Conservation Tillage Helps Improve Wildlife Habitat
LEESPORT - The practice of draws, and odd area within and average of 37 bird nests per 247 A three-year field study by the HHRQ|SV9||B
leaving the residue of the latest between fields have been cleared acres compared to only four nests Indiana Department of Natural i ****^^^^^
crop over winter is helping wildlife to enlarge farming operations, for the same acreage with plowing. Resources and SCS supports this New rolltop desk, 54"
across Pennsylvania. Farm wildlife populations have Heidecker defined the ways in concept. The study on the effects of wide', 44" H, 22“ D, 9
“Conservation tillage, of which declined in these areas. which conservation tillage helps conservation tillage and cover n i u , lly tA Jjr is , h , e K d
crop residue covering the soil is an Conservation tillage, suggests wildlife: crops on small birds and mammals 286-9914 ’ ' 2 5 ‘
important part, is known for Heidecker, may be one way to help •it provides cover for some found the largest numbers in no- Nf 7 nicker iaso- isn Tn
controlling soil erosion,” said increase wildlife numbers. wildlife and makes waste grain tilled fields. Thirty-three different picker, S9M; JD 20 side
Robert Heidecker, state resource A two-year study in Illinois found available for many birds and kinds of birds including bobwhite mower, $75. Preston City,
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Conservation Service. “Research fields of standing cornstalks than .it reduces equipment travel, were found in the 21 fields in the
is showing that this practice also in fall-plowed fields. According to which means fewer nest distur- study. * 6 . Olson shredder
provides important wildlife the study, more waste grain is left bances and higher hatching rates. Heidecker adds that while spreader end ’ cate.
benefits.” in the untilled fields. The untilled Surface tillage equipment such as conservation tillage is capable of good condition. York’ Co.]
Heidecker added that fields acreage averaged 384 pounds of plows and disks not only promote improving wildlife habitat on 717-235-2032
planted by conservation tillage waste grain per acre while only 3.3 soil erosion and destroy nests, they cropland, it cannot replace the 6 yr.old standard bred
methods definitely do more for pounds per acre was left in the fall- also kill or injure flightless young habitat provided by fencerows, carriage horse with snap,
midlife habitat than the large, plowed land. and incubating adults. brushy and weedy banks, and deliver CoJaMh
clean fields used in many large A similar study in lowa showed • Adequate crop residue tends to other odd and steep areas. S. Stoltzfus, RD2 Airville,
fanning operations in recent that ground nesting birds disperse nest sites throughout the Most conservationists agree that PA 17302
years. benefitted from conservation field. conservation tillage is one of the Int. IPR cornpicker
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