CENTRAL
COLORADO ROCKIES
Eagle County Youth
Conservation Corps (CO)
Eagle County's Youth Land Stewardship Program
White River NF
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.
www.eagle-county.com
Colorado Fourteeners
Initiative (CO)
2003 Partnership for Preservation Arapaho-Roosevelt,
Pike-San Isabel NF
To
coordinate a community-based effort to protect
and preserve the ecosystems of Colorado?s 14,000-foot
peaks in order to mitigate human impacts in these
fragile ecosystems.
www.14ers.org
Wildlands Restoration
Volunteers (CO)
WRV 2003 Restoration Projects on the ARNF Arapaho-Roosevelt
NF
To engage
nearly 400 adult and youth volunteers in a variety
of important restoration and trail projects at
twelve ARNF sites.
www.wlrv.org
Volunteers for Outdoor
Colorado (CO)
VOC 2003 USFS Partnership Projects Pike-San Isabel,
Arapaho-Roosevelt NF
To
involve more than 730 volunteers in the completion
of five high priority projects that share a diverse
array of community, economic, recreation and conservation
benefits.
www.voc.org
Headwaters Trails
Alliance (CO)
National Public Lands Day 2003 Arapaho-Roosevelt
NF
To bring
together volunteers from several community partners
for a one-day event to benefit USFS lands and
recreation. Several multi-use trails will be maintained
and reconstructed to improve overall quality as
part of this event.
www.headwaterstrails.com
Roaring Fork Outdoor
Volunteers (CO)
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers? 2003 Projects
White River NF
To
involve more than 225 volunteers in the completion
of three trail restoration projects on the White
River National Forest to help foster a sense of
stewardship for public land in the citizens of
the Roaring Fork community.
www.rfov.org
MULTIPLE SITES
Tamarisk Coalition
(CO)
Tamarisk Control Equipment White River, Grand
Mesa, Uncompahgre, Gunnison NF
To purchase newly developed, specialized equipment
to remove the damaging invasive shrub by hand
and to make the equipment available at cost to
private landowners, municipalities, counties,
and state and federal agencies to significantly
reduce the cost of treatment per acre.
www.tamariskcoalition.org
Student Conservation
Association (CO, OR, MT)
SCA Fire Education Corps Arapaho/Roosevelt, Pike/San
Isabel, Deschutes, Bitterroot NF
To
expand and strengthen the Fire Education Corps-a
national initiative to educate homeowners and
communities about wildland fire danger, home fire
protection, and defensible space.
www.sca-inc.org
National Network
of Forest Practitioners (OR, MT, NC)
Building Community Capacity for Community-Based
Forest Stewardship
To strengthen the capacity of the people, organizations,
and businesses that practice community-based forest
stewardship to solve problems, experiment with
new approaches, compete in the marketplace, and
work collaboratively with the FS. NNFP will hold
meetings and workshops and conduct peer training
with practitioners as part of this project.
www.nnfp.org
Continental Divide
Trail Alliance (Regions 1,2,3,4)
2003 CDTA Public Outreach and Leadership Development
To significantly increase public knowledge, involvement,
and leadership in CDTA activities through the
implementation of Trailfest 2003, public presentations,
websites, and the development of a CDTA affiliation
program.
www.cdtrail.org
OREGON COASTAL/CENTRAL
CASCADES
Oregon Youth Conservation
Corps (OR)
Central Oregon Youth Community Corps-Summer 2003
Deschutes NF, Ochoco NF, Crooked River NG
To provide twenty-one youth with the opportunity
to participate in a specially designed work-learn
program that focuses on environmental stewardship
work and leadership training.
www.oycc.state.or.us
Siuslaw Watershed
Council (OR)
Roache Creek Stream and Wetland Restoration Siuslaw
NF
To restore
1425 feet of stream and fence and reforest 15.4
acres of riparian area, as well as replace three
fish passage culverts with one improved culvert.
www.siuslaw.org
Crooked River Watershed
Council (OR)
McKay Creek Stream Restoration and Natural Channel
Establishment Ochoco/Deschutes NF
To
restore proper function to 2 miles of McKay Creek
through channel reconstruction, installation of
instream habitat structures, riparian fencing,
and extensive riparian planting.
www.deschuteswatersheds.org/crwc/
OUTSIDE
FOCUS AREAS
EarthCorps (WA)
Urban-Rural Youth Stewardship Initiative Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie
NF
To promote
the long-term stewardship of our natural resources
through an urban/rural context, creating a program
that brings urban, rural, and suburban youth together
to restore natural spaces.
www.earthcorps.org
Midtown Neighborhood
Association (WI)
Lynden Hill Reforestation Plan
To prepare a reforestation and forest management
plan, implement the first phase of reforestation,
and develop and present an educational module
for community inner-city youth.
