| 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: | Ontario Dune Coalition
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
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| Summary: | TODC provides technical, educational, and clearinghouse services to its member organizations, property owners and public officials in matters addressing the Eastern Lake Ontario Dunes.
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| Website: | www.nysgdunes.org/dune/dune.html |
| Contact: | John DeHollander
District Manager
Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District
315.592.9663 john_dehollander@alltel.net
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| Project Name: | Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Habitat Restoration
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey
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| Summary: | The Friends of Supawna Meadows NWR are cooperating with partners to control invasive plants on the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
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| Website: | www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=52571 |
| Contact: | Linda Chorba Ziemba
Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(856) 935-1487 fw5rw_smnwr_@fws.gov
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| Project Name: | Philadelphia Vacant Land Management and Reclamation
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania
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| Summary: | A "clean and green" approach to remove blight, attract new residents, and attract investment to urban, vacant land in Philadelphia.
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| Website: | www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/phlgreen/ui_reclaimvacantlots.html |
| Contact: | Mike Groman
Senior Director of Philadelphia Green
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
215-988-8891 mgroman@pennhort.org
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| Project Name: | Perpetual Conservation of Historic Miantonomi Park in Rhode Island
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island
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| Summary: | Miantonomi Park, once the seat of power for the Narragansetts and today a safe haven for song birds and people, has been permanently conserved by a 29-acre conservation easement with ALT.
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| Website: | www.aquidnecklandtrust.org |
| Contact: | Edward S. Clement, Jr., Esq.
Executive Director
Aquidneck Land Trust
401 849 2799 x 12 tclement@ailt.org
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| Midwest/Northern High Plains |
| Project Name: | Bete Grise Preserve
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois
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| Summary: | Partners raised funds and applied for grants to buy Bete Grise, a high quality dune swale wetland system. In 2004, two grants were awarded totaling $1,450,000 for 1104 acres.
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| Website: | hkconserve.com |
| Contact: | Sue Haralson
Administrator
Houghton Keweenaw Conservation District
906 482-0214 sue.haralson@mi.nacdnet.net
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| Project Name: | Middle Mississippi River Wetland Restoration
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois, Missouri
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| Summary: | Since the Great Flood of 1993 American Land Conservancy has been helping restore bottomland hardwood habitat, sidechannels and wetlands from St. Louis to Cairo, IL.
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| Website: | www.alcnet.org |
| Contact: | Jennifer Frazier
Vice President
American Land Conservancy
573-866-9989 jenny@alcnet.org
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| Project Name: | Thompson - Fisher
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
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| Summary: | This project purchased a conservation easement to prevent subdivision and development on 142,000 acres of working forestland in the Thompson River and Fisher River valleys of northwestern Montana.
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| Website: | www.tpl.org |
| Contact: | Tom Sadler
Director of Program Development
Trust for Public Land
202-543-7552 tom.sadler@tpl.org
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| Project Name: | Fleshman Creek
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
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| Summary: | In partnership with the City of Livingston and Trout Unlimited, NPS helped to design and plan a stream restoration project to provide trout spawning and rearing habitat.
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| Website: | www.nps.gov/ncrc/programs/rtca/news&events/ne_stories/conssucc/Trout_Habitat_Improved.html |
| Contact: | Gary Weiner
RTCA Montana field office
National Park Service
(406) 587-1667 gary_weiner@nps.gov
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| South-Central/South-West |
| Project Name: | North Central Texas Water Quality
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Texas
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| Summary: | Develop watershed management plans for six reservoirs in the Trinity River Basin providing water for 1.6 million people.
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| Website: | nctx-water.tamu.edu |
| Contact: | Dr. C. Allan Jones
Director
Texas Water Resources Institute
979-845-1851 cajones@tamu.edu
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| Project Name: | New Mexico Collaborative Watershed Projects
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
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| Summary: | The New Mexico Collaborative Watershed Projects are cooperative community based efforts to improve water quality in New Mexico.
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| Contact: | Sarah Walen
Senior Mediator
Meridian Institute
970-513-8340 ext. 221 skwalen@merid.org
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| Project Name: | Bayou Bartholomew Alliance
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arkansas
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| Summary: | The Alliance is introducing a market-based environmental assets program to support improving stream ecosystem quality.
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| Website: | www.arkansas.gov/bba |
| Contact: | Ronnie Ulmer
The Nature Conservancy
318-412-0472 rulmer@tnc.org
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| Project Name: | Bradshaw Foothills Planning Partnership
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Arizona
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| Summary: | A citizen driven management plan is in development for the Bradshaw Foothills in Arizona.
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| Contact: | Chris Horyza
Community Liaison
Bureau of Land Management
623-580-5628 chris_horyza@blm.gov
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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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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Post Mountain Collaborative Stewardship
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | A collaborative project to develop and implement an ecologically, socially, and economically responsible community wildfire protection plan for the rural community of Post Mountain
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| Website: | www.thewatershedcenter.org |
| Contact: | Nick Guolette
Watershed Research and Training Center
530-628-4206 wrtc@hayfork.net
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| Project Name: | Oregon White Oak Restoration
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| Location: | Far West: Oregon
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| Summary: | Students and neighbors plant seven Oregon white oaks as pilot restoration project aimed at keeping oak habitat in the neighborhood.
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| Contact: | Bob Van Dyk
Project Coordinator
Pacific University
(503) 352-2709 vandykr@pacificu.edu
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| Project Name: | Henry's Fork Watershed Council
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| Location: | Far West: Idaho
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| Summary: | The council works to improve the management of Henry's Fork Watershed by fostering a consensus-based process for planning and implementation of watershed-wide management and restoration projects.
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| Website: | www.henrysfork.com |
| Contact: | Steve Trafton
Executive Director
Henry's Fork Foundation
(208) 652-3567 hff@henrysfork.com
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| Project Name: | MARINe Partnership with Paradise Cove Marine Elementary School
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | Students at Paradise Cove Marine Elementary are using a Mineral Management Service long-term monitoring site to study intertidal marine life.
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| Website: | www.marine.gov |
| Contact: | Tom Readinger
USDI Minerals Management Service
202-208-3530 thomas.readinger@mms.gov
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| Project Name: | Owyhee Initiative
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| Location: | Far West: Idaho
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| Summary: | The Initiative seeks to create a consensus plan for Congressional legislation that will protect the natural resources and landscape in the Owyhee region while preserving livestock grazing.
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| Website: | www.owyheeinitiative.org |
| Contact: | Fred Grant
Owyhee Initiative Chairman
Owyhee Initiative
(208) 855-0707 owyheeinitiative@cableone.net
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| National |
| Project Name: | Partnership Series
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| Location: | National
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| Summary: | The Partnership Series fosters the empowerment of people and organizations working together toward sustainable landscapes, economies, and communities.
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| Website: | www.ntc.blm.gov/partner |
| Contact: | Richard Whitley
National Stewardship & Partnership Coordinator
USDI Bureau of Land Management (WO-170)
541-618-2305 Richard_Whitley@blm.gov
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