The Sand County way takes time and commitment, but it yields lasting, meaningful, beneficial results. We are pleased to back-up this assertion with some details on specific projects Sand County has supported and to provide you with a brief look at the future.

 

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Sand County Foundation, in partnership with private forest landowners, the US Forest Service, the City of Bradford, Penn State Cooperative Extension, the Allegheny National Forest Vacation Bureau, McKean County deer hunters, camp owners, local businesses and others, has collaboratively developed a unique deer management and habitat improvement project across 75,000 acres of hardwood forests in Northcentral Pennsylvania.

• Click on this title to read a February 26, 2006 article highlighting the progress being made toward reducing the habitat impacts of white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania.  The KQDC is singled out for having strong evidence of improvement.  Scott Reitz, a wildlife biologist in Allegheny National Forest, said that as deer numbers have come down the woods have responded. Reitz said he's seeing oak and hemlock seedlings surviving outside of campgrounds for the first time in years. "Reducing deer herd helping habitat to recover" - By Bob Frye PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW OUTDOORS EDITOR
• Click on this title to read a February 11, 2005 article describing the impact of white-tailed deer on valuable non-timber forest products such as ginseng. "Biologist Says Deer Threaten Ginseng"  — By Vicki Smith, Associated Press
• A recent report sponsored by the Deer Management Forum for Audubon Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Habitat Alliance recommends the implementation of adaptive resource management (A.R.M.) as a way to better manage deer while informing public discourse regarding forest health and recreation.  Access to the report, news articles, public comments, and much more is available by clicking on the report title: "Managing White-tailed Deer in Forest Habitat From an Ecosystem Perspective (Pennsylvania Case Study)."
• Click on this title to read a Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Wall Street Journal Article "Landscape Architects: Deer are Designing the Future Look of Forests -- Abundant Whitetails Munch through the Underbrush 'Like the Serengeti Plain'" by James P. Sterba - Staff Reporter for the Wall Street Journal