Watershed Research
& Training Center (CA)
Hayfork Backcountry Volunteer Trails Program Shasta-Trinity
NF
To restore
the Southfork National Recreation Trail and other
trails in the Yolla Bolla Wilderness Area through
both local and regional volunteer and youth efforts.
These projects will promote expanded recreational
opportunities as well as necessary fuels reduction.
www.thewatershedcenter.org
Wallowa Resources
(OR)
Salt Creek Sno-Park Multi-Purpose Building Wallowa
Whitman NF
To
construct a one-story multi-purpose building at
Salt Creek Summit Sno-Park to provide a focal
point for winter sports in the North Zone on the
Wallowa Whitman National Forest. Utilize locally
available small-diameter logs, and new construction
technology, to promote new uses for this by-product
of watershed restoration and fuels reduction treatments.
www.wallowaresources.org
Green Mountain Club
(VT)
Bromley Mountain Shelter and Trail Relocation
Green Mountain NF
To
close and rehabilitate old backcountry campsites
and hiking trails while building a new shelter
and trail that will mitigate user conflicts and
protect surrounding water quality.
www.greenmountainclub.org
SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
American
Chestnut Foundation (NC, TN)
American Chestnut Restoration Pisgah, Nantahala,
Cherokee NF
To
complete the inventory, pollination, planting,
and education related to the restoration of the
American chestnut to Southern Appalachian forests.
TACF will also network with other organizations
in the region, including colleges and Federal,
state and private forestry groups, to organize
re-planting within the next decade.
www.acf.org
Friends of the Festival,
Inc. (TN)
Ocoee River Days Cherokee NF
To
educate thousands about forest conservation and
stimulate year-round regional visitation to the
Ocoee Whitewater Center through Ocoee River Days,
a unique festival that is helping to stimulate
the regional economy.
www.riverbendfestival.com
Johnson County Trails
Committee (TN, VA)
Laurel Creek Trail Project Cherokee, George Washington-Jefferson
NF
To create
a 6-mile multi-purpose trail in two adjoining
national forests designed to provide enhanced
recreational opportunities to rural, economically
challenged communities.
Union County Commission
(GA)
Walking Trail Chattahoochee NF
To
expand and augment an existing walking trail to
accommodate increased recreational use.
www.unioncounty.gov
Trout Unlimited (NC)
Linville Watershed Project Pisgah NF
To restore aquatic and riparian habitats in the
Linville River watershed and return a self-sustaining
brook trout fishery to the watershed.
www.tu.org
Georgia ForestWatch
(GA)
Old Growth Survey and Outreach Program Chattahoochee
NF
To gather
valuable Old Growth data for the Chattahoochee
National Forest using staff and volunteers,
and to launch an outreach and community support
program with a 'hands-on' approach.
www.gafw.org
SELWAY/BITTERROOT COMPLEX (MT, ID)
Bitter Root Land Trust (MT)
2003 Interface Initiative Bitterroot NF
To
use the mechanism of conservation easements to
reduce the number of homes in the residential-wildland
interface and to promote fire-resistant construction,
landscaping and forest management practices.
www.bitterrootlandtrust.org
Framing Our Community
(ID)
Ragg Station Trail Restoration Nez Perce NF
To provide community
members with 'hands-on' forest management skills
while assisting the Forest Service, the Bureau
of Land Management, and private landowners
with needed watershed restoration, fuels reduction,
urban interface and forest restoration.
Montana Trout, Inc.
(MT)
Pattee Creek Renaturalization Lolo NF
To
create optimal habitat conditions for native westslope
cutthroat trout by renaturalizing the stream channel
of Pattee Creek, which empties into the Bitterroot
River.
Clearwater Basin
Weed Management Area (ID)
Early Detection and Inventory of Invasive Weeds
in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Nez Perce,
Clearwater NF
To
implement a systematic and consistent approach
to invasive plant surveys in the Selway-Bitterroot
Wilderness and to use the collected data as a
first step toward an effective management strategy
for the river basis.
Montana Audubon (MT)
Cavity-Nesting Bird Survey and Fire Ecology Education
Bitterroot NF
To
involve citizen scientists in establishing long-term
research and monitoring surveys for cavity-nesting
birds in salvage-logged vs. unlogged post-fire
habitat in the Bitterroot National Forest.
www.mtaudubon.org
National Wildlife
Federation (ID, MT)
Habitat Sanitation for Bears in the Bitterroot
Ecosystem Bitterroot, Clearwater, Nez Perce NF
To improve sanitation
of human refuse in and near National Forest lands
in the west prior to the return of grizzly bears
to the Bitterroot ecosystem.
www.nwf.org |
