Wildlife and Your Land

The Wildlife and Your Land series is designed to offer suggestions to you, the private landowner, on how to manage your land for wildlife. Each part of the series focuses on management practices that you can apply to your land, but first, let's start by getting to know some of the basics [PDF 562KB] of wildlife management.

Contact your local Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Manager to discuss these publications and specific needs for your property.

Wildlife and Your Land
Publication Number Document Subject Information
WM-216 Calling All Wildlife [PDF 589KB] Wildlife Management Basics
WM-217 Putting Pen To Paper [PDF 434KB] Developing a Management Plan
WM-219 Getting the Help You Need [PDF 4.8MB] People and Dollars to Help Manage Your Land for Wildlife
WM-294-00 Wildlife Inventory: Overview [PDF 496KB], Inventory and Monitoring [PDF 899KB], and Wildlife Survey Sheets [PDF 465KB] How to Inventory and Monitor Wildlife on Your Land
WM-220-98 Wildlife Primer: Mammals [PDF 837KB], Birds [PDF 899KB], and Reptiles and Amphibians [PDF 527KB] Wildlife Habits and Habitat
WM-223-98 What to Plant Part 1 [PDF 1.2MB] and Part 2 [PDF 527KB] Trees, Shrubs and Vines with Wildlife Values
WM-244 To Cut Or Not To Cut [PDF 744KB] Managing Woodlands for Wildlife
WM-222 Critter Condo [PDF 620KB] Managing Dead Wood For Wildlife
WM-221 Rabbitat [PDF 589KB] Brush Piles For Wildlife
WM-226 On Edge [PDF 1.2MKB] Managing Edge for Wildlife
WM-227 Gimme Shelter [PDF 620KB] Shelterbelts and Foodplots
WM-228 Home On The Range [PDF 589KB] Restoring and Maintaining Grasslands
WM-229 Just Add Water [PDF 837KB] Restoring Shallow Wetlands
WM-225 The Wealth of Waterways [PDF 434KB] Managing Stream Corridors

The Wildlife and Your Land series won the 1997 Conservation Education Award [Exit DNR] in the Articles/Series category from The Wildlife Society.

Questions for Wildlife Management

Last Revised: Thursday May 14 2009