Forest Management Plan Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge 2012

This Forest Management Plan is designed to achieve the following goals: 1) Manage upland forest habitats, consistent with site capability, to benefit Federal trust species and other species of conservation concern. 2) Sustain well-distributed, high quality breeding and foraging habitat for species of conservation concern. Also, where consistent with management for those refuge focal species, protect critical deer wintering areas and provide connectivity of habitat types for wide-ranging mammals.