DEC recently conducted a prescribed burn in Ashland Flats Wildlife Management Area. The burn helps to create wildlife habitat for grassland bird species and control invasive plants. Ashland Flats has relatively large areas of early successional habitats, including grassland and shrub land. There are also forested areas and limestone barrens. These habitats support a diversity of early successional bird species, including short-eared owl, Henslow's sparrow, sedge wren, northern harrier, and upland sandpiper. …...more
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