BLACKSBURG, Va., June 12 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Across military installations that often include vast restricted-access acreage of natural landscape, protecting endangered species has become an increasingly complex task as multiple recovery plans stack up on the same habitats.
A pair of $2 million grants was awarded to projects in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, to support research to improve how military lands are managed for threatened and endangered species by looking at ways to manage the entire ecosystem, rather than devise a specific plan for each species.
Results from this research can be used to create methodology for endangered speci...