AMJV Focal Landscapes Initiative
From NC Bird Conservation
Description
Our Focal Landscape Initiative strategically targest our capacity and resources to hihg-priority regions established by our partners within the Appalachian Mountain Joint Venture geography.
Focal Landscapes Initiative Handout
Objective
Our objective with this initiative is to achieve landscape-level benefits for our priority birds, demonstrated by stabilizing or increasing populations within the focal landscapes.
Goals
- Enhance the diversity and health of habitat in the landscape using a holistic approach that considers the entire system, versus individual species or habitat types, over a long time-span (e.g. 10-20+ years).
- Enhance forest health and structure – from young to old growth, from high elevation spruce to oak-hickory to open pine communities – to benefit a diversity of wildlife.
- Focus limited capacity and resources in strategic locations, working across public and private lands and enhance forest structure and species diversity.
- Improve the integration of forest restoration efforts with bird conservation objectives.
- Establish stable or increasing populations of bird species that represent the range of forest types and habitats present in the Appalachian landscape.