CityWild
Rocky Mountain Youth Outreach Collaborative
San Isabel NF (CO)
To engage at-risk youth from the Denver area in service learning through campsite clean-ups, trail maintenance, meadow restoration and stream bank restoration.
www.cityWILD.org

Coalition for the Upper South Platte
Upper South Platte Watershed Projects
Pike NF (CO)
To coordinate and complete fire recovery and restoration efforts using volunteers to repair the watersheds in the Upper South Platte following the devastating Hayman Wildfire through re-seeding, river restoration and trail restoration.
www.uppersouthplatte.net

MULTIPLE SITES

Sustainable Forestry Board, Inc.
Sustainable Forestry: Principles to Practices
Southern Appalachians, Oregon Coast, Central Cascades, Central Rockies, and Great Lakes (Nationwide)
To improve the management of private and public lands through four regional workshops on sustainable forestry practices for wildlife habitat, watershed restoration and reforestation.
www.aboutsfb.org

Northwest Youth Corps
NYC Cascadia Stewardship Project
Rogue River & Williamette NF (OR)
To train, involve and employ 190 local teenagers in completing priority trail restoration, recreation facility reconstruction, and soil and water conservation activities.
www.nwyouthcorps.org

OREGON COAST AND CENTRAL CASCADES

Applegate River Watershed Council
Applegate Riparian Restoration
Rogue River, Siskiyou NF (OR)
To restore degraded riparian areas downstream of National Forest land. Activities include planting of native conifers and hardwood trees/shrubs, cattle exclusion, fencing installation, and exotic blackberry removal.
www.rvi.net/~arwc/

Upper Deschutes Watershed Council
Tumalo Creek Restoration Project: Phase II
Deschutes NF (OR)
To continue stream restoration on phase II of the 2.8-mile Tumalo Creek Project, including 1.1 miles of restoration to improve hydrologic function and riparian vegetation, reduce erosion and land loss, increase trout populations, and bolster local awareness.
www.deschuteswatersheds.org/udwc

North Umpqua Foundation
FishWatch Camera Project
Umpqua NF (OR)
To provide protection for threatened adult wild steelhead during a difficult time in their lifecycle by providing guardian services and installing a camera guard system.
www.northumpqua.org

OUTSIDE OF FOCUS AREAS

North Country Community Development Center
Local Steering Committee for new WMNF Management Plan
White Mountain NF (NH)
To coordinate and facilitate town select board input into the White Mountain National Forest Management Plan Revision Process in cooperation with 51 rural communities and the USDA Forest Service.
(No website available)

Four Corners Community Behavioral Health, Inc.
The Summer Work Project
Manti-La Sal NF (UT)
To provide employment opportunities and recreational activities to at-risk youth through completion of priority trail rehabilitation projects, removal of invasive species and outdoor education.
www.fourcorners.ws

Equestrian Land Conservation Resource
Trail Trotters
(Nationwide)
To provide a significant boost to equestrian awareness and participation in the stewardship of National Forest lands through outreach and involvement in trail maintenance projects.
www.elcr.org

Yaak Valley Forest Council
Headwaters Restoration Partnership/Callahan Restoration Project
Kootenai NF (MT)
To restore the Callahan Creek drainage as a sub-project of the Yaak Headwaters Restoration Project, involving the decommissioning of 30 miles of degraded logging roads to reduce sediment and improve habitat for threatened redband trout.
(No website available)

Santa Fe Watershed Association
Facilitating Monitoring and Community Outreach
Santa Fe NF (NM)
To facilitate community outreach, education and involvement in the treatment of public lands at high risk for catastrophic wildfire through a combination of prescribed burns and tree thinning, and strengthening of the Technical Advisory Group.
www.santafewatershed.org

Mid/Upper Columbia Regional Fish Enhancement Group
Respect the River
Okanogan, Wenatchee NF (WA)
To restore river habitat at four recreation sites on two national forests through road decommissioning, camp area revegetation, placement of erosion control structures and establishing environmentally-appropriate river access points.
(No website available)

Mendenhall Watershed Partnership
Montana Creek Bank Stabilization Project
Tongass NF (AK)
To protect spawning and rearing habitat for salmon and trout through stabilization and  revegetation of stream banks, reduction of soil erosion and monitoring efforts of volunteers. 
www.mendenhallwatershed.org

SELWAY-BITTERROOT

Montana Birding & Nature Trail Committee
Bitterroot Pilot Project: Phase II
Bitterroot, Lolo NF (MT)
To develop a successful and sustainable statewide birding and nature trail system based on the accomplishments of the Bitterroot Birding and Nature trail project.
www.montanabirdingtrail.org

National Wildlife Federation
Grizzly Bear Habitat Sanitation Project - Phase II
Lolo, Bitterroot NF (MT)
To create a safe environment for bears and humans by installation of bear-proof dumpsters, bear-proof panniers and community outreach and education to avoid bears becoming habituated to garbage and to decrease animal mortality.
www.nwf.org

Montana Audubon
Bitterroot Citizen-Based Monitoring Network
Bitterroot NF (MT)
To designate a series of important bird areas in post-fire landscapes and to increase citizen awareness and involvement in monitoring for post-fire habitat.
www.mtaudubon.org

SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS

Partners of the Cherokee National Forest
Native Plant Restoration
Cherokee NF (TN)
To complete high-priority projects involving the restoration of the American chestnut, Ruth’s Golden Aster and Fraser Fir on 125 acres of the Cherokee National Forest.
www.partnersofthecherokee.org

Chuckey Elementary School
Rocky Top Climb Expansion}
Cherokee NF (TN)
To expand the current simulated life zone areas of the Great Smoky Mountains to include additional trees, to help correct an eroding hill, to make signs identifying each tree, and to create benches in observation areas involving school children and their families.
www.pages.xtn.net/~chuckey/

Land Trust for the Little Tennessee
The Little Tennessee Landscape Conservation Initiative
Nantahala NF (NC)
To link land conservation with forest and watershed restoration in the upper Little Tennessee river basin in partnership with local volunteers. The project buffers federal lands from suburban sprawl and creates riparian habitat corridors.
www.littletennessee.org/landtrust.html

Chattooga Conservancy
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Campaign in the Chattooga River Watershed
Chattahoochee, Nantahala, Sumter NF (GA, NC, SC)
To carry-out extensive field surveys with volunteers in the Chattooga River Watershed to track invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid population “hot spots”, identify release spots for the predator beetle to try to control the problem, and to help monitor results.
www.chattoogariver.org

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
Highlands of Roan Community Land Stewardship Program
Pisgah NF (NC)
To engage local residents in enhancing land management around the globally-rare grassy balds through new relationships with community leaders/private landowners and on-the-ground restoration and habitat-improvement activities on the Roan grassy balds.
www.appalachian.org