| Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic |
| Project Name: | Buffalo Creek Riparian Buffer Restoration
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania, West Virginia
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| Summary: | Agencies, universities, non-profits, and foundations offered cost share and technical assistance for riparian and instream habitat restoration.
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| Contact: | Jose Taracido
Wildlife Conservation Specialist
California University of Pennsylvania
724-938-5799 Taracido@cup.edu
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| Project Name: | Connecticut River - Riverbank Restoration
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire, Vermont
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| Summary: | Riverbank erosion control, water quality improvement, and habitat enhancement through bank stabilization and riparian buffer installation.
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| Website: | www.crjc.org |
| Contact: | Sharon Francis
Executive Director
Connecticut River Joint Commissions
603-826-4800 SharonF@cyberportal.net
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| Project Name: | Downeast Initiative
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
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| Summary: | This pilot project, in collaboration with fisheries in other parts of the Gulf of Maine, can serve as a model for developing sustainable, resilient co-management of marine resources.
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| Contact: | Dr. James Wilson
Professor, School of Marine Sciences
University of Maine
207-581-4368 jwilson@maine.edu
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| Southeastern |
| Project Name: | Agency on Bay Management
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| Location: | Southeastern: Florida
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| Summary: | The Agency on Bay Management (ABM) is a 20-year collaboration of resource stakeholders focused on the wise management of Tampa Bay.
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| Website: | www.tbrpc.org/abm/default.htm |
| Contact: | Suzanne Cooper
Principal Planner
Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council
727-570-5151 x 32 suzanne@tbrpc.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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| Midwest/Northern High Plains |
| Project Name: | Ohio Scioto River Basin Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio
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| Summary: | The Ohio Scioto River Basin CREP helps cost-share the creation of conservation buffers and wetlands on private farms to improve water quality.
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| Website: | www.ohiodnr.com/soilandwater/sciotocrep |
| Contact: | Rob Hamilton
Resource Management Specialist, Division of Soil and Water Conservation
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
614-562-0738 rob-hamilton@oh.nacdnet.org
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| Project Name: | Powder River Conservation District, Flood Mitigation Efforts
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
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| Summary: | Partners help town recover from flood and develop a flood prevention plan. Emergency watershed protection and PL-83-566 - small watershed protection.
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| Contact: | Allison Engle
District Conservationist
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service
307-738-2321 allison.engle@wy.usda.gov
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| Project Name: | Rapid Response to DOI Land and Resource Manager's needs:
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming, Montana, South-Central/South-West: Colorado
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| Summary: | USGS scientists support science needs of DOI land managers by sharing intellectual property, providing technical assistance, and synthesizing existing data and information.
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| Contact: | Randle Olsen
Regional Science Coordinator
U. S. Geological Survey
303-202-4743 rwolsen@usgs.gov
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| South-Central/South-West |
| Project Name: | Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Colorado
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| Summary: | The partnership aims to improve the health of the ponderosa pine forest and support the private timber industry, a key component of the local economy in Montezuma county.
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| Website: | www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ponderosa.html |
| Contact: | Carla Harper
Coordinator
Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership
(970) 565-6061 charper@co.montezuma.co.us
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| Project Name: | Upper Verde River Adaptive Management Partnership (UVRAMP)
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arizona
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| Summary: | UVRAMP has improved the flow of information and relationships between stakeholders, and become a model for collaboratively addressing complex natural resource issues.
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| Website: | www.fs.fed.us/rm/main/pa/newsclips/02_02/020502_prescott.html |
| Contact: | Dan Neary
Project Leader
USDA Forest Service
928-556-2176 dneary@fs.fed.us
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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative
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| Location: | Far West: Washington
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| Summary: | A citizen-based approach to restoring and protecting marine species and habitats in the Northwest Straits region of Washington State.
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| Website: | www.nwstraits.org |
| Contact: | Tom Cowan
Director
Northwest Straits Commission
(360) 428-1085 cowan@nwstraits.org
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| Project Name: | Cascade Streamwatch Project
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| Location: | Far West: Oregon
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| Summary: | Cascade Streamwatch is a collaborative educational outdoor site for teaching and expanding public understanding of healthy watersheds and fisheries.
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| Website: | www.beoutside.org/csw |
| Contact: | Dale Waddell
Executive Director
Wolftree Inc.
503-239-1820 sierra@ccwebster.net
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| Project Name: | Oasis Valley Project
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| Location: | Far West: Nevada
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| Summary: | The town of Beatty, Nevada partnered with The Nature Conservancy to craft a conservation strategy that prevented the endangered species listing for an endemic toad.
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| Website: | www.amargosatoad.com |
| Contact: | Jim Moore
Oasis Valley Project Manager
The Nature Conservancy
702-737-8744 jmoore@tnc.org
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| Project Name: | Palos Verde Blue Butterfly Recovery Program
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | The Defense Support Center is working with partners, on its lands, to enhance the only known population of Palos Verdes blue butterflies, and to restore it elsewhere.
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| Contact: | Mr. Dan Ryan
Stewardship Director
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
310-541-7613 x 203 dryan@pvplc.org
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| Project Name: | Hawaii Coral Reef and Native Algae Restoration
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| Location: | Far West: Hawaii
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| Summary: | Volunteers, local communities, NGOs, businesses, and government agencies work together to remove invasive alien algae and to begin to restore Hawaii's coral reefs.
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| Website: | www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/hawaii |
| Contact: | Eric Co
Marine Conservation Program Coordinator
The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii
808-537-4508 eco@tnc.org
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| Project Name: | Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Initiative
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| Location: | Far West: Alaska
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| Summary: | The Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Initiative is a cooperative conservation program to allow willing landowners to sell inholdings along salmon rivers for conservation and public access purposes.
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| Website: | www.swakcc.org |
| Contact: | Glenn Elison
Alaska Director
The Conservation Fund
907-868-7974 glennelison@alaska.com
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| Project Name: | Metropolitan Greenspaces Program
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| Location: | Far West: Washington, Oregon
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| Summary: | This program supports environmental education, habitat restoration and protection, environmental planning, and ecological studies throughout an urban greenspaces system.
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| Website: | www.fws.gov/pacific/oregonfwo/greenspaces/gs-UrbanConservation.htm |
| Contact: | Jim Desmond
Senior Director
Metro Regional Parks and Greenspaces
(503) 797-1850 desmondj@metro.dst.or.us
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| Project Name: | Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC)
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| Location: | Far West: Washington, Oregon
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| Summary: | The Spirit of the Fish plan utilizes a gravel-to-gravel approach integrated into an adaptive management framework to restore treaty protected fish resources
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| Website: | www.critfc.org |
| Contact: | Olney Patt, Jr.
Executive Director
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
503-238-0667 pato@critfc.org
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| National |
| 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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| Project Name: | National Fish Habitat Initiative (NFHI)
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | NFHI is a nationwide aquatic habitat health strategy that harnesses the energies, expertise and existing partnerships of state and federal agencies and conservation organizations.
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| Website: | www.fishhabitat.org |
| Contact: | Eric Schwaab
Resource Director
International Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies
202-624-7890 eschwaab@iafwa.org
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