The Young Forest Initiative offers stories and news about early successional habitat and young forest management from local and national publications and our partners.
New addition to Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge The land will help nurture at-risk and priority species Established in 2016, Great Thicket is something of an avant-garde refuge. Rather than protecting land in a single location, the Service will acquire up to 15,000 acres of shrubland and young forest habitat from willing landowners across focal areas in New York and New England.
