Landowner Plans / Awards / Programs / Wildlife / Forest Resources

Texas A&M Forest Service offers guidence through the Forest Stewardship Program to help landowners improve the habitat for various wildlife species. Good wildlife management and good forest management often go hand in hand. The first step is to discuss the goals you have for your property with a Texas A&M Forest Service Forester or other Professional Forester.

• Streamside Management Zones not only help protect water quality, but also provide excellent habitat for many wildlife species.
• Windbreaks are trees and shurbs systematically planted adjacent to fields, homesteads, or feedlots as a barrier to reduce or redirect the wind. Overall, windbreaks enhance aesthetics, increase land value reduce soil erosion, protect buildings and/or equipment and establish wildlife habitat.
• Supplemental food plots provide a highly nutritious food source that can be beneficial to many species of wildlife.
• Texas A&M Forest Service seedling nursery offers specifically combined varieties of seedlings packaged together for landowners wishing to attract various types of wildlife to their property. For more information, please visit our seedling store West Texas Nursery Packages
• Texas Wildscapes is a habitat restoration and conservation plan for rural and urban areas. It enables Texans to contribute to wildlife conservation by developing wildlife habitats where they live, work and play. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is an excellent source of information for wildlife habitat managment, as well as, specific questions about wildlife.

Below are a few links with information on Wildlife Management topics. Wildlife-related Forest Management Information Sheets are also available which can be printed or emailed.