From staff reports
Volunteers with the Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) and American Woodcock Society (AWS) tackled another section of alder renewal for wildlife at Tionesta Lake on Saturday.
The project day was supported by volunteers from a local outdoor club, the northeastern Ohio Chapter of the AWS, and four RGS chapters: French Creek, Greater Pittsburgh, Neshannock and Upland Bird Hunt.
Later this spring, alder “whips” should be sprouting from the cut stumps. Alder thickets provide benefits to woodcock, ruffed grouse, warblers, rabbits, mice, voles, bobcats and fox.
In addition to the cutting, volunteers piled the cut alder into brush piles that will also benefit those same wildlife species. This new habitat should provide benefits to wildlife for 20 to 30 years.
This was the last workday, but work will commence again in winter.