In 2017, the seventh year of avian monitoring
was completed within the 18,000- acre Warm Springs Mountain Restoration
Project, a collaborative restoration project spanning lands owned by The Nature
Conservancy and the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. Developed
by the Central Appalachians FLN partnership, this project is working to restore
the historical fire regime in Appalachian pine-oak forests through controlled
burns and is monitoring the landscape-scale responses of associated bird and
plant communities.
This three-page document reports highlights of the
2017 season, and includes a table summarizing overall results from the seven-year
time span, as well as photos of three noteworthy additions to the list of
species observed.
