| Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic |
| Project Name: | Pingree Forest Partnership
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
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| Summary: | A landscape level conservation easement created to sustain working forests while protecting forest resources for wildlife, fisheries, migratory birds, and local economies.
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| Website: | www.newenglandforestry.org/projects/pingree.asp |
| Contact: | Frank Reed
Sr. Project Specialist
New England Forestry Foundation
(802) 728-3163 phurter@sover.net
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| Project Name: | Restoration Project at Alamatong Wellfield in Morris County
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey
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| Summary: | Partners target removal of invasive Russian olive shrub on 600-acre wellfield, a primary water source for over 470,000 Morris County residents and habitat for a variety of birds and insects.
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| Website: | www.mcmua.com/Water/WaterConservationAdopttheAlamatong.htm |
| Contact: | David Smart
State Resource Conservationist
USDA-NRCS
732-537-6051 david.smart@nj.usda.gov
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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: | Data Verifies BMPs Improve Water Quality
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| Location: | Southeastern: Alabama
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| Summary: | Partners gathered data to prove that installed BMPs have a positive impact on water quality – 92% bedload sediment reduction; 75% nitrate reduction.
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| Website: | www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/99rept319/index_files/alabama.pdf |
| Contact: | Marlon Cook
Geological Survey of Alabama
205-349-2852 mccok@gsa.state.al.us
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| Project Name: | Hacienda Pellejas Endangered Species Habitat Restoration Project
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| Location: | Southeastern: Puerto Rico
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| Summary: | Through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program the landowner is restoring shade coffee and riparian buffers in his ranch for the benefit of listed species and migratory birds.
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| Website: | www.haciendapellejas.com |
| Contact: | Silmarie Padron
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Coordinator
US Fish and Wildlife Service
787-851-7297 silmarie_padron@fws.gov
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| Midwest/Northern High Plains |
| Project Name: | Dakota County Minnesota Farmland and Natural Areas Program
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
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| Summary: | This voluntary program seeks to protect 5,000-10,000 acres of priority Dakota County farmlands and natural areas over the next 10 years.
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| Website: | www.co.dakota.mn.us/planning/fnap |
| Contact: | Al Singer
FNAP Manager
Dakota County
952-891-7001 al.singer@co.dakota.mn.us
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| Project Name: | Chouteau Island Implementation
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois
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| Summary: | The Chouteau Island Implementation effort will convert a 5,500 acre island-complex, outside of St. Louis, Mo., into a passive recreational complex with extensive floodplain habitat restoration.
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| Website: | www.swircd.org/ |
| Contact: | Dave Eustis
Chouteau Island Project Manager
Southwestern Illinois RC&D, Inc.
618-566-4451 dave.eustis@rcdnet.net
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| Project Name: | Dakota Prairie/McKenzie County Grazing Association Partnership
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota
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| Summary: | Ongoing partnership between the Forest Service & the Grazing Association (over 190 ranches) for stewardship of national grasslands interspersed with private ranchlands.
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| Website: | www.fs.fed.us/r1/dakotaprairie/mckenzie.htm |
| Contact: | Frank Guzman
District Ranger
USDA Forest Service, Dakota Prairie Grasslands, McKenzie Ranger District
701-842-2393 fguzman@fs.fed.us
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| South-Central/South-West |
| Project Name: | Rio Grande Basin Initiative
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: New Mexico, Texas
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| Summary: | The Rio Grande Basin is a highly productive agricultural area, with irrigated agriculture claiming more than 85 percent of its water.
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| Website: | riogrande.tamu.edu |
| Contact: | Dr. B.L. Harris
Project Director, Associate Director
Texas Water Resources Institute
979-845-1851 bl-harris@tamu.edu
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| Project Name: | Bradshaw Foothills Planning Partnership
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arizona
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| Summary: | A citizen driven management plan is in development for the Bradshaw Foothills in Arizona.
