| Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic |
| Project Name: | Scarborough Marsh Wetland Reserve Project
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
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| Summary: | The 3,100-acre Scarborough Marsh Wildlife Management area, Maine's largest and most renowned salt marsh, is being restored in a 5-phased project, eliminating restrictions of natural tidal flows.
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| Website: | www.scarboroughmaine.com/marsh/ |
| Contact: | Susan Wilder
Friends of Scarborough Marsh
207-883-6050 swilder@gwi.net
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| Project Name: | Katahdin Iron Works
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
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| Summary: | The purchase of a conservation easement on a 37,000 acre property east of Moosehead Lake in Maine.
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| Website: | www.tpl.org |
| Contact: | Tom Sadler
Director of Program Development
Trust for Public Land
202-543-7552 tom.sadler@tpl.org
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| Project Name: | Trout Pond
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire
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| Summary: | The Trust for Public Land and its partners created a 2,660-acre community forest in Freedom, New Hampshire.
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| Website: | www.tpl.org |
| Contact: | Tom Sadler
Director of Program Development
Trust for Public Land
202-543-7552 tom.sadler@tpl.org
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| Project Name: | New York City Watershed Protection and Partnership Council
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
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| Summary: | Protection of a water system supplying 9 million people requires close cooperation of government and non-government stakeholders and numerous watershed programs
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| Website: | www.dos.state.ny.us/watershed/wppc.htm |
| Contact: | William C. Harding
Executive Director
New York City Watershed Protection and Partnership Council
914-734-1347 wharding@dos.state.ny.us
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| Southeastern |
| Project Name: | Neuse River Basin Cleanup Exceeds Goals
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| Location: | Southeastern: North Carolina
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| Summary: | In 1997, North Carolina adopted pollution controls in the basin. The Neuse agricultural community achieved a 42 percent nitrogen reduction, exceeding the 30 percent goal.
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| Website: | www.ncstormwater.org/worddocuments/NeuseSuccess2004.doc |
| Contact: | Chrystal Bartlett
Stormwater Awareness & Outreach Coordinator
N.C. Dept. of Environment & Natural Resources
919.715.4116 chrystal.bartlett@ncmail.net
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| Project Name: | Enid Lake
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| Location: | Southeastern: Mississippi
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| Summary: | The SWMA is a project to preserve a wetland habitat for plant, fish, and wildlife species, including endangered species, which are provided a protected environment for reproduction and feeding.
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| Website: | www.mvk.usace.army.mil/lakes/enidlake/main.php?page=mainContent |
| Contact: | Billy J. Samuels
Resource Manager
Corps of Engineers
(662) 563-4571 billy.j.samuels@mvk02.usace.army.mil
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| Project Name: | Disney Wilderness Preserve Partnership
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| Location: | Southeastern: Florida
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| Summary: | An innovative partnership to restore and protect natural wetland and upland communities affected by past drainage operations, lumbering and cattle ranching.
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| Website: | www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/florida/preserves |
| Contact: | Robert Mindick
Education and Community Outreach Program Manager
The Nature Conservancy
407-935-0002 rmindick@tnc.org
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| Midwest/Northern High Plains |
| Project Name: | Great Lakes “Coaster” Brook Trout Restoration
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
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| Summary: | Collaboration among federal and state governments, tribes, and private organizations to help bring the Coaster brook trout back to Lake Superior.
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| Website: | www.fws.gov/midwest/ashland/brook/index.html |
| Contact: | Laura Hewitt
Watershed Program Director
Trout Unlimited
608-250-3534 LHewitt@tu.org
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| Project Name: | Baraboo River Cooperative Restoration
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin
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| Summary: | Partners worked together to remove four aged, unsafe, and uneconomical dams that blocked fish movement, damaged water quality, and endangered river users on the 128 mile Baraboo River mainstem.
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| Website: | www.sandcounty.net/programs/pioneering_solutions/strategic_approach/ |
| Contact: | John W. Laub
Director, River/Floodplain Program
Sand County Foundation
(715) 588-3721 jwlaub@direcway.com
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| Project Name: | Measuring Conservation Practices
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio
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| Summary: | A GIS-based model was developed to determine the effects of best management practices for agricultural lands on erosion and sedimentation rates.
