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is a 4-H Program designed to Promote Youth development in the Areas
of:
- interpersonal/social skills
- Leadership
- Decision making
- Oral and written communication
- Team work

is also designed to Increase youth understanding of wildlife ecology
by teaching the fundamentals of wildlife management through habitat
valuation and manipulation.
There are Five Activities in WHEP that revolve around habitat management:
- Judging wildlife foods
- Judging aerial photographs
- Habitat recommendation practices
- Rural wildlife management plan
- Urban wildlife management plan
Habitat Regions
- The United States is separated into fourteen different "Regions"
in WHEP.
- These "Regions" were created by identifying those
areas having similar climate, vegetation and wildlife.
- Six out of those fourteen occur in Texas.
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