| Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic |
| Project Name: | North Fork Potomac Watershed
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: West Virginia
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| Summary: | Landowners, environmentalists, universities, and government agencies worked together to restore Potomac River water quality by reducing polluted runoff from beef and poultry farms.
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| Website: | www.wvca.us |
| Contact: | John Wagoner
Chairman
Potomac Valley Construction District
304-822-5174 www.wvca.us
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| Project Name: | Boston Harbor Island National Park Area
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts
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| Summary: | A new breed of National Park, owned and managed collaboratively by a broad range of public and private landowners, agencies, and partners.
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| Contact: | Thomas B. Powers
President
Island Alliance
617-223-8530 tpowers@islandalliance.org
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| Southeastern |
| Project Name: | Compatible Use Buffer Program
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| Location: | Southeastern: Florida
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| Summary: | Florida agencies and groups worked with Camp Blanding to create buffer zones to stem Base encroachment and provide open space for conservation.
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| Website: | aec.army.mil/usaec/natural/natural03a.html |
| Contact: | Mollie Glover Palmer
Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
850-245-2011 mollie.palmer@dep.state.fl.us
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| Project Name: | South Florida Ecosystem Restoration
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| Location: | Southeastern: Florida
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| Summary: | Governments, Tribes, NGO’s and others cooperate to restore the Everglades while addressing water supply and flood control needs of rapidly developing region.
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| Website: | www.sfrestore.org |
| Contact: | Greg May
Office of the Executive Director
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
305-348-1665 gmay@sfrestore.org
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| Project Name: | Ecosystem Enhancement Program
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| Location: | Southeastern: North Carolina
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| Summary: | A nationally recognized program for its efforts to restore, enhance and protect the environment and foster responsible economic growth.
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| Website: | www.nceep.net |
| Contact: | Bill Gilmore
Director
Ecosystem Enhancement Program
919-715-1412 bill.gilmore@ncmail.net
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| Project Name: | NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program
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| Location: | Southeastern: North Carolina
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| Summary: | A nationally recognized program for its efforts to restore, enhance and protect the environment and foster responsible economic growth.
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| Website: | www.nceep.net |
| Contact: | Bill Gilmore
Director
NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program
917-715-1412 bill.gilmore@ncmail.net
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| Midwest/Northern High Plains |
| Project Name: | Interdisciplinary Investigation of Coalbed Methane Development in the Powder River Basin
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
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| Summary: | Multi-scale, Interdisciplinary study supporting BLM and state of Wyoming in managing the environmental impacts on local landowners of the rapid pace of coal bed methane development.
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| Website: | rockyitr.cr.usgs.gov/cbmprb/ |
| Contact: | Myron Brooks
Center Director
U. S. Geological Survey
307-778-293-x 2728 mhbrooks@usgs.gov
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| Project Name: | Kankakee Sands Restoration Project
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana
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| Summary: | The Kankakee Sands Restoration works with state and federal partners to re-connect 4 protected pristine areas in Newton County, thereby restoring a large segment of native prairie to Indiana.
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| Website: | www.nature.org/indiana |
| Contact: | Chip O'Leary
Kankakee Sands Project Director
The Nature Conservancy
(219) 285-2184 co'leary@tnc.org
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| South-Central/South-West |
| Project Name: | Henry Mountain Bison Herd
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Utah
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| Summary: | Sportsmen and ranchers negotiate win-win solutions to maintain livestock grazing and ensure quality bison hunts in the Utah Henry Mountains.
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| Contact: | Don Peay
Henry Mountain Sportsmen for Habitat
801-635-5576
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| Project Name: | Diablo Trust
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arizona
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| Summary: | The purpose of the Diablo Trust is to maintain Diablo Trust ranches as long-term, economically viable enterprises managed in harmony with the natural environment and the broader community.
