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179 (intermediate stand management), or implement a harvest to utilize the mature trees and/or remove the current stand of undesirable trees to start a new stand. Timber on your property: Several areas need some type of harvest to meet your objectives. This is addressed in the FSP. Fish and Wildlife i Fish and other aquatic species depend on healthy water quality and quantity. The forest management choices you make have a direct impact on both of these. Proactive and positive things landowners can do include establishing streamside management zones (SMZs),preventing or mitigating sources of sedimentation, and leaving un-mown areas around ponds. Landowners that have water bodies present on their property may contact various natural resource professionals to obtain technical assistance on improvement, aquatic maintenance, and fish stocking. Visit the following website for information on pond management and fishing opportunities: httl2://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/wild/fisheries/mgt guide/chapterl.html Forestry activities and how they relate to water quality are discussed at: http://neforestservice.gov/water quality/water qualily.htm An explanation of streamside management zones is located at: http://www.woodlandstewardseries.com/landowner-information-for-managing_ woodland/documents/Explaining StreamsideManagernentZones.pdf Wildlife has four basic requirements: food, cover, water and space. Different wildlife species require different stages of forest growth to meet these needs. For example, quail and partridge feed on seeds of annual and perennial weeds and grasses that occur in young stands of timbers, where sunlight reaches the forest floor. This is early successional habitat. Pileated woodpeckers depend on dead and rotting trees found in mature forests. This is late successional habitat. Still other wildlife prefer mid- successional habitat. Several aspects of your property determine how many species can live and thrive in your forest-plant cover, harvest operations, water resources and topography. Your property may have woodland, streams, swamps, rivers,ponds, and areas that adjoin fields, pastures, roads and other openings. Managing these "edges" of your forest is crucial to abundant populations of some wildlife species. The relationship between vegetation management and wildlife species habitat is well established. Understanding relationships is the first step in determining how your property can be managed to promote the wildlife species you want to attract. For more information on managing fish and wildlife on your forestland and ponds contact a Forest Stewardship 22