Forestry for Wildlife
Partnerships provide important resources to support wildlife and protect habitats.
| Project Goals | |
| Forestry for Wildlife Partnership Program | Formed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Wildlife Resources Division (WRD), and corporate forest landowners to develop a formal, comprehensive, wildlife conservation partnership program. |
| Wildlife Management Areas | Georgia Power has formal agreements with South Carolina and Georgia to manage company lands as WMA's. |
| The Wildlife Habitat Council, Inc. | Plants Hatch and Vogtle are Certified Wildlife Habitats. |
| Georgia Piedmont Natural Resource Cooperative | Georgia Power is a partner; this effort benefits wildlife management and environmental stewardship on a landscape scale. |
| B.A.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsman Society) | Georgia Power has an ongoing partnership B.A.S.S. to manage its reservoirs for a productive fishery. |
| Georgia Department of Natural Resources | Georgia Power provides land for state parks at Tallulah Gorge and Sprewell Bluff. |
| Project WINGS (Wildlife Incentives for Non-Game Species) | Georgia Power is a partner with Two Rivers RC&D Council which promotes this rights-of-way management campaign designed to create new wildlife habitats beneath electrical transmission lines. |
- The Savannah River bluff near Plant Vogtle
- The Altahama River corridor
- All pure hardwood stands
- All wetland areas
- Natural areas along the Flint River (with the Georgia Natural Heritage Program)
- Persistent trillium protection - (with the states of South Carolina and Georgia)
- Bald Eagle nests
- Gopher tortoise burrows
- Osprey nesting platforms on Lake Allatoona
- Peregrine falcon release at Tallulah Gorge
- National Bluebird Society and Partners in Flight
For further information on a wildlife management area, contact the Regional DNR Office near you.
| Blanton Creek (478) 825-6354 Rich Mountain (706) 295-6041 Chauga (803) 654-1671 Rum Creek (478) 825-6354 |
McGraw Ford (706) 295-6041 Sprewell Bluff (478) 825-6354 Oconee (706) 595-4222 Tallulah Gorge (706) 535-5700 |
Conserving Forests
The Forestry for Wildlife Partnership Program (FWP) was formed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) and corporate forest landowners to conserve forests for wildlife.
Georgia Power became a partner in 1999. Our resource managers, foresters, and wildlife biologists manage approximately 82,000 acres of land. They evaluate each tract separately, blending wildlife and timber and promoting habitat diversity across the landscape.
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