Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage

Canterbury

Snapper leaves the field edge ahead of the warm-season grass buffer planter.

Conservation Reserve Program Wetland

Rare Ruff at CWH wetland designed and built at Sikes property

Barnstable Hill

Prairie Warbler (left) in buffer strip. Great Horned Owl (right) keeps watch over woodlands

Barnstable Hill

Black Duck rests atop muskrat house at Barnstable Hill farm CREP wetland Barnstable Hill

The American Woodcock, And Why We Should Be Cutting More Trees – Cool Green Science

admin6 April, 20172017-04-06T18:34:26-04:00

Throughout their lives and even within a single day, American Woodcock are citizens of many habitats. By day they forage in forest, probing the soft soil with their bill in search of worms and insects. But every evening at sundown woodcock silhouettes appear in the sky as the birds commute…

Vegetation Studies in Power-line Rights-of-way (ROWs)

admin 18 December, 2014 Comments Off2015-03-18T20:20:56-04:00

Vegetation Studies in Power-line Rights-of-way (ROWs) Managing for wildlife while maintaining a safe, reliable, national electric utility power supply In the United States there are between 8 and 10 million acres of utility ROW, comprising potential unique wildlife habitat opportunities in property that is owned or accessed by electric, oil…