Dr. Sewall wins new funding for land management research

Dr. Sewall has received six multi-year contracts from the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to conduct land management research.  The work will be for applied research to inform land management within native forest and prairie landscapes affected by training activities of the Pennsylvania National Guard.  Central questions include understanding the impact of training activities on native ecosystems and species of conservation concern and developing strategies for the maintenance of these ecosystems and species in the context of ongoing training activities. The work will focus on Fort Indiantown Gap, an 18,000-acre area actively used for training that also encompasses native eastern deciduous forest and rare remnant Pennsylvania prairie that together harbor more than 90 species of conservation concern.