VERTEX Helicopters is licensed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for Aerial Wildlife and Exotic animal management. We can use our aerial expertise to be of assistance to Park Rangers, Ranchers, Farmers and Scientists in multiple ways to help them manage wildlife that inhabit and roam their lands or parks. This work includes but is not limited to game counts, capturing, tagging, surveying or recovering deer, cattle, horses, badgers, bears and wolves.

Wildlife capture with net gunning or darting enables rangers and scientists to:

• Fit collars to animals for radio tracking with Radio Telemetry
• Survey existing populations and tag and track new populations
• Immunize and treat disease
• Recover sick or injured animals for rehabilitation or research

Surveying of existing wildlife populations is essential in determining population density, sex ratios, fawn survival and age of wildlife distribution. This information can then be used to develop harvest recommendations and distribution and assess predator ranges and risk.

All pilots keep a daily flight log of operations recording times, locations, objectives, work carried out, authorizations of landowners and pilot and gunner license numbers for inspection at any time. This information is easily replicated for clients, ranchers and landowners for report analysis at the end of an established contract.

BEFORE USING A HELICOPTER TO MANAGE WILDLIFE

**IMPORTANT PLEASE READ THIS**

Before using a Helicopter to manage wildlife, which includes Capture, Deprodate or Take, Herd, Count or Photograph Wildlife; Texas Parks and Wildlife requires a Land Owner Authorization Form to be filed with their Headquarters in Austin, Texas.

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This form MUST be Completed in its Entirety and Faxed back to VERTEX Helicopters, the Holder of the Permit, to manage wildlife from an aircraft.

We must then sign and Fax it to TPWD in Austin, Once approved they fax it back with an appropriate Stamp and Designated LOA number, The approved LOA MUST be in hand BEFORE the Eradication, Count or Capture Project can begin.

VERTEX HELICOPTERS WILL NOT CAPTURE, DEPRODATE, TAKE, HERD, COUNT OR PHOTOGRAPH YOUR WILDLIFE WITH OUT AN APPROVED LOA.