Increase landowner technical assistance in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee to restore and enhance more than 1,600 acres of shortleaf pine woodland and savanna habitat. Project will deploy a habitat specialist crew to implement prescribed burns and timber stand improvement treatments, remove invasive species, and plant shortleaf pine and oak seedlings, benefitting northern bobwhite, prairie warbler and other woodland and savanna-dependent species.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Cumberland Plateau-Southern Appalachians Fund
Project Title: Increasing Forest and Grassland Habitat Management with a Habitat Specialist Crew (TN)
Organization:
Pheasants Forever, Inc.
Project ID:
1904.22.074865
Description:
Award Amount:
$591419.69
Location:
Bledsoe, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Hamilton, Marion, Morgan, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Rhea, Roane, Scott, Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren, and White counties in Tennessee