The Tablelands at Uihlein Farm: Grassland Bird Conservation and Recommendations

Written By Michale Glennon

Grassland Bird Conservation at Heaven Hill Farm 2024 Report to the Uihlein Foundation

Michale Glennon, Damien Thompson, and Raymond Curran

Summer of 2024 marked the 6th year of collaboration between the Uihlein Foundation and the Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute to examine how grassland and other bird species respond to management practices in hay fields on Heaven Hill and Uihlein Farm. The open characteristics of Uihlein Farm offer habitat for grassland birds, which are among the most imperiled birds on the continent, primarily as a result of long-term habitat loss and fragmentation combined with intensifying agricultural production on remaining farmlands. Our work in the past few years has aimed to document wildlife and ecological characteristics at Uihlein Farm to provide a basis for future restoration and management of those lands for grassland birds and other species. This report documents our activities at Uihlein Farm during the 2024 field season; activities at Heaven Hill are described in a companion report.

Michale Glennon

Michale Glennon serves as the Senior Research Scientist of the Paul Smith's College Adirondack Watershed Institute. She is interested in the effects of land use management on wildlife populations in the Adirondacks and is engaged in research ranging from issues of residential development to recreation ecology to climate change. She is an ecologist and previously spent 15 years as the Director of Science for the Adirondack Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. At AWI, Michale works to support and help shape the scientific research program, provide high quality research opportunities for students, and distribute and champion AWI's work in order to enhance the use of science in the management and stewardship of the natural resources of the Adirondack Park.

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