Northern goshawk, Accipiter gentilis
Northern goshawk are an interior forest species that prefers older closed canopy forests. Due to mammal predation and a likely lack of viable nesting habitat, Wisconsin's goshawk population is failing to reproduce enough to sustain and grow their already low population.
HEC contends that the Chequamegon Nicolet National Forests and other Northern Wisconsin public forest lands need to allow the few existing older forest patches to mature and expand into the large blocks of Old growth that forest that once were common in this region.
Below we have REAL Audio interview clips of Bob Howe, Ph.D. Director Coffrin Environmental Center UW Green Bay, Bill Smith, Ph.D. biologist with WI DNR Natural Heritage Inventory and Tom Eardman, Ph.D. curator of the Richter Museum discussing Northern goshawk in Wisconsin. For further detailed information on Northern goshawk and another forest raptor the Wisconsin state threatened Red-Shouldered hawk download our comments on the McCaslin timber sale and other sale comments on HEC's Forest Page.
