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Wildlife Damage Control and Management  

    Wildlife damage control actions are normally taken when a threshold for acceptable damage has been attained in which initial loss, disruption, or injury could pose serious impacts to native/migratory fish and wildlife resources, government infrastructure or properties (including forested resources), or human health and safety.  The Fish and Wildlife Branch has primary responsibility for nuisance and pest wildlife species aboard Camp Lejeune in residential, industrial, and remote training area environments.

    Wildlife damage control and management actions are divided into three primary categories:  active management, habitat management, and inter-departmental coordination on nuisance and pest wildlife species management.  Current wildlife damage control/management practices are as follows: 

·       Coordinate and respond to complaints from Base Family Housing regarding nuisance wildlife pests.  Maintain accurate records of nuisance wildlife handling for annual reporting.

·       Coordinate maintenance and repair of Base buildings (houses, barracks, warehouses and office spaces) that are structurally deficient and have a history of nuisance wildlife pests.

·       Coordinate field activities for wildlife species that threaten Base infrastructure (e.g., beavers, muskrats).

·       Provide technical coordination and participate in feral cat control programs.

·       Provide information and education for Base residents and workers on wildlife, nuisance wildlife, wildlife disease vectors (ticks, small mammals) and situations where wildlife becomes both nuisance and pest. 

·       Coordinate and execute annual North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Wildlife Handling and Salvage Permits.

·       Coordinate necessary Depredation Permits.

·       Provide Command representation at quarterly Rabies Control Board Meetings. 

    At MCAS, New River, there is considerable overlap in wildlife damage control and management actions as they relate to game and non-game management programs, particularly in an airfield setting.  Routine control actions must sometimes be more intense in this environment and therefore, baseline information on wildlife populations and seasonal patterns of wildlife use are critical to the development and implementation of a coordinated BASH program.

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Environmental Management Division	Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Installations & Environment Department	Last Updated:  September 26, 2002