Critical Wildlife Areas Critical Wildlife Areas (CWAs) are
established by the FWC under a Florida Administration Code rule
to protect important wildlife concentrations from human
disturbance during critical periods of their life cycles, such
as nesting. Objective Based Vegetation Managment (OBVM) The Fish
and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), has lead management
responsibility for approximately 1.5 million acres on 42
Wildlife Management and Wildlife Environmental Areas (WMA/WEAs)
in Florida. FWC land managers, in cooperation with the Florida
Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI), have developed and are
implementing an objective-based vegetation management (OBVM)
approach to resource management on these Trustee-owned lands.
Habitat Restoration Projects With lead management responsibility
for 1.5 million acres in Florida, FWC staff have developed and
implemented various types of restoration projects statewide.
There are three aspects to restoration on FWC managed lands,
hydrologic restoration, ground cover rest