AGENCY AWARDS FUNDING FOR PRIORITY WILDLIFE PROJECTS
The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today approved four projects that will study or help species of concern and manage globally-significant habitats in-state. Funded from an allocation provided by the State Wildlife Grants (SWG) Program, administered through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Federal Aid Program, the projects will cost a combined $265,000.
The SWG program focuses on endangered species prevention and ensuring that common species remain common. To be eligible for SWG appropriations from the federal government, Pennsylvania developed a "Wildlife Action Plan" that focuses on species with low and declining populations and species that are in great need of proactive conservation, by monitoring more abundant species for which Pennsylvania bears a special responsibility in their long-term conservation, and by incorporating habitat-level management rather than case-by-case, species-specific intervention.
For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=173428
