| Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic |
| Project Name: | Conserving Maryland’s Threatened Bog Turtle
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
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| Summary: | The Partnership is working with private farmers and landowners to help recover the threatened bog turtle.
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| Website: | www.bogturtles.org |
| Contact: | Tim Male
Senior Ecologist
Environmental Defense
2023873500 tmale@ed.org
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| Project Name: | Tucquan Glen Nature Preserve
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania
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| Summary: | The Conservancy, landowners, donors, foundations and government agencies permanently protected this 500 acre rhododendron-canopied ravine, for wildlife and people, over 2 decades.
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| Website: | www.lancasterconservancy.org |
| Contact: | Jennifer Johnson
Director, Marketing Communications
The Lancaster County Conservancy
717.392.7891 jjohnson@lancasterconservancy.org
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| Southeastern |
| Project Name: | Conserving Georgia's Dwindling Farmland
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| Location: | Southeastern: Georgia
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| Summary: | The Athens Land Trust and the Oconee Partnership for Farmland Protection worked to place a conservation easement on a portion of the Breedlove-Powers Farm in rapidly-developing Oconee County, Georgia.
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| Contact: | John Kissane
Conservation Director
Athens Land Trust
706.613.0122 conservation@athenslandtrust.org
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| Project Name: | Suwannee River Partnership
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| Location: | Southeastern: Florida
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| Summary: | The Partnership is working with producers to improve river water quality through a voluntary program of Best Management Practices (BMP) and verification.
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| Website: | mysuwanneeriver.com |
| Contact: | Jeffrey Woods
Assistant State Conservationist for Programs
Natural Resources Conservation Service
352-338-9515 jeffrey.woods@fl.usda.gov
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| Project Name: | Southern Appalachian Elk Restoration
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| Location: | Southeastern: Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina
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| Summary: | Restoration of elk to its historic eastern range is underway in the southern Appalachians, with elk populations in Kentucky now exceeding 5,550.
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| Website: | www.rmef.org/bugle/pages/05MA/appalachian_1.html |
| Contact: | David Ledford
Southeast Initiative Program Director
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
606-330-0179 dledford@RMEF.org
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| Project Name: | Northern bobwhite restoration in middle and western Tennessee
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| Location: | Southeastern: Tennessee
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| Summary: | We are improving bobwhite nesting and brood rearing habitat on private lands through Farm Bill conservation programs and producer incentive payments.
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| Contact: | Roger Wells
National Habitat Coordinator
Quail Unlimited, Inc.
620-443-5834 roger@qu.org
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| Project Name: | Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Programmatic Safe Harbor
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| Location: | Southeastern: South Carolina
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| Summary: | Safe Harbor agreement was established in South Carolina to address landowner concerns and to provide sufficient assurances to engage them in woodpecker habitat conservation.
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| Contact: | Michael Bean
Sr. Attorney, Ecosystems Program
Environmental Defense
202-387-3500 ext. 3312 michael_bean@environmentaldefense.org
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| Midwest/Northern High Plains |
| Project Name: | North Lake Basin Wetlands Restoration
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska
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| Summary: | Contaminated ground water is cleaned with innovative technology and used to restore wetlands in a critical migratory waterfowl flyway.
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| Website: | www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/epb/hazardous_waste.htm |
| Contact: | Steve Gilmore
Program Manager for Hazardous Waste Activities
USDA Farm Service Agency
202-720-5104 sgilmore@wdc.fsa.usda.gov
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| Project Name: | International Lake Level Management: Minnesota-Ontario Lakes region
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
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| Summary: | An international research program documents ecological changes associated with the new hydrologic regime in Namakan Reservoir, Voyageurs National Park.
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| Contact: | Larry Kallemeyn
Research Scientist
U.S. Geological Survey
218-283-9821 larry_kallemeyn@usgs.gov
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| Project Name: | Michigan Frog & Toad Survey
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan
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| Summary: | The Michigan Frog and Toad Survey will provide a wealth of information on the status of Michigan frog and toad populations, and help monitor the quality of our environment.
