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Nongame management

   Direct non-game management activities aboard the Base are diverse and range from active blue bird box and purple martin house maintenance to making landscaping for wildlife recommendations on new project proposals.  Non-game species also derive secondary benefits from the various land management activities that take place aboard the Base such as managing forest openings and prescribed fire.  Other non-game species such as various amphibians and reptiles find the diverse wetland areas aboard Base a conducive place to reside.  

 Blue Birds  

    The blue bird box maintenance program provides an opportunity for volunteers and various youth groups to obtain experience with wildlife management.  A series of boxes is assigned to individual groups who will take responsibility for cleaning them, observing blue bird use, and recording hatching success.  These efforts have helped maintain and increase numbers of one of our most conspicuous songbirds.

 Purple Martins

   One of the great unexplained mysteries of the bird world is how purple martins migrate between North and South America and navigate to the same nesting area, even the same nest site, each year.  Camp Lejeune has provided nesting houses for nearly countless generations of purple martins over the last 10 years.  As part of its active non-game program, Camp Lejeune maintains a series of martin houses in various locations aboard the Base.  Tenants near the martin houses take pride in the arrival of martins in late March to early April and spend early morning hours listening to the melodious song of the purple martin while they work.

Amphibians

    The natural wetland areas aboard Camp Lejeune provide unique habitats for a variety of amphibian and reptile species.  From the smallest cricket frog to bull frog, wetland areas aboard the Base are teeming with amphibian acrobats.  A recently Headquarters Marine Corps funded project is investigating the movement patterns of amphibians from between small depression pond meadows.  The results of this study will provide useful information on amphibian dynamics and the influence of hydrologic cycles on breeding and movement behavior.  

 Reptiles

    Camp Lejeune is home to a diverse array of reptiles from the diminutive pine wood snake to the American alligator.  Whether you are in a wetland area or a dry upland site, reptiles are abundant.  Conservation education efforts emphasize the importance of reptiles in our environment and the value they have as part of functioning ecosystems.   A highlight of this effort is the recognition and identification of venomous snakes.                                                               

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