Norm,
I plan on (finally) pursuing the WHIP program this coming Spring of 2006. There will be strategic areas of WWNG. The State biologist and my NRCS agent walked the property with me and we laid out preliminary plans.
The question: did I hear them say something like "you can mow a path thru the WWNG once or twice a year, alternating the area that is cut, but I have to wait until (June or July?) the nestlings are hatched and fledged before the first mowing"?