Welcome to the Wildlife Habitat Council Members Only Pages
The Members Only pages are one of the many benefits available to you through your involvement with WHC. This online site is a great resource for contacting facilities in your area or industry for information or recommendations on reaching out to your community or supplementing your wildlife habitat program.
More great benefits of membership are WHC features stories on member accomplishments and commitments to wildlife habitat restoration and enhancement in various publications. The Registry of Certified & Internationally Accredited Corporate Wildlife Habitat Programs recognizes commendable wildlife habitat management and environmental education programs at individual sites.
This resource is for members only. As a benefit of WHC membership, we agree to only distribute this private information among paid members, and in turn ask that you do not share or sell this information to non-members. Please contact publications@wildlifehc.org for the password.
![Oldcastle Cordell American Goldfinch](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115163144im_/http://www.wildlifehc.org/ewebeditpro/items/O57F14738.jpg) The natural habitat of the Cordell Road Facility provides habitat for the American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) where flocks are spotted foraging on thistles eating the seeds. |
Callanan Industries, Inc.'s, an Oldcastle Materials company, Cordell Road Facility has been recognized by the Wildlife Habitat Council s he 2007 Rookie of the Year,which goes to one newly certified program each year, and exemplifies a superior wildlife habitat program.
The Cordell Road Facility is located in the western portion of Albany County, New York near the Albany Pine Bush Preserve, a protected inland pine barren ecosystem home to the endangered Karner blue butterfly. The property consists of approximately 67 acres, of which 30 acres remain as wetland and undeveloped woodland for wildlife habitat. The wildlife team implements a number of projects to enhance wildlife habitat in vegetative communities including the original Albany pine bush ecosystem.
A major component of the site’s wildlife habitat program is the creation and protection of isolated populations of numerous species of reptiles and amphibians. The team works with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to monitor species populations that frequent the wetlands on-site, including the spotted turtle. Also, the wildlife team maintains nest boxes around the site, which are monitored annually, to improve the habitat for eastern bluebird, New York’s official State bird, and others, including bank swallows.
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