Wildlife%20Branch%20Mission

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Connecting Soldiers and Families with Nature....
Fort Bragg Wildlife Branch
Enjoy the Woods.
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Purpose of the Briefing

• Short Overview of Bragg Volunteer Partnerships
• Values and Intent
• Build lasting relationships among constituents
• Give users meaningful ways to contribute to
  conservation
• Accomplish resource management
• Challenges
• Keep them all pointed in the same general
  direction

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Volunteer Oversight

• Human Intelligence Levels Vary
• Applies to Government Staff as well???

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Legal Stuff

• Sign Up as Volunteers with Installation Volunteer
  program
• Simple job description
• Volunteer program instills concept of a job and
  dependability
• Workmens Comp
• Easier Installation Access
• Create / maintain group affiliations and sign
  them up as sanctioned Installation Group
• Gives additional insurance liability coverage
• Allows to meet on post
• Makes work direction much easier through group
  leader or habitat committee
• Gives staff and quick reference for volunteer
  queries rather than address each person and keep
  them employed
• Ex Wounded Warriors

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Fort Bragg WildlifeVolunteer Programs

• QDMA Quality Deer Management Association
• Military Warrior Support Foundation
• Wounded Warrior Hunts
• Youth of Deployed Soldier Hunts
• Mentoring- firearm training- hunting skills
• Disabled Hunter Blinds
• Bass Busters and Wounded Warrior
• Fishing Derbies and Classes
• Ducks Unlimited
• Wetlands Creation
• Wood Duck Boxes
• Beaver Levelors
• Eagle Scout Projects
• You name it!
• Fox Squirrel Houses
• Duck/Owl/Bird houses
• Fish Structure
• Fishing Piers/Signs/Benches
• Fort Bragg Quail Unlimited

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QDMA Quality Deer Management Association
Military Warrior Support Foundation

• QDMA /MWSF
• Wounded Warrior Hunts
• Youth of Deployed Soldier Hunts
• Mentoring- firearm training- hunting skills
• Disabled Hunter Blinds
• Food Plot Plantings

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Bragg Bass Busters Fishing 101 Wounded Warrior
Fly Fishing Classes
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Partnerships in the MakingFort Bragg and Ducks
UnlimitedWetland habitat evaluation, design, and
creation
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Beaver Pond and Impoundment Management
Fort Bragg Chapter of DUBoy Scouts Troops and
Eagle Scouts

• Water level Manipulation
• Wildlife Food Enhancement
• Road Crossing Co-existence

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Wood Duck Box Program
Fort Bragg Chapter of DUBoy Scouts Troops and
Eagle Scouts

• 160 Wood Duck Boxes installed and maintained on
  Fort Bragg.
• Many installed and maintained by Boy Scouts
• Currently maintained by Fort Bragg Chapter of
  Ducks Unlimited.

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All Sorts of Projects
Boy Scouts Troops and Eagle Scouts

• You name it!
• Fox Squirrel Houses
• Duck/Owl/Bird houses
• Fishing Piers
• Bulletin Boards/Signs
• Benches / Boardwalks

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Boy Scouts Troops and Eagle Scouts

• Even More Fish Structure

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Bragg Quail Unlimited now Bragg Quail Group /
Gang??

• COVEY KIDS DAY - SIMPLY AWESOME!

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Serious Heavy Lifting Tractor Work
Bragg Quail Unlimited now Bragg Quail Group /
Gang??
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Wildlife Opening and Brush Pile Creation
Bragg Quail Unlimited now Bragg Quail Group /
Gang??
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Bragg Quail Unlimited now Bragg Quail Group /
Gang??
Thousands of Hours
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Fort Bragg WildlifeVolunteer Programs

• Lots more photos and stories on the Bragg
  Facebook Page

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Connecting Soldiers and Families with Nature....
Enjoy the Woods.