Reference Materials – 2017

The following references are required for the 2017 Envirothon.

1.  PA Species, Ecosystems and Biodiversity

2. Wildlife Note Series – see List A for identification and List B for specific identification of selected wildlife profiles.

3. Helping Wildlife: Working with Nature booklet

4. Envirothon Animal Tracks – see List D for Identification of Wildlife sign indicated by an asterisk *.

5. Envirothon Skull Reference Resource: compiled by PA Game Commission – see List D for Identification of Wildlife sign indicated by a diamond  ♦.

6. Deer Management –

• Aging Deer Jawbones
• Common Resource of the Commonwealth: Managing Deer for Everyone
• A Place to Call Home: Deer – Habitat Relationships
• Deer Aging Movie (viewing movie is optional)

7. Endangered and Threatened Species Information.

8. 2016-2017 Pennsylvania Digest of Hunting and Trapping regulations

• Fluorescent Orange
• Wildlife Classifications
• State Game Lands Regulations
• Wildlife Management Units (You do not need to know locations, just the reason for having units.)
• Mentored Youth Hunting Program and Youth Hunting Opportunities

9. Pennsylvania Envirothon Bird Song CD (see link on side panel)

10. Wildlife Diseases

• Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
  • Current Status – And Answers to the following Frequently Asked Questions
    • What is CWD?
    • What animals get infected with CWD?
    • What is being don’t to manage CWD in Pennsylvania?
    • Why should I stop feeding deer?
    • What are the high-risk carcass parts?
    • Why are there restrictions on moving high-risk carcass parts?
• White-nose Syndrome
  • What is it?  Where is it?
    • White-nose Syndrome – What is killing our bats?
    • WNS Occurrence Map
    • White-nose Syndrome in Pennsylvania
    • Race to Save Pennsylvania’s Bats – Video – optional resource