Private Landowner

Habitat Planning Assistance For
Private Forest Landowners

New York & Vermont

Our Goals:

Offer technical support to enhance private forest conservation efforts, facilitating connections to financial support and cost-share programs provided by the Natural Resource Conservation Service and the Working Lands for Wildlife partnership.

Who is eligible for working lands for wildlife funds?

Non-industrial private forest landowners or Tribes who own or rent forestland.

New York landowners of forested lands in
regions of Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, Sullivan, Dutchess,
Orange, Putnum, Weschester, Rockland, and Essex Counties.

Vermont landowners offorested lands within Franklin. Chittenden, Addison. Grand Isle, Rutland and western Lamoille Counties.

Landowner
benefits:

Photo credit: Luke Seitz / Macaulay Library

Achieve Your Wildlife
Habitat Goals

Increase Wildlife
Diversity and Abundance
On Your Property

Increase The Value of Your Timberland

Enhance The Carbon
Storage Of Your Property

Improve Hunting And
Birding Activities

Reduce Or Eradicate
Invasive Species

Technical Services

Forest Inventory & Management Planning
Silvicultural Treatment Planning & Implementation
Non-Commercial Habitat Work

RGS &AWS

The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society work to connect private landowners with opportunities for forest stewardship, aiming to enhance forest health and support wildlife species dependent on forest ecosystems.