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Mississippi State University Early Successional Habitat/Field Borders

Updated 05/28/2008


--quantify both the field and landscape level the effects of selected conservation practices such as field borders and filter strips.  Study years 1998-2001. 
Contact:  Ed Hackett Tel. (601) 607-3131 email:  ed.hackett@ms.usda.gov
Why: To guide NRCS field offices in the management of buffer and other early successional practices.

 

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Creating Early Successional Wildlife Habitat Through Farm Programs: An Objective-Driven Approach with Case Studies

 

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Case Study: Birdlands Plantation, Panola County, MS

 

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Map 1 Basemap illustrating planning boundary and ownership for Birdlands Plantation, Panola County, MS

 

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Map 2 Existing conditions on Birdlands Plantation at initiation of planning process.

 

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Map 3 Analysis of existing conditions on Birdlands Plantation at initiation of planning process.

 

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Map 4 Habitat resource management required to achieve desired objectives on Birdlands Plantation.

 

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Map 5 Example of specific practices and programs used to create nesting, broodrearing, and escape habitat on agricultural fields on Birdlands Plantation.

 

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Map 6 Examples of specific practices and programs used to enhance bobwhite habitat quality on Bermuda dominated idle grassland (west field) and cropland enrolled in CRP (east field).

 

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Map 7 Example of management practices used on CRP grassland to enhance bobwhite habitat on Birdlands Plantation.

 

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Map 8 Example of practices applied to CRP CP3 pine stands as part of reenrollment as CP11 on Birdlands Plantation.

 

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Map 9 Example of practices established on CRP CP1 field at time of reenrollment as CP4d on Birdlands Plantation.

 

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Map 10 Example of prescribed fire rotation established on all CRP grasslands on Birdlands Plantation.

 

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Case Study: B. Bryan Farms, West Point, MS

 

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Case Study: Hardeman County, TN



 

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Basemap of Hardeman County, TN property illustrating planning boundary and management units

Technical Leaflets

 

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Conservation Buffers:  Wildlife Benefits in Southeast Agricultural Systems (PDF, 408KB)

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Grassland Bird Response to Agricultural Field Borders (PDF, 718KB)

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Light Disking to Enhance Early Successional Wildlife Habitat in Grasslands and Old Fields:  Wildlife Benefits and Erosion Potential (Technical Note 190-32) (PDF, 2.5MB)