One-Page Summaries

Updated 07/06/2009

Light discing enhances early successional habitat with negligible erosion
Delay hay cuttings to allow birds to successfully fledge young
Safe watering sites help bats, birds and other wildlife
Field borders: important habitat for birds in intensive agricultural lands
Hawk habitat on grazed rangelands reconfirmed at the Zumwalt Prairie
Diverse plantings in wider filter strips attractive to songbirds
Landscape surrounding grass fields important to grassland birds
Restoring longleaf pine forests with birds in mind
Survey abandoned mines for bat use before closing
Bird use found similar in warm- and cool-season grass filter strips
Decision support tools available to help plan for grassland birds
Use basic forest management to benefit bats, friends of the forest
Naturally vegetated buffers work for wildlife and water quality
Frogs and fish respond to wetlands restored with microtopography
Corridors Handbook and case study can help plan watershed scale wildlife projects
Grassland birds colonize restored CRP grasslands, return each year to breed
Buffers may need to be much wider to help nesting birds
Natural Heritage data links conservation practice benefits to rare, at-risk species
Early successional birds overwinter in restored native grasses in the Southeast
Leaflets provide information about food, cover and other habitat needs for wildlife
Amphibians and reptiles declining: habitat management guidelines available
Agricultural wetlands in the Willamette Valley offer important shorebird habitat
CRP Grasslands attract a more diverse grassland bird population
Off-stream dugout livestock watering ponds offer habitat for Topeka Shiner
More butterfly species in wide buffer strips with tall, native grasses
What bobwhites want: research results from 11 projects across the quail range
Field border size and shape make a difference for northern bobwhite
Woody cover and deferred grazing make habitat for quail in Texas High Plains
Quadruple northern bobwhite numbers with buffers that connect block habitats
More songbirds and quail with prescribed fire and strip disking in Arkansas
Burning, disking evaluated as bobwhite management in South Carolina
Spray tall fescue in the fall to stimulate native warm-season grasses for quail
Northern bobwhite quail chicks survive better in restored habitat, Arkansas study shows
Summer fire, rollerdrum chopping could double Florida rangeland quail numbers
Sculpt brush, graze rangelands in Texas Rolling Plains to benefit bobwhites
Farmers will use some, not all, practices to help quail, Missouri survey shows
Managing CRP fields increase bobwhite numbers, Illinois study shows
Fire, heavy disking, other management maintain bobwhite habitat in Tennessee
Farm Bill conservation practices improve northern bobwhite habitat
Grassed waterways are habitat for birds, snakes
Grass filter strips provide good breeding and wintering habitat for birds
Riparian areas critical for migratory birds, other wildlife in the Great Basin
Reforest near large existing forests to benefit birds
SVAP2: check small stream health with updated tool from NRCS
Make more use of bats in integrated pest management
Reduced yields at field edges can make CRP grass buffers an economic option
MARIS– a wealth of lake and stream information with a single internet click
High density, short-duration grazing good for trout as well as cattle
Wetland and grassland birds benefit from the Farmable Wetlands Program
Juvenile salmon, other fish benefit from enhanced wetlands in flood plains
Combination of CRP and rangeland may be best for lesser prairie-chickens
Crop residues offer food, cover for birds and small mammals
Native fish, amphibians use drainage channels in grass seed lands of Oregon
Ranchettes spell trouble for conservation of native species
Manage utility rights-of-way for effective wildlife habitat
Similar wildlife value found in clustered, dispersed housing developments
Burning and disking Midwestern flood plains benefit ground nesting birds
Habitat patches for grassland birds: size matters
More pheasants in landscapes with large CRP blocks, computer model predicts
 

Acknowledgements:
This report was made with assistance from current and former members of the Agricultural Wildlife Conservation Center and the former Wildlife Habitat Management Institute, as well as national NRCS biologists and the NRCS Wildlife Team.

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