Measuring Success
Commission biologists create a custom management plan for each landowner enrolled in the CURE Program. Each plan outlines management techniques, goals, locations, and a timetable. Management techniques include the following:
- Disking to manage early succession habitat
- Creating brushy hedgerows and field drains
- Burning or thinning forest patches
- Herbicide applications to remove fescue
- Planting of warm-season grasses
Bachman's sparrow
Biologists and volunteers monitor quail and songbird populations. Spring and fall covey counts take place on each landowner’s property within a cooperative. Songbirds are monitored at least once a year on pre-determined sites within each cooperative. Commission biologists maintain close contact with CURE participants to monitor landowners’ participation and compliance with management plans.
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