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| Website: | www.oh.nrcs.usda.gov |
| Contact: | Steve Davis
NRCS Resource Conservationist
USDA-NRCS
419-222-0614 x 108 steve.davis@oh.usda.gov
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| Project Name: | Flathead Common Ground
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
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| Summary: | FCG was formed with the intent to improve wildlife habitat and forest conditions and to simultaneously utilize economically viable timber sales as a tool to help to achieve these objectives.
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| Website: | www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/flatheadforest.html |
| Contact: | Gary Dahlgren
Flathead National Forest
(406) 758-5269 gdahlgren@fs.fed.us
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| Project Name: | Tallgrass Legacy Alliance
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas
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| Summary: | Agricultural organizations, conservation organizations and private citizens seeking balanced, community based stewardship of the Kansas Tallgrass prairies.
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| Website: | www.oznet.ksu.edu/tla/ |
| Contact: | Jeff Davidson
TLA Coordinator
Kansas State University Research and Extension
620-583-7455 jdavidso@oznet.ksu.edu
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| South-Central/South-West |
| Project Name: | Envision Utah
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Utah
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| Summary: | Envision Utah, an unparalleled public-private partnership, educates citizens about urban growth and methods for maintaining quality of life and natural beauty.
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| Website: | www.envisionutah.org |
| Contact: | Alan Matheson
Executive Director
Coalition for Utah's Future
801-303-1452 amatheson@cuf-envision.org
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| Project Name: | Cimarron Watershed Alliance
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
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| Summary: | The Alliance seeks to improve and maintain both the quality and quantity of water in the Cimarron watershed through collaborative community activities involving all stakeholders.
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| Website: | www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/cimarron.html |
| Contact: | Jim Hollis
Cimarron River Water Master
New Mexico Office of the State Engineer and the Interstate Stream Commission
(505) 376-2918 cimwater@cimarron.springercoop.com
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| Project Name: | Northwest Colorado Stewardship
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Colorado
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| Summary: | Northwest Colorado Stewardship seeks to engage a wide diversity of local interests in working together to find solutions to previously intractable natural resource management issues.
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| Website: | www.nwcos.org |
| Contact: | Jeremy Casterson
Planning and Environmental Coordinator
Bureau of Land Management
(970) 826-5071 Jeremy_Casterson@co.blm.gov
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| Project Name: | Quivira Coalition
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
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| Summary: | The Coalition fosters ecological, economic, and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship.
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| Website: | www.quiviracoalition.org |
| Contact: | Courtney White
Executive Director
Quivira Coalition
(505) 820-2544 executive@quiviracoalition.org
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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership
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| Location: | Far West: Oregon
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| Summary: | The LCREP, through development of a management plan for the lower 146 miles of the Columbia River, works to restore habitat, provide education and information and eliminate pollution.
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| Website: | www.lcrep.org/ |
| Contact: | Debrah Marriott
Executive Director
Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership
503-226-1565 Marriott.debrah@lcrep.org
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| Project Name: | Maidu Stewardship Project
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | This project seeks to demonstrate traditional Mountain Maidu forest management techniques that restore whole ecosystems and to protect culturally significant sites.
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| Website: | www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/maidustewardship.html |
| Contact: | Lorena Gorbet
Coordinator
Maidu Cultural and Development Group
(530) 284-1601 mcdg@frontiernet.net
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| Project Name: | Private landowners and conservation partners join to protect abandoned farmland
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| Location: | Far West: Nevada
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| Summary: | Conservation partners are working to find ways, both vegetative and non-vegetative, to permanently protect farmland soils from wind erosion after irrigation water is removed.
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| Website: | www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov |
| Contact: | Liz Warner
Public Affairs Specialist
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
(775) 857-8500 x 105 liz.warner@nv.usda.gov
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| National |
| Project Name: | LANDFIRE
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | LANDFIRE is a multi-organization partnership to identify and prioritize areas for, and improve coordination on, hazardous fuel reduction.
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| Website: | http://www.landfire.gov/ target=_blank>http://www.landfire.gov/ |
| Contact: | Dan Crittenden
LANDFIRE Business Lead
USDA Forest Service
202-239-9379 dcrittenden@fs.fed.us
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