U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Lake Champlain Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Office
Conserving the Nature of America

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Migratory birds like the golden-winged warbler benefit from early successional habitat management.
Credit: Walt Ford, USFWS
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Superbly camouflaged, the brown-mottled American woodcock lives in young forests and shrubby old fields across eastern North America
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Second year growth in an early successional patch of forest provides important feeding and breeding habitat for many birds,
pollinators and wildlife
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Excavation work to improve early successional habitat
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Young Forest Management

 

Throughout the northeast forested habitats are maturing. Many migratory bird species and rare/declining species are dependent on the early successional stages of the northern forest to complete their life history. Through the development of forest management plans and the careful selection of appropriate sites early successional management can provide critical habitat while increasing forest diversity. Early successional management utilizes a variety mechanical and manual vegetative manipulation to set back forest succession.

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Chris Smith
Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Office
11 Lincoln Street
Essex Junction, VT 05452-3151
Office: (802) 662-5303
Cell: 802-735-5784
chris_e_smith@fws.gov

 

 

Last updated: June 26, 2017
    Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office
    11 Lincoln Street
    Essex Junction, VT 05452-3151
    (802) 662-5300
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