Native plants are often already on our local landscapes, but management can be critical to their maintenance as well as the general habitats in which they occur.
This presentation focuses on various native plants and their importance to wildlife, but also the habitat management techniques we can apply to enhance, establish, and maintain them.
Speaker
Cal DuBrock, Goddard Chair in Forestry and Environmental Resource Conservation, Penn State Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, formerly director, Bureau of Wildlife Management, Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Native plants create beautiful landscapes that provide native wildlife with the diverse habitat and food they need to survive.
The following visual guide was created for use by landowners with property enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) or other Farm Bill Conservation Programs. This publication should also be useful to any landowners managing grassland, old field and early successional habitat for wildlife.
A native plant is one which occurred within this region before settlement by Europeans. There are 2,100 native plant species known in Pennsylvania.
DCNR’s mission under the Wild Resource Conservation Act includes monitoring, classifying and conserving native wild plants.
James C. Finley Center for Private Forests
Address
416 Forest Resources BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802
- Email PrivateForests@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0401
- Fax 814-865-6275
James C. Finley Center for Private Forests
Address
416 Forest Resources BuildingUniversity Park, PA 16802
- Email PrivateForests@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0401
- Fax 814-865-6275
