Implement strategic, landscape-scale forest conservation to benefit forest birds on private lands in Pennsylvania through financial incentives provided by the American Forest Foundation’s Family Forest Carbon Program. Project will restore 900 acres of mature forest habitat for wood thrush, 225 acres of late sucessional forest habitat for cerulean warblers and enroll 20 landowners in habitat management on their lands that will also facilitate carbon sequestration.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program
Project Title: Implementing a Landscape-Scale Approach to Managing Private Forestlands for Birds and Resilience (PA)
Organization:
National Audubon Society, Inc.
Project ID:
0407.19.066304
Description:
Award Amount:
$183419.24
Location:
Middle-Upper Allegheny Highlands, Pennsylvania Wilds, and Laurel Highlands, Centre, Clearfield, Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter, Westmoreland, Indiana, and Fayettte counties, Pennsylvania