Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program

Fish and Wildlife Service • Richard King Mellon Foundation • Shell Oil Company • American Forest Foundation Cerulean warbler BACKGROUND ABOUT NFWF The Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program was established in 2017 to improve Chartered by Congress in 1984, the quality and connectivity of forest and freshwater habitat and increase the distribution the National Fish and Wildlife and abundance. [...] • Target outreach and assistance to key forest landowners • Install 180 nest boxes and rock slabs to increase available and practitioners in order to grow the universe of willing nesting and cover habitat for hellbenders. [...] landowners and knowledgeable practitioners and lay the groundwork to take the dynamic forest block approach to PROGRAM GOAL AND OBJECTIVES scale. [...] The goals of the Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Fund • Sustain and improve habitat quality and connectivity are to: within and between eastern brook trout population • Improve the management of public and private patches. [...] forestlands in order to create blocks with a mosaic of • Increase eastern hellbender populations, and the mixed-aged forests that support a diversity of bird and abundance and diversity of native freshwater mussels.