GAME COMMISSION UNVEILS NEW HABITAT IMPROVEMENT SIGNS
Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced that visitors to the agency's more than 1.4 million acres of State Game Lands will start seeing a new crop of signs designed to educate the public about four of the primary methods of habitat improvement used to benefit wildlife.
"Each year, the agency spends more than 40 percent of its total budget on wildlife habitat improvements," Roe said. "Each of these news signs will provide a short description about one of the four primary habitat management practices being employed by agency personnel and, in most cases, when it occurred.
"For decades, the Game Commission has been conducting these types of habitat enhancements, but too often the general public doesn't readily recognize the efforts are deliberate and habitat-based. A good example is herbaceous openings, also referred to as 'food plots,' which many people believe are part of the natural landscape rather than 'man made.'"
GAME COMMISSION ADDS 'HABITAT HAPPENNINGS' TO WEBSITE
In its ongoing efforts to inform the public about work to improve wildlife habitats on State Game Lands, the Pennsylvania Game Commission website (
www.pgc.state.pa.us) now features a "Habitat Happenings" section on the homepage.
"This new web feature focuses on habitat management practices used by the Game Commission to make lands more attractive and accommodating to wildlife," said Carl G. Roe, Game Commission executive director. "Each week, agency land managers and foresters will present a new journal entry or report of their activities afield in an effort to showcase what they do for both wildlife and recreationists on State Game Lands and lands enrolled in the agency's cooperative public lands programs.
"The entries will help you appreciate the value of a dollar to wildlife managers and why lands for wildlife always need fieldwork. You'll also get a feel for what happens on state game lands when you're not there. It'll be a real eye-opener for many folks."
For more information on both of these items, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=176851