US Forest Service Announces Middle Mountain Savannah work to resume

West Virginia State Chapter National Wild Turkey Federation

United States Forest Service Announces Middle Mountain Savannah work to

resume

There was more good news from the NWTF Convention this week for West Virginia hunters. After

a delay of eight months the Middle Mountain Savannah Projects are ready to roll in 2010. The work

should begin on Middle Mountain this year after a pause that was instituted because of a mistaken

There was more good news from the NWTF Convention this week for West Virginia hunters. After

listing

listing of what the areas management prescription was. Washington, D.C. has ironed out the

mistake

and

the project is now a go. This project will be extremely beneficial for wild turkey poults

and the project is now a go. This project will be extremely beneficial for wild turkey poults on

and the

and

project is now a go. This project will be extremely beneficial for wild turkey poults on

southern

Middle Mountain. Habitat improvements planned include over 400 acres of prescribed

southern

Middle Mountain. Habitat improvements planned include over 400 acres of prescribed

burns, nearly

40 acres of savannah work, stump removal, skid trails seeded to linear wildlife

openings, and a new

waterhole. These savannahs will create high quality habitat for the turkey and

their poults to forage in.

Thinned areas will also benefit bats, migratory song birds like the Cerulean

Warbler, white tail deer

and of course wild turkey. Savannahs create insect habitat beneficial to

turkey poults which need a

high protein diet in their first month and areas conducive to seed

propagation from grasses that will

benefit all turkeys in the fall and winter. More details will be

forthcoming in the next few months.