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2002
MAP AWARDS
CENTRAL
COLORADO ROCKIES
Trout Unlimited-Cutthroat
Chapter (CO)
Cheesman Canyon Restoration Project
To
restore and complete the Gill Trail in Cheesman
Canyon, as well as build new "defined" access
trails to the South Platte River. The canyon is
one of the most heavily used in the state, and
the Gill Trail is in need of restoration. The
Cutthroat Chapter will also eliminate social trails
and restore habitat for the federally endangered
Pawnee butterfly.
Eagle County Youth
Conservation Corps (CO)
Eagle County's Youth Land Stewardship program
To help young people
learn about forest management while they explore
future career opportunities and assist the Forest
Service with needed watershed restoration, fuels
reduction, urban interface and general forest
health restoration.
NWCCOG Foundation,
Inc. (CO)
Blue River Restoration
To ensure that
the famed gold medal trout stream, Blue River
below Dillon Reservoir, remains a high quality
destination river for anglers from all over the
nation and world, through a collaborative partnership
focusing on restoration of trout habitat, especially
during low water flows.
Coalition for the
Upper South Platte (CO)
Burned Area Restoration of the Hayman Fire
To coordinate and implement emergency watershed
restoration and enhancement projects that mitigate
some of the most serious effects of the massive
2002 Hayman fire in the Upper South Platte through
placement of erosion control barriers, reseeding
and other fire recovery efforts.
Headwaters Trails
Alliance (CO)
National Public Lands Day Event 2002
To
work in the Williams Fork Drainage, to: maintain
a 100' boardwalk, apply hardening devices to both
motorized trails and horse trails, build turnpikes
on a non-motorized trail, and transplant trees
to a campground, all meeting USFS standards and
strategic directives of the Sulpher Ranger Districts.
Colorado Fourteeners
Initiative (CO)
2002 Partnership for Preservation
To augment
existing federal resources for important trail
restoration projects with contribution from individuals,
non-profits and businesses in order to mitigate
human impacts on fragile alpine ecosystems under
the guidance of the USDA Forest Service.
Volunteers for Outdoor
Colorado (CO)
VOC 2002 USFS Partnership Projects
To
involve more than 730 community volunteers in
the completion of five high priority projects
that mitigate recreational impacts, and share
a diverse array of community, economic, wildlife
and conservation benefits.
MULTIPLE
SITES
Student Conservation Association (OR, CO)
SCA Fire Corps
To expand and strengthen
the SCA Fire Education Corps-a national initiative
to educate homeowners and communities about wildlife
danger, home fire protection, and defensible space.
The Conservation
Fund (NC, TN)
Black Land Trust Convening
To examine
the feasibility of creating a regional land trust
to protect African American-owned forestlands
and farmlands in the Southeastern United States.
Pinchot Institute
for Conservation (MT, CA, OR)
Community Benefits from National Forest Management
Activities
To study (on six National Forests),
the measurable community benefits derived from
land management activities, through a survey of
prime and sub-contractors engaging in land management
work.
American Hiking Society
(GA, OR, WI)
Project Leader Training for Trail Volunteers:
Supporting National Forests along the Appalachians,
Central Cascades, and Great Lakes Region
To develop a "Project Leader" training
program and manual for volunteers to assume the
advance work before a crew arrives and to coordinate
crew session tasks, thereby increasing the efficiency
and tangible accomplishments of each session.
OREGON COASTAL/CENTRAL
CASCADES
ICYI (Inner City
Youth Institute) Natural Resources (OR)
Restoration of Salmon & Clackamas Watersheds,
Mt. Hood National Forest
To involve 60
diverse youth in restoration of watershed plant
communities, improvement of fish habitat and fish
structures, and mitigation of the effects of visitor
recreation adjacent to fish-bearing streams.
Heart of Oregon Corps,
Inc. (OR)
Crooked River National Habitat Restoration Project
To employ and train local at-risk youth to
enhance upland sagebrush habitat through restoration
of native plants, control of soil erosion, removal
of invasive species, and reestablishment of Quail
habitat.
Oregon Hunter's Association,
Redmond Chapter (OR)
Sagebrush Steppe Habitat Restoration
To
restore both the flora and fauna of land that
no longer supports healthy sagebrush steppe ecosystems
through native re-seeding and juniper removal
on 1,500 acres.
Oregon Youth Conservation
Corps (OR)
Central Cascades Science Initiative
To
involve high school students in hands-on field
projects to restore degraded wilderness trails,
remove noxious weeds, and complete fuels reduction
and riparian rehabilitation work.
