Working Lands

From developing partnerships and demonstration sites to providing training opportunities and technical habitat management assistance, Putting Working Lands to Work for Birds and People is providing landowners and land managers with the tools to enhance properties in cost-effective ways while supporting populations of priority bird species.

Working Lands News

Audubon Endorsed Forester Ethan Tapper Teaches Us How to Love a Forest
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Audubon Endorsed Forester Ethan Tapper Teaches Us How to Love a Forest

This article is written by our colleague Sharon Bruce at Audubon New York.

Let’s Talk About the Birds and the Trees
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Let’s Talk About the Birds and the Trees

UVM Student, Coby Weintraub, shares his experience out in the field as our Forest Conservation Intern this summer.

A Loveletter to Sugarmakers
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A Loveletter to Sugarmakers

A forester, a landowner, and a biologist walk into a forest. A bird looks up and says, ‘Is this a Bird-Friendly Maple meeting?'

Forest Bird Communities
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Forest Bird Communities

Collaborative Forestry for the Birds
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Collaborative Forestry for the Birds

Youth Conservation Leadership Coordinator, Sarah Hooghuis, ventures out into the field to get a better understanding of our forestry partnerships and the youth working to improve forest health and bird habitat.

Grazing Part 2: Considerations for managing bird-friendly pastures
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Grazing Part 2: Considerations for managing bird-friendly pastures

The second article of a two-part series on grassland birds and bird-friendly pasture management. In this article are some pasture management guidelines that may be considered more bird-friendly. See the first article on grassland bird declines and the role Vermont grazing farmers can play in their survival.

Grazing Part 1: How this farming technique may benefit declining grassland birds
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Grazing Part 1: How this farming technique may benefit declining grassland birds

The first article of a two-part series on grassland birds and bird-friendly pasture management. Here we’ll explore the unlikely pairing of birds and cows, bird declines, and habitat needs. In part two, we’ll discuss some bird-friendly pasture management guidelines that can be considered.

A Sweet Occupation
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A Sweet Occupation

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