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To find a range near you. More than miles of roads are open seasonally on state game lands. Seasonal openings are based on hunting seasons, road conditions and safety. To find the locations of season roads on game lands, please visit our Mapping Center. Hunters and trappers with disabilities can find additional information on the Permits for Hunters with Disabilities page. Permitted persons can access state game lands using ATVs on these designated routes.

Note: This information is in the process of being updated. Please reach out to the region directly if no routes are listed. Designated routes for snowmobile use on State Game Lands are open, provided there is sufficient snow, from the third Sunday in January through April 1.

Riders may only use snowmobiles that are registered and display valid registration decal. You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page. An Official Pennsylvania Government Website. Pennsylvania Game Commission. Buy a License. Make a Purchase. Report a Harvest. Lightly graveled log landings will provide roosting cover in late summer.

The other acres of the Woodcock Management Area consist of several reverting fields and lowland wooded areas with small openings.

The fields extend north from Back Maitland Road to a forested corridor through which Jacks Creek flows. Managers periodically mow parts of the fields to keep them functioning as woodcock singing and displaying habitat, and they remove taller trees when they begin to cast shade on the shrubs that grow thickly in the old fields.

Woodcock forage for worms in the dense shrub habitat, and they find nighttime roosting cover along the edges of mowed areas. Managers have planted alders and bigtooth aspen in the old fields. They plan to spot-spray exotic invasive shrubs with herbicides, so that native shrubs can compete successfully with the non-native invasives. Wildlife biologists will establish and run a woodcock singing ground survey route on the management area starting in spring Golden-winged warblers should breed on both the northern, lowland portion of the Woodcock Management Area and on the southern, upland part in the regrowing logged areas.

They will find feeding cover in the dense vegetation, and nesting habitat in the thickets of blackberry that have expanded on the recently logged strips.

Male warblers sing from perches in snags and den trees that were left standing during logging operations. Pennsylvania Game Commission, U. Fish and Wildlife Service, U. Woodcock population and young forest habitat management - Timberdoodle. Search form Search. Conservation Conservationists track woodcock numbers and work to expand habitat Science Researchers study the woodcock across its range Great Thicket Refuge Conservationists will create and protect habitat for woodcock on a new refuge within six northeastern states.

You Can Help! How to help woodcock and the other wild animals that use their habitat. Habitat Habitat Types Habitat types play an important role in the woodcock management plan. Learn how Want to Make Some Habitat?

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