Great Lakes Projects

Bird-Friendly Maple in the Great Lakes

Our Goals
Stabilizing declining forest bird populations by increasing the acreage of healthy forests.
What We’re Doing
We publicly recognize maple producers who are implementing best practices to improve forest habitat.

Through the Bird-Friendly Maple program, Audubon supports producers who are committed to managing their sugarbush (a forest stand from which sap is harvested to produce maple syrup) in ways that benefit nesting and migratory birds.

The majority of Eastern forest-dependent birds—whose populations have dropped by more than 25 percent in the last 50 years—inhabit privately owned land. This is where we scale our impact.

Maple producers voluntarily enroll in our program, and when they agree to implementing practices to improve habitat for birds as well as overall forest health, they earn Audubon’s public recognition.

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