The Belding Wildlife Management Area is a 282-acre parcel in Vernon that was donated by Maxwell Belding to the State of Connecticut. A 1981 Memorandum of Understanding identifies the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as the steward of the land and instructs the agency to use modern wildlife, forestry and conservation practices to maintain and improve the land. In 2002, the Belding Wildlife Management Area Charitable Support Trust was established to provide DEEP with the necessary resources to carry out the professional management, improvement and long-term maintenance of the area. A board of directors was established and remains in force to oversee the trust and review and approve ongoing activities in the management area.
Habitat loss is the biggest threat facing wildlife. Belding AMM provides a variety of habitat types, including fields, forests and wetlands. Birds, such as indigo buntings and blue-winged warblers, inhabit the edges of the field. In the coniferous forest, you can hear black-throated green warblers and red-breasted blue climbers.
Kiln birds and thrush sing from the forest floor and along the stream. Woodcocks return each spring for their courtship display, and wooden frogs gather in spring pools where their chorus can be heard on the first warm day of spring. A variety of birds migrate through Belding (AMM) along the Tankerhoosen River. The Tankerhoosen section within the Belding WMA is a class 1 wild trout management area.
Wild brown trout and stream trout thrive in the clean, fresh water of the Tankerhoosen. South of the Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the reserve trustees own Monument Mountain Reserve,. North of the WMA is a 600-acre private property, protected from development by a conservation restriction maintained by the Berkshire Natural Resources Council. Both properties also support rare species included in the state list.
Along with MassWildlife's Wildlife Management Area, most of this important natural resource site has been protected. This wooded wetland site is surrounded by mixed upland forests and is an important component of the largely contiguous central forest corridor of the Cape May Peninsula. What's left of Clint Ludlam is a dam and Clint Mill Pond, the freshwater pond in the Beaver Swamp Wildlife Management Area (AMM)? s sawmill that once manufactured wood for housing and shipbuilding. The beaver swamp (AMM) is aptly named after a beaver population that had inhabited the pond until the dam began to erode.
The site is part of the Cape May Corridor Priority Natural Heritage Macrosite (NHPM). Are the near-contiguous wetlands and adjacent upland forests of this NHPM one of the states? s most important natural areas designated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Downstream of Bolton Flats (AMM) is the 700-acre Oxbow National Wildlife Area, and to the west, across the railway line, is the former Fort Devens Military Reserve, some 5,000 acres, some of which are still used for military training, but much of which will eventually be protected for conservation. Wildlife conservation teachers Bernie Noonan, Daryl Gottier and Jean Laughman, and naturalist teacher Lynn Kochiss taught students about the wildlife and habitats of Belding AMM.
For most AMMs, their primary goal is to provide a winter area for wildlife, an area with food and shelter to help animals survive the winter months. In addition, wildfires caused by target shooting have led to additional closures and destroyed the necessary habitat for the wildlife that the areas use. The Division and its partners manage these lands and implement habitat projects to help provide food and water to maintain healthy wildlife populations. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) oversees more than 6 million acres of land established as wildlife management areas or environmental and wildlife areas.
Learn more about landscaping and wildlife with this Native Landscaping slideshow, which also provides a list of native plants. For more information on whether you can enter a Utah WMA or what you are allowed to do there, see Wildlife Recreation Access Maps. Because AMMs are primarily intended to provide food and habitat for wildlife and have not been established as multi-purpose public lands, they are not suitable for many other forms of outdoor recreation, such as off-road, mountain biking, etc. Due to excellent wildlife and habitat management, many of Florida's fishermen, hunters, wildlife watchers and boaters enjoy the wildlife management area system.
Hunting and fishing are allowed on WMA, but visitors should note that some WMA are closed during certain times of the year so that wildlife is not disturbed. Wildlife species associated with this type of disturbance dependent habitat include ill-will whips, prairie warbler and brown thrush, a species of special concern in Connecticut. Before a forest cut on a land trust property, where there are very few places for wildlife to hide and find food. In the forest, students learned about the forest succession process and how different stages of succession are important for different species of wildlife.
DEEP, in partnership with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES), introduced pest-resistant American chestnut trees to the Belding Wildlife Management Area (AMM) in Vernon last May. . .