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| Website: | www.michigan.gov/dnr/1,1607,7-153-10370_12143_12194---,00.html |
| Contact: | Lori Sargent
Natural Heritage Specialist
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
517-373-9418 SargenL2@michigan.gov
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| Project Name: | Muddy Creek Coordinated Resource Management Project
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
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| Summary: | Muddy Creek project raised $2 million for habitat restoration to address natural resource management issues.
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| Contact: | Larry Hicks
Natural Resource Coordinator
Little Snake River Conservation District
307-383-7869 lsrcd@yahoo.com
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| Project Name: | Northwest Connections
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
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| Summary: | Involves rural residents, students and government agencies in cooperative efforts to identify and restore critical habitat connections in the Swan Valley of Montana
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| Website: | northwestconnections.org |
| Contact: | Melanie Parker
Director
Northwest Connections
406.754.3185 nwc@montana.com
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| Project Name: | Providing Data Critical to Managing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for a Keystone Species
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
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| Summary: | Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team conducts research and long-term radio monitoring efforts on expanding grizzly bear populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
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| Website: | www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/igbst-home.htm |
| Contact: | Charles C. Schwartz
Principal Investigator
U. S. Geological Survey
406-994-5043 chuck_schwartz@usgs.gov
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| Project Name: | Red River Basin Restoration Effort
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
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| Summary: | Partnership works with others to restore aquatic connectivity by removing or providing fish passage around select dams and other barriers to fish passage within the Red River basin.
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| Contact: | Marcia C. M. de Almeida
Fish Passage Interim Coordinator R9
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
703-358-1941 Marcia_Almeida@fws.gov
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| South-Central/South-West |
| Project Name: | Diablo Trust/Diablo Canyon Rural Planning Area
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arizona
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| Summary: | With a goal to provide a model for other rural communities across Arizona, and the West, the project has produced innovative planning methods to help protect the economic value of ranchlands.
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| Website: | www.diablotrust.org |
| Contact: | Hadassah Holland Ziegler
Administrative & Program Manager
The Diablo Trust
928-523-0588 info@diablotrust.org
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| Project Name: | Arizona OHV Inventory Partnership
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arizona
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| Summary: | Interagency comprehensive inventory of existing OHV routes on FS, BLM, State Trust Lands in AZ.
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| Website: | www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/ohv/ |
| Contact: | Jerry Ingersoll
OHV Program Leader
USDA Forest Service
202-205-0931 jingersoll@fs.fed.us
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| Project Name: | Oklahoma Master Naturalist Program
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Oklahoma
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| Summary: | The goal of this program is to train a core of naturalists who then provide volunteer services, which includes environmental education, habitat enhancement, and public understanding of ecosystems.
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| Website: | www.okmasternaturalist.org |
| Contact: | Sharon Bennett
President, OK Master Naturalist Central Chapter
Oklahoma Master Naturalist Program
580-335-2289 sharon_bennett@mindspring.com
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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Jacksonville Woodlands
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| Location: | Far West: Oregon
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| Summary: | Partners collaborated to
establish a remarkable system of urban hiking and equestrian interpretative trails. The Federally listed lily Frittilaria Gentneri is located throughout the JWA lands.
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| Contact: | Genivieve Rasmussen
Natural Resource Staff Administrator
Bureau of Land Management Medford District
541-618-2348 Genivieve_Rasmussen@blm.gov
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| National |
| Project Name: | Wildlife Habitat Registry
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | To provide a web mapping tool to facilitate collaboration among wildlife biologist in federal, state, and tribal agencies and among NGO's involved in wildlife habitat projects.
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| Website: | ims.geodata-mt.com/nwhpr.htm |
| Contact: | Marcy Allen
NWR Development Team
Geodata Services
406-721-8865 mallen@geodata-mt.com
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| Project Name: | Wildland Fire Leadership Council
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) was established in April 2002 to implement and coordinate the National Fire Plan and Federal Wildland Fire Policy inplementation.
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| Website: | www.fireplan.gov |
| Contact: | Corbin Newman
National Fire Plan Coordinator
USDA Forest Service
202-205-1332 cnewman02@fs.fed.us
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