Since 2017, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey has teamed up with partners from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, New Jersey Field Office, to survey the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Airfield for grassland birds during the breeding season each year. As part of a long-term monitoring project, CWF wildlife biologist Meaghan Lyon said, “the airfield has been undergoing habitat restoration to maintain native warm season grassland habitat.
“The habitat restoration efforts are nearly 70% complete, with roughly 700 acres seeded since 2017 and another 100…
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