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| Contact: | Chris Horyza
Community Liaison
Bureau of Land Management
623-580-5628 chris_horyza@blm.gov
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| Project Name: | Dry Hollow Agricultural and Wildlife Preservation Initiative
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Colorado
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| Summary: | A private, non-profit land trust uses conservation easements to help landowners preserve nine working ranches and wildlife preserves in the rural, scenic Dry Hollow drainage prized as wildlife habitat
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| Website: | www.avlt.org |
| Contact: | Martha Cochran
Executive Director
Aspen Valley Land Trust
970-963-8440 marthac@avlt.org
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| Project Name: | Landscape Change, Grassland Health, and Bark Beetle Infestation
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arizona
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| Summary: | Remotely sensed satellite data are used to develop maps and GIS layers that enable the San Carlos Apache Tribe to manage their lands.
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| Contact: | Edwin L. Pfeifer
Acting Team Chief
U. S. Geological Survey
520-670-5019 epfeifer@usgs.gov
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| Project Name: | Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Ecosystem Restoration Project
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arkansas
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| Summary: | Through thinning and prescribed burning, this ecosystem has been restored on over 50,000 acres, leading to population increases in five declining species.
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| Website: | www.nwanews.com/story_print.php?paper=adg&Sports=section&storyid=109953 |
| Contact: | L. D. Hedrick
Team Leader for Integrated Resource Management
USDA Forest Service
501-321-5270 lhedrick@fs.fed.us
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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Hokulea, Navigating Change in the Hawaiian Islands
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| Location: | Far West: Hawaii
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| Summary: | "Navigating Change" is a project focused on raising awareness to ultimately motivate people to change their attitudes and behaviors to better care for all our islands and ocean resources.
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| Website: | www.navigatingchange.org and www.hawaiianatolls.org |
| Contact: | Ann Bell
Outdoor Recreation Planner
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(808) 792-9530 Ann_Bell@fws.gov
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| Project Name: | Tomales Bay Watershed
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | The “all-stakeholder” Tomales Bay Watershed Council formed in 2000 and its 30 members unanimously adopted a 135-page watershed plan in 2004.
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| Website: | www.tomalesbaywatershed.org/index.html |
| Contact: | Neysa King
Watershed Coordinator
Tomales Bay Watershed Council
415-663-9092 tbwc@horizoncable.com
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| Project Name: | Participatory Biological Monitoring Guidelines
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| Location: | Far West: Oregon
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| Summary: | The “Participatory Biological Monitoring Guidelines” project helps managers and scientists form local partnerships to meet biological monitoring needs while maintaining scientific standards.
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| Website: | www.ifcae.org/projects/ncssf3/ |
| Contact: | Eric T. Jones, PH.D.
Participatory Research Coordinator
Institute for Culture and Ecology
503-331-6681 etj@ifcae.org
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| Project Name: | Moose Creek Fish Passage Restoration Project
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| Location: | Far West: Alaska
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| Summary: | A man-made waterfall blocked salmon from quality habitat. The Chickaloon Tribe lead a restoration project to reconstruct a natural river channel bypassing the waterfall.
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| Contact: | Jessica Dryden
Moose Creek Project Coordinator
Chickaloon Village Environmental Protection Program
907-745-0737
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| Project Name: | Ragg Station Trail Restoration Project
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| Location: | Far West: Idaho
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| Summary: | An integrated crew made up of the Montana Conservation Corps, Nez Perce National Forest, Framing Our Community, and Nez Perce Tribal employees.
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| Website: | www.FramingOurCommunity.org |
| Contact: | Joyce Dearstyne
Executive Director
Framing Our Community
208 84-2939 joyce@FramingOurCommunity.org
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| Project Name: | Bahia Acquisition and Wetland Restoration Project
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | Project to permanently protect a 632-acre property consisting of unique native oak woodlands and diked/filled wetlands and to restore significant acreage of tidal wetlands.
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| Contact: | Barbara Salzman
President
Marin Audubon Society
415 924-6057 bsalzman@att.net
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| Project Name: | Recoverability and Vulnerability of Desert Ecosystems (RVDE) Project: Mojave Desert Ecosystems
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| Location: | Far West: California, Nevada, South-Central/South-West: Arizona, Utah
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| Summary: | Examines disturbance and recovery of regional desert ecosystems to develop tools to manage desert ecosystems pressured by population growth and competing needs.
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| Website: | geography.wr.usgs.gov/mojave/rvde/ |
| Contact: | Len Gaydos
Center Director
U.S. Geological Survey
650-329-4330 lgaydos@usgs.gov
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