Resource Management

    Features

  • Partners Restore Habitat for West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel

    Thanks to innovative partnerships and a variety of landscape-scale restoration projects, the Monongahela is seeing a resurgence of the red spruce ecosystem and a thriving population of the once-endangered northern flying squirrel.

  • Mower Tract Restoration Project

    The goal of the Mower Tract restoration is to re-establish native red spruce forests, increase the water storage capacity of Cheat Mountain, improve water quality in the Shavers Fork watershed, and provide wildlife corridors for vulnerable and threatened species. The project replaces nonnative conifer plantations and grasses with red spruce and other native species to create early successional forests.

  • Monongahela National Forest adopts UAS for Prescribed Burns

    In April 2021, fire managers on the Monongahela National Forest were preparing to conduct a routine prescribed burn at the 1,005-acre Ramshorn project area in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. But this day was different. This time, the plan included the use of an unmanned aerial system or UAS — more commonly called a drone — for aerial ignition.

  • Watershed Assessments

    The watershed analysis phase of planning is used to determine existing conditions and make recommendations for future projects that move the landscape towards desired conditions.