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Strategies
• Provide educational opportunities and factual information through Web pages, brochures and links to other organizations through the City of Dublin Web site.
• When resident/wildlife conflicts arise, respond promptly through e-mail, phone and mailings.
• Nature Education Coordinator will maintain statistics and licensing, upholding all state and federal laws.
Policy 17: Manmade structures benefiting wildlife will be established and maintained when feasible.
Issues
• Decrease in specific types of habitat such as vernal pools and standing snags have caused decline in beneficial wildlife such as insect-eating tree swallows and eastern bluebirds.
• Human involvement has altered landscapes, causing decline in certain species.
• Many animals have daily and seasonal migration routes.
Strategies
• Install and maintain bluebird trails within parks and green spaces.
• Use volunteers when feasible to plant, install and maintain structures such as bluebird trails.
• Maintain dead trees unless they pose threat to human traffic.
• When dead trees must be cut, vary heights so some dead standing wood remains.
• Review ecological assessments and natural features before development, allowing for natural structures such as vernal pools and standing snags to remain.
• Allow some stands of woods to remain undeveloped, without trails.
• Allow for movement of wild animals by providing or maintaining natural corridors when feasible.
Policy 18: Land management, restoration and maintenance will occur whenever feasible to promote proper/healthy ecosystems and therefore wildlife populations;
ecological assessments will be used to determine overall health of areas, along with partnerships and resources of outside organizations
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