| Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic |
| Project Name: | Forest For Every Classroom
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont
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| Summary: | A Forest For Every Classroom partnership created a stewardship program to build capacity in teachers. They learn about teaching place, forests, ecology, and using public lands as outdoor classroom.
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| Website: | www.nps.gov/mabi/mabi/education/forest.htm |
| Contact: | Kathleen Diehl
Partnership Coordinator
(802) 747-6709 kdiehl@fs.fed.us
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| Project Name: | Quabbin to Cardigan Collaborative
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire
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| Summary: | The Quabbin to Cardigan Collaborative is a multi-state, public/private effort to protect and connect large unfragmented forests in the Monadnock Highlands of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
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| Website: | www.forestsociety.org/landconservation/q2c.asp |
| Contact: | Chris Wells
Coordinator, Q2C Collaborative
Society for the Protection of NH Forests
(603) 224-9945 cwells@forestsociety.org
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| Project Name: | Green Space for Living: Metro-Washington, DC Demonstration Project
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC
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| Summary: | The focus of the partnership is to gather and share information that can help local decision makers better accommodate both development and green space conservation.
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| Contact: | Glenn Eugster
Assistant Regional Director, National Capital Region
National Park Service
202-619-7492
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| Project Name: | Perpetual Protection of 483 acres of Aquidneck Island drinking water reservoirs
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island
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| Summary: | ALT secured a 483-acre conservation agreement from the Town of Portsmouth and City of Newport on the Island's drinking water reservoirs, adding a critical layer of perpetual protection.
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| Website: | www.aquidnecklandtrust.org |
| Contact: | Edward S. Clement, Jr., Esq.
Executive Director
Aquidneck Land Trust
401-849-2799 x12 tclement@ailt.org
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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: | Key West Harbor Dredge Project
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| Location: | Southeastern: Florida
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| Summary: | This project involves dredge and disposal operations within a highly sensitive environment, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
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| Contact: | Audra Livergood
Resource Manager
NOAA Fisheries Habitat Conservation Division
305-595-8352 Audra.Livergood@noaa.gov
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| Project Name: | New River Community Partners
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| Location: | Southeastern: North Carolina
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| Summary: | New River Land Preservation Specialist Project funds a part-time professional dedicated to negotiating the purchase of priority properties for addition to New River State Park and other natural areas.
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| Website: | www.nrcp.org |
| Contact: | Patrick N. Woodie
Executive Director
New River Community Partners, Inc.
336-372-8118, ext. 22 pwoodie@skybest.com
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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: | South Phillips County Rancher Stewardship Alliance
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
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| Summary: | Twenty-five family ranches lead efforts for collaborative conservation to sustain communities, ranching culture and wildlife across 1,500,000 acres of native prairie.
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| Contact: | Dale and Janet Veseth
Contact Persons
South Phillips County Rancher Stewardship Alliance
406-658-2504 djvsth@mtintouch.net
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| South-Central/South-West |
| Project Name: | Thunderbird/Tajique Landscape Projects
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
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| Summary: | Two landscape-scale projects with large partnerships are working to reduce fire hazard, improve forest health, and create jobs for community sustainability.
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| Website: | www.fs.fed.us/projects/hfi/examples/cibola-nf.shtml |
| Contact: | Phil Archuleta
Chief Executive Office
P&M Signs
505-847-2850 info@pmsignsinc.com
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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: | New Mexico Habitat Stamp Program
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
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| Summary: | Directly engaged the public in planning for $10 million in habitat restoration on 380,000 acres and 506 water sources on public lands.
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| Contact: | Don DeLorenzo
Director
Wildlife, Fish and Rare Plants, USDA Forest Service
505-842-3260 ddelorenzo@fs.fed.us
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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Soap Lake Science and Community Collaborative
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| Location: | Far West: Washington
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| Summary: | Science and education are bridging environmental goals and community economic development interests for the benefit of a unique natural resource.
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| Website: | www.thelake.org |
| Contact: | Jerry Vice
Chair
Soap Lake Conservancy
206-229-2066 gavice@comcast.net
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| Project Name: | Lakeface Lamb and Clearwater Stewardship Projects
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| Location: | Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
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| Summary: | Stewardship contracts engage local communities in collaborative forest management and help National Forests meet their forest restoration goals.
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| Website: | www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/projects/stewardship/results/index.shtml |
| Contact: | Liz Johnson-Gebhardt
Community Spokesperson
Priest River Development Corporation
208-448-0210 lizjg35@hotmail.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: | Conservation on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
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| Location: | Far West: Nevada
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| Summary: | The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe recently completed a Comprehensive Resource Management Plan with the assistance from the USDA's NRCS on their 475,000 acre reservation.
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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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| Project Name: | Ocean Shores Waterways
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| Location: | Far West: Washington
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| Summary: | This project addresses waterways-related ecological and economic issues to ensure and promote sustainable practices in this growing coastal community.
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| Website: | forthcoming |
| Contact: | Lynn Wilson
Partnership Director
Ocean Shores Waterways
360-961-3363 lwilson@nasw.org
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| Project Name: | Restoration of Migratory Fish Habitat Through Dam Removal and Fish Passage
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| Location: | Far West: California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, Connecticut
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| Summary: | In 2001 American Rivers and the NOAA CRP began a partnership to cooperatively provide financial and technical assistance to local communities for dam removal and fish passage projects.
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| Website: | www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_programs/crp/partners/americanrivers.html |
| Contact: | Elizabeth Maclin
Director
American Rivers—Rivers Unplugged Campaign
202-347-7550 emaclin@americanrivers.org
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| National |
| Project Name: | CF Industries National Watershed Award
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | The CF Industries National Watershed Award recognizes outstanding community watershed protection efforts. The award focuses on innovative, non-regulatory approaches to improving water quality.
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| Website: | cfindustries.com/commrelations/watershed/watershed.htm |
| Contact: | Jesus I Peralta
Public Affairs Office
CF Industries
202.371.9279 jperalta@cfindustries.com
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| Project Name: | USGS assistance to USDA Conservation Reserve Program
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | USGS furnishes scientific guidance and refinement for USDA- FSA conservation management policies about wildlife, their habitats, and environmental quality.
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| Website: | www.fort.usgs.gov/resources/research%5Fbriefs/landowners.asp |
| Contact: | Arthur W. Allen
Wildlife Biologist
U. S. Geological Survey
970-226-9312 art_allen@usgs.gov
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Conservation Tax Center
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