The Wildlife Management Plan is a fairly formal plan made out specifically for the appraisal district to review, so it has to contain certain things. We have to perform a minimum of three practices from a list of practices, but we always do more just to be safe. The management practices we use are Habitat Control (brush cutting, planting
native seeds), Erosion Control (rock dams, brush dams, basins,
berms), Provide Supplemental Supplies of
Water (tubs, basins, pans, small garden ponds), Provide Supplemental Supplies of Food (bird feeders), and Provide
Shelters (brush piles).
I've been planting native seed mixes from Native American Seed
http://www.seedsource.com/
I have to
fence each patch because we have so many
deer. I've also been putting up fencing simply to exclude deer from some areas so native
trees and shrubs can grow back on their own.