{"id":2605,"date":"2014-11-04T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.sdps-bbs.com\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:22:16","slug":"new-publication-wildlife-habitat-education-program-teaching-and-learning-wildlife-management-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/new-publication-wildlife-habitat-education-program-teaching-and-learning-wildlife-management-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication! Wildlife Habitat Education Program &#8211; Teaching and Learning Wildlife Management Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ExternalClass965F29D1C7D14BA8B9ED5460E928CD1A\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ms-rtePosition-2 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FNR-494Publication.jpg\" alt=\"Publication\" \/>The Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP) helps students understand wildlife ecology and management practices. In addition, students gain skills in teamwork, oral and written communication, decision-making and leadership. The WHEP career development event includes three activities:\u00a0Wildlife Challenge, Wildlife Management Practices and Wildlife Management Plan. Each activity has an important role in teaching about the management of wildlife populations. The instructions in this publication can help leaders teach students to evaluate habitat for Wildlife Management Practices (WMPs).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wildlife Habitat Education Program - Teaching and Learning Wildlife Management Practices\" href=\"https:\/\/mdc.itap.purdue.edu\/item.asp?Item_Number=FNR-494-W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife Habitat Education Program &#8211; Teaching and Learning Wildlife Management Practices <\/a>is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/mdc.itap.purdue.edu\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Education Store <\/a>today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP) \" href=\"https:\/\/whep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife Habitat Education Program<\/a> (WHEP)<br \/>\n<a title=\"Developing a Wildlife Habitat Management Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-617-w.html#:~:text=Many%20landowners%20are%20interested%20in%20enhancing%20their%20property,made%20available%20after%20the%20order%20is%20fully%20processed.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Template for Your Wildlife Habitat Management Plan<\/a>, The Education Store<br \/>\n<a title=\"Managing Forest &amp; Wildlife Resources: An Integrated Approach\" href=\"https:\/\/mdc.itap.purdue.edu\/item.asp?Item_Number=FNR-125-W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Managing Forest and\u00a0Wildlife Resources: An Integrated Approach<\/a>, The Education Store<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-494-w.html\">Teaching and Learning Wildlife Management Practices<\/a>, The Education Store<br \/>\n<a title=\"Indiana State's Wildlife Action Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/dnr\/fishwild\/7580.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana&#8217;s State Wildlife Action Plan<\/a>, Indiana DNR<\/p>\n<p>Brian MacGowan, Extension\u00a0Wildlife Specialist<br \/>\nDepartment of Forestry and Natural Resources<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP) helps students understand wildlife ecology and management practices. In addition, students gain skills in teamwork, oral and written communication, decision-making and leadership. The WHEP career development event includes three activities:\u00a0Wildlife Challenge, Wildlife Management Practices and Wildlife Management Plan. Each activity has an important role in teaching about the management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45,54],"tags":[62,63,72],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gotnatureforkids","category-howto","category-wildlife","tag-got-nature-for-kids","tag-how-to","tag-wildlife","audience-for-enthusiasts","audience-for-homeowners","audience-for-landowners","audience-for-professionals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33555,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/33555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}