| Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic |
| Project Name: | Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
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| Summary: | The Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership secured a 27,000-acre community forest and a 312,000-acre conservation easement to sustain a rural economy.
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| Website: | www.newenglandforestry.org/projects/dlfp.asp |
| Contact: | Amos Eno
Executive Director
New England Forestry Foundation
(207) 847-9313 aeno@newenglandforestry.org
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| Project Name: | Delaware Bay Oyster Restoration Project, Delaware & New Jersey
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey, Delaware
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| Summary: | Planting of 110,000 bushels of shell that provide suitable substrate for development of juvenile oysters, resulting in both environmental & economic benefits to the Delaware Bay on a regional level.
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| Contact: | Amanda Muscavage
Project Manager
US Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District
215.656.6576 amanda.j.muscavage@usace.army.mil
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| Project Name: | Revegetation Project at Cape May National Wildlife Refuge
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey
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| Summary: | Study to evaluate cost-effective direct seeding techniques for restoring severely degraded site at former Coast Guard base into quality wildlife habitat along the Atlantic Flyway in New Jersey.
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| Contact: | David Smart
State Resource Conservationist
USDA-NRCS
732-537-6051 david.smart@nj.usda.gov
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| Project Name: | Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, West Virginia
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| Summary: | A partnership of more than 140 parks, refuges, museums, historic sites, and water trails builds citizen involvement in the Chesapeake region.
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| Website: | www.baygateways.net |
| Contact: | Jonathan Doherty
Director, Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
National Park Service
410-267-5725 jdoherty@chesapeakebay.net
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| Southeastern |
| 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: | Protecting Iroquois “Hunt Country” – A Treasured Natural Habitat in Central Kentucky
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| Location: | Southeastern: Kentucky
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| Summary: | Bluegrass Conservancy and members of the Iroquois Hunt Club are working to protect farmland within the Iroquois hunting country; to date, 1,258 acres of “Hunt Country” have been placed under easement.
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| Website: | www.bluegrassconservancy.org |
| Contact: | Tim DeWitt
Executive Director
Bluegrass Conservancy
(859) 255-4552 tdewitt@bluegrassconservancy.org
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| Midwest/Northern High Plains |
| 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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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Building Collaborative Stewardship, North Fork Crooked River
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| Location: | Far West: Oregon
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| Summary: | Project is a model for future efforts as partners work together to forestall lawsuits and establish improvements on private land as well as Federal.
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| Website: | www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/projects/units/paulina/northfork/ |
| Contact: | Janice Staats
Hydrologist
National Riparian Service Team
(541) 416-6891 janice_staats@or.blm.gov
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| Project Name: | Chester Creek Rehabilitation Project
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| Location: | Far West: Alaska
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| Summary: | An urban town-center development project has made conservation its top priority. The project's partners have restored an important natural resource for the people and animals who call the area “home.”
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| Contact: | Mark Pfeffer
CEO
Venture Development Group
907-646-4644
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| Project Name: | Seabird Protection Program
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| Location: | Far West: Hawaii
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| Summary: | The Marine Corps Base Hawaii's Ulupa’u weapons range is the site for a collaborative effort to protect red-footed boobies through state-of-the-art conservation practices.
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| Contact: | Ms. Elizabeth Kumabe
President
Hawaii Audubon Society
808-528-1432 hiaudsoc@pixi.com
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| Project Name: | Commencement Bay Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration
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| Location: | Far West: Washington
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| Summary: | This project showcases community-based restoration in Commencement Bay, a heavily urbanized, industrial area.
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| Website: | www.darp.noaa.gov/northwest/cbay/restore.html |
| Contact: | Lance Winecka
Project Manager
South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group
360-412-0808 lancew@spsseg.org
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| Project Name: | Salt Pond Restoration in San Francisco Bay
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | Restoration of 25,000 wetland acres at salt ponds around San Francisco Bay, with additional benefits from flood management, public access, and recreation.
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| Website: | www.southbayrestoration.org/ and http://www.napa-sonoma-marsh.org/ |
| Contact: | Nadine Hitchcock
San Francisco Bay Program Manager
State Coastal Conservancy
510-286-4176 nhitchcock@scc.ca.gov
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| Project Name: | Audubon California Landowner Stewardship Program
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | Audubon California works with farmers and ranchers in the Sacramento Valley to implement restoration projects in a manner compatible with existing agricultural operations.
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| Website: | ca.audubon.org/LSP/Willow_Slough.htm |
| Contact: | Vance Russell
Program Director
Audubon California
530-795-2921 vrussell@audubon.org
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| Project Name: | St. Joe
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| Location: | Far West: Idaho
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| Summary: | The Trust for Public Land is involved in a significant project to acquire conservation easements on roughly 80,000 acres along the St. Joe River in northern Idaho.
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| Contact: | Tom Sadler
Director of Program Development
Trust for Public Land
202-543-7552 tom.sadler@tpl.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: | Multi-State Sage-grouse Conservation Initiative
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| Location: | Far West: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, South-Central/South-West: Colorado, Utah
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| Summary: | A broadly-based cooperative effort utilizing working groups at the local level to restore habitats and rebuild populations of sage-grouse and other sagebrush-dependent wildlife across the West.
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| Contact: | Kathleen Clarke
Director USDI
Bureau of Land Management
202-208-3801 kathleen_clarke@blm.gov
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| Project Name: | Upper Deschutes Resource Management Plan
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| Location: | Far West: Oregon
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| Summary: | Resource Management Plan was developed and consensus was reached between rancher advocates and environmental groups on a grazing
matrix that categorizes allotments for use.
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| Website: | www5.or.blm.gov/Prineville/Deschutes_RMP/Home.htm |
| Contact: | Teal Purrington
Project Manager
Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District
541-416-6772 tpurring@or.blm.gov
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| National |
| Project Name: | Presidential Quail Initiative
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | Natural resource management agencies and groups developed a national, habitat-based recovery plan to reverse decline in bobwhite quail populations.
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| Website: | www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/quail04.htm |
| Contact: | Donald McKenzie
Northern Bobwhite Conservation Initiative Coordinator
Northern Bobwhite Conservation Initiative
501-941-7994 wmidm@ipa.net
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| Project Name: | Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | The Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative is a partnership among public and private organizations to determine trends in amphibian populations.
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| Website: | armi.usgs.gov/ |
| Contact: | Rick Kearney
ARMI National Coordinator
U. S. Geological Survey
703-648-5719 rkearney@usgs.gov
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| Project Name: | Return of the Wild Turkey in North America
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | The National Wild Turkey Federation worked with its partners to restore wild turkeys to all suitable habitat across North America.
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| Website: | www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/history_of_hunting.html |
| Contact: | Rob Keck
Chief Executive Officer
National Wild Turkey Federation
803-637-3106 pgoad@nwtf.net
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