To
date, the Upland Program has reclaimed nearly 500 acres of abandoned
fields on various conservation lands across the state. A biological
monitoring program was started in 1999 to determine before and after
impacts of reclamation activities, to determine if early-successional
species were utilizing reclaimed areas, and to 
aid
in determining future habitat treatments. Birds are monitored using
point-count surveys, vegetation is monitored using a modified BBird
field protocol, and butterflies are monitored using a Pollard transect
count. You can find out what's going on at the project site nearest
you as well as what birds and butterflies were found in and around
the project site by clicking one of the MassWildlife districts below.
Click
on a MassWildilfe District to obtain more information on the project
sites nearest you.
