Upland Game Bird Management Account Projects

The Eldorado National Forest has engaged in a 10-year Stewardship Agreement with the National Wild Turkey Federation to help implement and administer the 2,976-acre Cleveland-Icehouse Forest Health Project. Once treated, these stands will be more resilient to disturbance and fire, with enhanced habitat quality for upland game birds.

The proposed restoration effort will improve 92 acres of upland nesting cover on the Upper Butte Basin Wildlife Area’s Llano Seco Unit. The restoration effort will develop a robust stand of dependable perennial grasses associated with the remaining historic sloughs which are inundated throughout the year.

Knoxville Wildlife Area consists of 21,000 acres dominated by oak woodlands and chaparral. The area's valley’s are infested with invasive exotic plant species including yellow star-thistle and medusa head. This project will eradicate these weeds from 60 acres at the southern boundary and replace them with native grasses.

The proposed project would renovate a guzzler on Mt. Laguna by repairing/installing a new 500 gallon system by Rainmaker Wildlife Water Guzzlers and Escape Ramps, providing a source of water during prolonged drought, which will in turn benefit upland game birds and upland game bird hunters.

The objective of this effort is to systematically visit developed water sites throughout the southern Regions of the state which may be man-made or natural springs or seeps, to ensure that they are functioning in an optimum fashion.

This project will restore a high-priority 34 acres floodplain on the Sul Norte Unit of the Sacramento River NWR by converting it from yellow star-thistle, black mustard, milk thistle, and annual rip-gut grasses to perennial grasses to benefit upland game bird species and other associated wildlife.

This project will manage weeds and improve approximately 149 acres of upland nesting and foraging habitat for pheasants and other upland wildlife species in Fields 78-80, to be planted to perennial grasses.

In this project, Santa Clarita Chapter of Valley Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation has recently undertaken a volunteer project to locate and assess all of the existing DFW guzzlers and has already located over 20 of the DFW guzzler units in the Los Angeles District, all of which are in need of repair.

This project will establish a sixty-six-acre demonstration site to test the viability of certain plant species as well as the wildlife response over a three-year period. Plantings include mixes of forbs, with some limited grasses in various combinations to simulate the various season scenarios which might be experienced under water transfer or idling programs.

This project will develop and implement a comprehensive habitat enhancement plan for roughly 50 acres including water management and establishment of perennial grasses to improve nesting, foraging, and over wintering habitat for pheasant, turkey, dove, and quail populations.