Develop detailed forest management plans to create landscape scale forest blocks in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia that create a mosaic of forest successional stages and riparian buffers that benefit multiple focal bird species including golden-winger warbler, cerulean warbler, black-throated blue warbler, wood thrush and American woodcock. Project will complete management plans for 67,000 acres in Pennsylvania and 163,000 acres in West Virginia recently acquired by Lyme Timber.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program
Project Title: Developing Long-Term Forest and Habitat Management Plans for Large Industrial Forest Blocks (PA,WV)
Organization:
Wildlife Management Institute
Project ID:
0407.18.061714
Description:
Award Amount:
$42790.06
Location:
Newly acquired Lyme Timber lands, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia