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Habitat Restoration
and Conservation in Texas
What is habitat?
Ask this question to 15 different people and you are likely to get 15 different answers, most
of which would describe their ideals of what "good habitat" would look like. The fact is that
"good habitat" depends upon the management goals of the ecological region or species
you are hoping to provide habitat for. The question asked, though - What is habitat? -
is a general question that requires a general definition of the word.
Webster defines habitat as "the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally
lives and grows" or "the place where something is commonly found." This really does not quite answer
the question either though, because habitat is more of a situation than it is an address. There are
four main components of wildlife habitat. Habitat must provide food, water, shelter and space for the
plants and wildlife found in that area. If all the components are present and accessible to the flora and
fauna living in an area, then it is probably good habitat. If there is sufficient "good" habitat for your
desired plants and animals to grow, survive and reproduce in your habitat, that's good habitat. Habitat
involves not only the setting where the local flora and fauna of a particular ecosystem are present,
but also the interactions between plants and animals and their environment. In other words, habitat
includes the biological, geological and physical components of the surrounding area as well as the
species that are found within the area.
Restoring, managing, and maintaining habitat may seem formidable because of the complexity of
the undertaking. The natural world has been so impacted by humans that now human interaction and
manipulation is often necessary for successful habitat restoration and maintenance of valuable
wildlife. Managing habitat is like eating an elephant - you have to take one bite at a time!
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