Sustainable Northwest
(OR)
Boaz Forest Health and Small Diameter Utilization
Project
To promote linkages between the
health of the forest and the vitality and economic
well-being of the communities closest to federal
forestland through a collaborative project to
remove and process small diameter trees.
Community Action
Team of Sisters (OR)
CAT Tracks
To conduct an inventory of
existing and future trails in the Sisters area
and create maps for display, planning and distribution.
American Bird Conservancy-Virginia
Office (OR)
Oregon Cascades Birding Trail
To create
a network of recreational birding and wildlife
observation sites in the Cascade Mountains of
Oregon that are identified on a specially prepared
map/brochure and linked via signage on existing
roads, to spread visitation across multiple sites,
and engage public interest in birds and habitat
conservation.
Ruffed Grouse Society
(OR)
First Creek Riparian Enhancement
To remove
dead and dying white fir to help protect the First
Creek drainage from catastrophic fire. In addition,
cottonwood clones will be planted in the drainage
to provide deciduous forest wildlife habitats.
Cascade Earth Force
& Central Cascade Alliance (OR)
GREEN: Protecting Our Watershed ~ Youth Action
Initiative
To partner middle school students,
teachers, environmental experts, and other community
partners in assessing the health of local watersheds
and developing action plans to achieve long-lasting
improvements to the conditions of local watershed
ecosystems and the quality of life in local communities.
Cascade Pacific RC
& D, Inc. (OR)
Fish Friendly Culverts in Lane County, Oregon
To replace four culverts which currently inhibit
passage of particularly coho salmon but also other
aquatic species in four drainage in Lane County,
Oregon
OUTSIDE FOCUS AREAS
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (NM)
RMYC Sustainable Community Forestry Program
To train youth in sustainable forestry principles
and techniques, creating value added products
from small diameter timber, and involving community
members in forestry planning and implementation,
RMYC becomes a vehicle for building the community's
capacity to improve forest and community health.
The Forest Trust
(NM)
Workforce Development to Facilitate Fuel Reduction
Treatment
Community workers in Cuba, NM
will be trained and organized to form a business
that contracts with the Santa Fe National Forest
to reduce fuels in densely stocked stands.
Four Corners School
of Outdoor Education (UT)
Canyon Country Youth Corps
To train and
employ primarily Navajo youth to complete habitat
restoration projects of USFS and BLM lands in
southern Utah and earn school credit, Americorps
education awards, and minimum wage. CCYC partners
include the Forest Service, BLM, Workforce Investment
Act, San Juan County, Utah and Kayenta, Arizona
school districts.
Sustainable Northwest
(OR)
Monitoring for Sustainable Forestry
To
promote sustainable forest management on public
and private lands through the use of a state-of-the-art
ecological monitoring system to track the impacts
of restoration work in the Chewaucan Watershed
of the Fremont-Winema National Forest.
New Hampshire Rural
Development Council (NH, VT, MA)
Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities
of the Northern Forest
To implement a
regional training workshop and follow up technical
assistance program designed to provide community
teams from the three northern New England states
with tools and techniques to develop sustainable
economics, environmental and cultural strategies
around wise use of adjacent public and private
forest lands.
Rocky Mountain Field
Institute (CO)
South Colony Lakes Basin/Crestone Needle Restoration
Project
To mitigate recreation related
impacts and enhance wilderness conditions in one
of the most spectacular and popular wilderness
destinations in Colorado.
Trailweavers Network
(CA)
Electronic Kiosk Upgrade
To add two information/education
sites to the permitting system and all content
configured into the new Trailweavers programming
which converts the present stand-alone system
into a Forest-wide networked system.
American Forest Foundation
(MT)
Shared Streams in Montana
To organize
and hold a riparian habitat restoration and forest
stewardship demonstration field day for non-industrial
landowners in northwestern Montana.
Yaak Valley Forest
Council (MT)
Yaak Headquarters Restoration Partnership Project
To survey 75 miles of stream for sediment
load (caused mainly by timber extraction projects,
where unmaintained logging roads cross streams)
in the upper Yaak Valley River watershed, which
is one of the last strongholds of genetically
pure, native inland redband rainbow trout remaining
in Montana.
Absaroka Landscape
Office (WY)
The Eastern Absaroka Front Restoration Project
To provide forage for permittees whose grazing
allotments are unavailable due to the restoration
activities of the Shoshone National Forest.
