Figure 2. The study site before and after management and a comparable area managed under the same prescription with the same result.
Vegetation at Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota (A) before and (B) during the first growing season after management intended to benefit Golden-winged Warblers and associated young forest species and (C) a landscape described as managed for Golden-winged Warblers in Bald Eagle State Park in Pennsylvania (Bakermans, Ziegler & Larkin, 2015, J Larkin, ABC, pers. comm., 2015). Inset in A demonstrates the complexity in pre-management vegetation structure at our treatment study site. Image C demonstrates that management in Minnesota replicated vegetation structure of landscapes described as managed areas for Golden-winged Warblers by an ABC employee in the Appalachian region. Photos by H Streby (A and inset) and G Kramer (B and C).
