Forest Program Specialist (Silviculture) Pennsylvania Game Commission Howard, Pennsylvania, United States
What are the marks of a wildlife-centric approach to managing forests? Hear examples of how the Pennsylvania Game Commission, a state agency with a 1.5-million-acre land base, experiments with silvicultural norms to improve habitat.
Learning Objectives:
Identify some key principles of managing for better wildlife habitat at the landscape and stand levels
Understand how professional foresters managing for wildlife habitat might do things differently than those less singularly focused on this objective
Gain a greater appreciation for the centrality and necessity of silviculture in wildlife habitat improvements
