In 2013, the Federal Aviation Administration mandated that all air carrier airports conduct Wildlife Hazard Assessments. As a result of this assessment, Dallas Love Field adopted a Wildlife Hazard Management Plan, which was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2014.

 

The goal of the Wildlife Hazard Management Plan was to minimize the risk to aviation safety, airport structures and equipment, or human health posed by populations of hazardous wildlife on and around Dallas Love Field. To accomplish this, it set out to identify hazardous wildlife and their attractants, and then conduct suitable proactive and reactive management techniques to reduce the risk.

 

Despite efforts to reduce feeding, bird strikes continue to be a problem and pose a risk to millions of passengers that fly through Dallas Love Field every year. 

The Dallas Loves Safer Skies initiative is aimed at educating the community on the risks associated with feeding birds and improving the airport’s outreach efforts to the public.

 

In 2014, Dallas Love Field along with Dallas Park and Recreation Department, installed signage around Bachman Lake Park and at parking lot entrances requesting that patrons not feed the birds. From observations by both departments' staff, individuals have continued feeding birds, creating a hazard to aircraft flying over the park. In 2018, Dallas Love Field approached the Park and Recreation board requesting a rule change that would ban feeding birds in the park.