[fishleclair]

Up here our Fur association always host a Marten nesting box program, I can never attend as they have it when I am at work, But next years event Ill try to get it off, If not I will donate something needed,

I also try to put all my beaver carcasses out on the trap line in spots, Place them every 200-500 yards apart along the trails, Help the Mommas get fed while they are busy tending close to home for thier young,

Ducks and Geese, I would like to help but our Duck guys is a pretty elite group! Dunno how to get into thier assoc...

[hounddog25]

count me in the habitat deal...here i do wood duck boxes,squirrel nests and food plots with much more to come.

[patricimo54]

Nothing organized.I have been wanting to transplant persimmon,sumac and wild plum along a fence line to help provide food and habitat for the wildlife.

[halfton]

Not much here except putting up birdhouses for bluebirds, tree swallows and wrens.

Got several wren boxes out. Like to hear them sitting in the trees singing. Takes me back to my younger days in the summer at my grandparents house in the country growing up.

Would like to put some wood duck boxes up. I've seen more woodies this year than I ever have.

Russ

[killemall]

Building a pond. Around here late summer and early fall are usually dry. Deer move from the hollers when the creeks dry up and head for the ridges above the rivers. All that mast sits until the fall rains. No more. Even in the small drought that ended a few weeks ago I saw all kinds of animals hitting the pond.

[Tundratrapper]

When my son was in the cub scouts we got the entire pack to make buffle head nesting boxes as a winter project and we hung 63 boxes in the area along the sloughs. (we don't have wood ducks but buffles use the same boxes). That was 10 years ago. Most of those boxes are still in use. Now outback I have boxes up every year for buffles and Goldeneyes the grandkids think it's great!
We have a lot of mallards and widgeon in the slough behind my house also. Does anyone have ideas for nest platforms or boxes for those?

[muskrat24]

Tundratrapper got the perfect setup for your mallards and such. This is a publication that is handed out by my dnr. Check out page 8 and 9

www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/9/pdf/pub419.pdf