San Juan Mountains
Association (CO)
Community Stewardship in Wildfire Risk Reduction
in the San Juan Mountains
To train volunteers
to be Fire Wise public ambassadors, educating
communities and individuals about prevention and
risk reduction.
Friends of the Trail
(WA)
The I-90 Greenway Project
To conduct clean-ups, monitor abused areas, and
incorporate prevention and education measures
in order to prevent illegal dumping on Forest
Service lands and waterways.
Redwood Community
Action Agency (CA)
Collaborative Watershed Restoration Training Project
To complete road decommissioning and storm-proofing
in collaboration with Native American tribes,
the USFS and the RCAA.
The Mountain Institute
(WV)
Blister Swamp Habitat Restoration
To protect
20 acres of one of the last Balsam fir wetlands
in the eastern United States.
Madison Valley Ranchlands
Group Weed Committee (MT)
Madison Valley Weed Control
To aggressively
treat noxious weed infestation and follow a control
plan to eventually eradicate noxious weeds from
the Madison Valley
SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
Appalachian Voices (NC)
Community Sustainable Forestry in the Southern
Appalachians
To work with southern Appalachian
communities near National Forests to promote sustainable
forest management and encourage riparian re-forestation.
American Chestnut
Foundation (NC)
American Chestnut Restoration
To integrate
inventory, pollination, planting, and education
for the restoration of American chestnut to the
Southern Appalachian region. Development of a
strategic plan will prepare local community forest
groups towards eventual outplanting of American
chestnut in the next 4-5 years.
Adopt-A-Watershed
(NC)
Southeast Leadership Institute
To better
serve under-represented communities and develop
them as leaders, Adopt-A-Watershed is partnering
with Historically Black Colleges and Universities
and the Minority serving Institutions (HBCU/MI
Environmental Consortium) to offer a second Leadership
Institute in the Southeastern United States.
Land Trust for Little
Tennessee (NC)
The Little Tennessee Sustainable Forestry Partnership
To develop local support for acquiring working
forest conservation easements, establishing sustainable
forestry demonstration sites, conducting extension
activities, and implementing riparian restoration
practices and education along the upper Little
Tennessee River.
Palmetto Conservation
Foundation (SC)
Oconee Connector
To develop a multi-use
recreation trail connecting two state parks through
national forest lands.
Clemson University
and the Chattooga Conservancy (GA)
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Biological Control Project
To develop an effective biological control
for the HWA by creating a "rear laboratory"
to produce large qualities of a beneficial insect,
Psudoscymnus tsugae, for release as the principle
agent in a strategy for controlling further outbreaks
of the HWA.
Southern Appalachian
Man & the Biosphere Foundation (TN)
Appalachian Environmental Monitoring Program
To help develop the capacity of citizen scientists
in these gateway communities to understand the
Southern Appalachian environment and to encourage
their participation in decision-making processes
of their local government and the federal land
management agencies.
SELWAY/BITTERROOT COMPLEX (MT, ID)
Nez Perce Tribe Fisheries/Watershed Department
(MT)
Evaluating Road-Related Impacts to Watershed Conditions
in the Upper Lochsa
To develop a comprehensive
inventory of potential impacts to aquatic resources
cause by forest roads in the Upper Lochsa Sub-basin
of the Clearwater National Forest.
Back Country Horsemen
of North Central Idaho (ID)
Tom Beal Park-Trailhead Feed Bunks
To
construct and install three concrete feed bunks
at the Tom Beal livestock trailhead.
Bitterroot RC&D
(MT)
Cone Collection and Reforestation
To train
several local people in proper cone tree selection,
cone collection and propagation of collected conifer
species utilizing Forest Service guidelines.
Nez Perce Tribe Fisheries/Watershed
Department (ID)
Nez Perce Tribe Lewis and Clark Trail Waterway
and Roadway Restoration and Clean-up Project
To develop local partnerships to do restoration
and clean-up work in the watershed areas along
the Clearwater River in the lower Selway-Bitterroot
Complex.
Bitterroot Water
Forum (MT)
Skalkaho Creek Migratory Westslope Cutthroat Trout
Restoration
To write a restoration plan
that directs a course of action of facilitate
the nature movement of westslope cutthroat trout
and (potentially) bull trout in Skalkaho Creek.
American Bird Conservancy
(MT)
Ponderosa Pine restoration on private and public/private
lands in the Selway-Bitterroot Ecosystem
To
identify ponderosa stands within the Selway-Bitterroot
complex that meet priority bird species and habitat
requirements identified within the North American
Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) conservation
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