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| Website: | www.diablotrust.org |
| Contact: | Hadassah Holland
Administrative and Program Manager
Diablo Trust
(928) 523-0588 info@diablotrust.org
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| Project Name: | Lone Star Legacy Red Drum Hatchery Project
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Texas
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| Summary: | Three facilities along the Texas coast are dedicated to marine fisheries research and hatchery production; these replenishment efforts form the centerpiece of the state’s sportfishing industry.
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| Website: | www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fish/hatch/ccacpl.phtml |
| Contact: | Pat Murray
Texas Chairman
Coastal Conservation Association
713-626-4234
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| Project Name: | Rio Grande Riverpark
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Texas
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| Summary: | National Park Service convened the Riverpark Task Force, provided guidance on funding, and then actively engaged the community in trail design, construction, public art and celebrations.
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| Website: | www.nps.gov/rtca |
| Contact: | Paul Cusumano
Outdoor Recreation Planner
National Park Service
(505) 988-6093 paul_cusumano@nps.gov
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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Cooperative Air Quality Workshops
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | A series of agricultural air quality workshops were offered to San Joaquin Valley farmers to create Conservation Management Practice plans (CMPs).
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| Contact: | John Beyer
NRCS Air Quality Coordinator
Natural Resources Conservation Service
559-252-2191 john.beyer@ca.usda.gov
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| Project Name: | Washington State Military Sustainability Program
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| Location: | Far West: Washington
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| Summary: | The military sustainability program uses a multi-stakeholder process to integrate conservation and sustainable land practices into military operations.
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| Website: | www.afcee.brooks.af.mil/sf/sed/ |
| Contact: | Katherine Baril
Director
Washington State Governor Locke’s Institute for Sustainability and Innovation
360-379-5610 x202 kbaril@wsu.edu
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| Project Name: | Headwaters Corner Interpretive Center
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | Community partners and conservation agencies collaborate to bring environmental education of regional significance to the general public of southern California.
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| Website: | www.mountainstrust.org |
| Contact: | Debbie O'Hare
Project Manager
Mountains Restoration Trust
818-591-1701 dohare@mountainstrust.org
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| Project Name: | Little Canyon Mountain Fuel Reduction Project
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| Location: | Far West: Oregon
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| Summary: | Communities partner with BLM to reduce fuels on public lands adjacent to private lands.
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| Website: | www5.or.blm.gov/Prineville/LCM/home.htm |
| Contact: | Tina Welch
Field Manager, Central Oregon Resource Area
Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District
541-416-6731 cmwelch@or.blm.gov
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| Project Name: | Square Lake Preserve
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| Location: | Far West: Idaho
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| Summary: | Surrounded by public land, the Square Lake Preserve protects critical habitat for greater sage grouse, a declining species in the West, and other sagebrush steppe obligates.
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| Website: | www.woodriverlandtrust.org/squarelake.html |
| Contact: | Allison Kennedy
Planning Coordinator
Wood River Land Trust
(208) 788-3947 akennedy@woodriverlandtrust.org
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| Project Name: | The Habitat Trust for Wildlife
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | Working cooperatively with local grassroots organizations and landowners, THT manages and owns in fee title over 500-acres of globally imperiled habitats in biodiversity hotspots.
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| Website: | www.TheHabitatTrust.org |
| Contact: | Leeona Klippstein
President
The Habitat Trust for Wildlife
9109475091 leeona@earthlink.net
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| National |
| Project Name: | Team Tamarisk: Cooperating for Results
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | The Albuquerque Team Tamarisk conference launched Team Tamarisk as an inclusive alliance of cooperating agencies and individuals devoted to the control of non-native invasive plants.
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| Contact: | Tim Carlson
Executive Director
Tamarisk Coalition
970-248-1683 tcarlson@tamariskcoalition.org
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| Project Name: | Walk A Mile in My Boots is Implemented Nationwide
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | Cattlemen and biologists spend several days together, experiencing first-hand each other’s day-to-day activities, with the goal of opening the lines of communication, and developing partnerships.
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| Website: | www.fws.gov/walkamile/ |
| Contact: | Stacey Katseanes
Associate Director
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
202-347-0228 x114 skatseanes@beef.org
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