2008 MAP AWARDS - Round 1

Arizona Wildlife Federation (AZ)
Anderson Mesa Wetlands Restoration Project Phase III
Coconino National Forest
To implement the third phase of restoration and protection efforts for 5 key wetlands on the Coconino National Forest, including construction of approximately 8 miles of enhanced exclosure fence.
http://www.azwildlife.org

Boy Scouts of America-Order of the Arrow (TX)
ArrowCorps5
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson & Bridger-Teton National Forests
To implement conservation projects on three National Forests as part of a national conservation service project on five sites over five weeks involving 5,000 volunteers.
http://www.event.oa-bsa.org

City WILD (CO)
2008 Youth in Service Project
Pike-San Isabel National Forest
To address the issue of human impact on recreation on the Pike-San Isabel National Forest near the communities of Buena Vista, Salida & Alma by improving the condition of high use sections of public lands.
http://www.citywild.org

East Piedmont Resource Conservation & Development (SC)
Indian Creek Wildlife Habitat Restoration Initiative
Sumter National Forest
To improve forest health and wildlife habitat. The primary objective is to improve habitat for species that depend on grasslands and similar habitats while providing education and improving recreation.
http://www.eastpiedmontrcd.com

Forest Guild (NM)
Youth Conservation Corps
Cibola, Carson, Gila, and Santa Fe National Forests
To implement a comprehensive set of natural resource conservation projects involving 48 youth from 7 different counties on six different Ranger Districts in New Mexico.
http://www.forestguild.org

Four Corners School of Outdoor Education (UT)
Canyon Country Youth Corps
Manti La Sal National Forest
To run an employment, conservation education and leadership program for at-risk Navajo youth from 11 high schools in N. Arizona, NW New Mexico SE Utah.
http://www.fourcornersschool.org

Friends of Nevada Wilderness (NV)
NV Roadless Area Stewardship Project
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
To identify on-the-ground conservation projects in and adjacent to National Forest lands where our volunteers will complete restoration projects that will benefit the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
http://www.nevadawilderness.org

Friends of the Columbia Gorge (OR)
Cape Horn Stewardship and Restoration
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
To bring together five nonprofits and government agencies to restore and enhance natural areas in the Cape Horn area of the Columbia River Gorge, preparing the area to be opened as a top-quality public recreation destination.
http://www.gorgefriends.org

Gallatin Valley Land Trust (MT)
Drinking Horse Mountain Interpretive Trail
Gallatin National Forest
To build an interpretive trail on USFS and USFWS land and offer four-season hiking and environmental education for a projected 20,000 users per year.
http://www.gvlt.org

Grand Canyon Trust (AZ)
Wildlife Habitat Restoration and Rehabilitation on the Kaibab Plateau
Kaibab National Forest
To work with the Forest Service, Arizona Game and Fish Department and other stakeholders to implement two science-based citizen-supported and rigorously monitored wildlife habitat restoration initiatives on the Kaibab Plateau.
http://www.grandcanyontrust.org

Great Burn Study Group (MT)
2008 Forest Stewards Project
Lolo and Clearwater National Forests
To directly improve wildlife habitat, gather data on carnivores, and monitor and mitigate recreational impacts on five forest districts in Montana and Idaho in conjunction with rangers on the Lolo and Clearwater National Forests.

Henry's Fork Foundation (ID)
Buffalo River Outmigration Fish Trap
Caribou-Targhee National Forest
To install an out-migrant fish trap for the trapping, identification and enumeration of fish form the Buffalo River to determine its contribution to the world-renowned Henry's Fork fishery.
http://www.henrysfork.org

I-90 Wildlife Bridge Coalition (WA)
Cascade Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project
Wenatchee-Okanogan, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forests
To conduct citizen monitoring of wildlife on national forest lands in the I-90 corridor and core habitat of the North Cascades through snow tracking and remote cameras to record key connectivity zones and presence of rare species.

International Mountain Bicycling Association (CO)
Sulphur Ranger District Trails
Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests
To improve the sustainability of trails in the sensitive alpine valley to better protect sensitive plant resources and provide enhanced recreation experience in the front/backcountry interface lands.
http://www.imba.com

Montana Conservation Corps (MT)
Woods Gulch Recreation Stewardship Project
Lolo National Forest
To relocate a portion of the Three Larch Trail and construct 1.8 miles of new trail to form a loop beginning and ending in Woods Gulch. The goal is to eliminate user conflict and protect the resource in this heavily used area.
http://www.mtcorps.org

Montana Discovery Foundation (MT)
Youth Forest Monitoring Project
Helena and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forests
To implement an intensive 7-week summer internship for high school students, supplementing forest health monitoring, including specific studies in areas of the 2007 wildfires, mine reclamation and weeds.
http://www.montanadiscoveryfoundation.org

Montana State University Office of Sponsored Programs (MT)
What's in Your World? Weed Removal Pilot Project
Gallatin National Forest
To protect winter range in roadless wilderness from noxious weed impacts, youth groups will improve recreation resources on three trails, one campground and three natural areas in communities adjacent to Bozeman Ranger District.
http://www.montana.edu

Moosalamoo Association (VT)
Mooslamoo NRA Stewardship Project
Green Mountain National Forest
To continue the Stewardship Initiative in the Moosalamoo NRA, completing habitat enhancements, recreational enhancements and watershed restoration projects
http://www.mooslamoo.org

Mount St. Helens Institute (WA)
More Volunteers in the Woods
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
To recruit and train 500 volunteers to work on conservation projects on the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
http://www.mshinsitute.org

Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust (WA)
South Fork Snoqualmie River Road Decommissioning
Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
To kick-off the removal of more than 50 miles of abandoned forest roads improving environmental conditions, decreasing the USFS's extensive road network and increasing recreational access through road-to-trail conversions.
http://www.mtsgreenway.org

Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition (WA)
CNF Disabled Hunter Access Project
Colville National Forest
To enhance and expand the Disabled Hunter Access Program on the Colville National Forest.
http://www.newforestrycoalition.org

Northeastern Nevada Stewardship Group (NV)
Harrison Pass Fire Rehabilitation Project
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
To plant between 2,000 and 5,000 bitterbrush seedlings and hand broadcast native grass seed for wildlife habitat restoration on the Harrison fire which burned critical mule deer winter range and livestock forage.
http://www.nnsg.org

Northern Rocky Mountain RC&D (MT)
Protecting our National Forests through hazardous fuels reduction in our wildland urban interface
Gallatin and Lewis and Clark National Forests
To educate and provide funding to homeowners who live adjacent to our National Forests that are doing hazardous fuels mitigation, resulting in healthier forests, protection of our forest systems and firefighters.
http://www.nrmrcd.org

Northwest Youth Corps (OR)
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Wildlife Enhancement 2008
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
To involve up to 204 individuals in projects within the National Forest, completing 7,344 project hours of deferred maintenance on the trails systems and reduce human impact on endangered Marbled Murrelet and the Spotted Owl.
http://www.nwyouthcorps.org

Oregon Trout (OR)
Salmon River Side Channel Restoration
Mt. Hood National Forest
To restore critical stream habitat and water quality by returning year-round flow and riparian vegetation to dewatered side channels, benefiting National Forest lands and anadromous salmon and steelhead in the Sandy River basin.
http://www.ortrout.org

Partnership for Youth dba AmeriCorps St. Louis (MO)
Beaverhead-Deerlodge Recreation Enhancement-Riparian Protection Project
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
To continue the upgrade of 75 miles of degraded trails over at least 3 ranger districts, support protection work in 2 municipal watershed, help with restoration of a congressionally designated rec. area, and reduce noxious weeds and hazard trees.
http://www.americorps-stl.org

Red Rock Forests (UT)
Route Inventory, Travel Signs and Restoration in the Abajos
Manti-La Sal National Forest
To conduct year two of a travel corridor and dispersed campsite inventory in the Abajo Mountains of SE Utah and work with the local Ranger District to implement riparian restoration projects to curtail unauthorized off-road trail expansion and use.
http://www.redrockforests.org

Rocky Mountain Field Institute (CO)
Glen Cove Wetland Restoration Project
Pike National Forest
To complete restoration of an alpine wetland and its drainage basin that have been severely impacted by sedimentation and erosion caused by storm water runoff from the Pikes Peak Highway.
http://www.rmfi.org

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (GA)
Uwharrie Trail Restoration Maintenance, Realignment and Construction
Uwharrie National Forest
To redesign and retrofit the 15-mile Wood run trail system, a popular mountain bike trail designation, and to make this trail system a regional model for sustainable trail design and construction.
http://www.sorba.org

Southwest Conservation Corps (AZ)
Sabino Canyon Restoration
Coronado National Forest
To rehabilitate nonmotorized trails in the popular Sabino Basin Watershed of the Santa Catalina Ranger District on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.
http://www.sccorps.org

Sugar Pine Foundation (CA)
White Pine Restoration
Humboldt-Toiyabe, Tahoe, and El Dorado National Forests
To plant white pine blister rust resistant seedlings, collect seed from candidate trees for resistance screening and collect seed from proven resistant trees.
http://www.sugarpinefoundation.org

Superior Watershed Partnership (MI)
Non Native invasive plant control in wilderness and recreation areas
Hiawatha National Forest
To implement a community based approach to controlling nonnative invasive plants in Wilderness Areas of the Hiawatha National Forest including mapping and removal of priority non-native invasive plants along existing trails and roads.
http://www.superiorwatersheds.org

Trout Unlimited-New River Valley Chapter (VA)
Stony Creek Watershed Restoration Project
Washington and Jefferson National Forests
To restore a degraded section of a high quality coldwater stream by implementing practices such as bank stabilization, instream habitat construction and riparian restoration.
http://www.tu.org

Turtle Lake Association (MN)
Control of Purple Loosestrife and Management of Lakeshore Habitat
Chippewa National Forest
To implement an integrated, cooperative management plan to control purple loosestrife and improve aquatic habitat on Turtle Lake and other nearby lakes within the Chippewa NF.

Upper Sacramento River Exchange (CA)
Native Plant Propagation and Restoration Project
Shasta Trinity National Forest
To propagate native plants at the USFS greenhouse with community volunteers and conduct revegetation field trips at three high public use project sites in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
http://www.riverexchange.org

Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (CO)
2008 VOC USFS Projects
Uncompahgre, Pike, and Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests
To implement seven conservation projects on USFS lands, including Clear Creek, South Platte, Ouray, South Park and Sulphur Ranger Districts.
http://www.voc.org

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (PA)
Restoration Initiatives in the Spring Creek Watershed
Allegheny National Forest
To reduce stream sedimentation through limestoning road approaches, reconstructing road crossings, and hardening parking in key impact areas, to decommission degraded campsites and to remove fish passage barriers.
http://www.paconserve.org

Wild South (AL)
Protection and Restoration of National Forest lands in the South
Bankhead National Forest
To continue three conservation efforts monitoring forest restoration, mapping canyons and helping hands projects of trash collection, restoring endangered glades, developing short trails and killing invasive species on adjacent lands.
http://www.wildsouth.org

Wildlands Restoration Volunteers (CO)
WRV 2008 Partnership for Stewardship
Arapaho-Roosevelt and Pike-San Isabel National Forests
To engage over 980 volunteers in 21 important habitat restoration and trail projects on northern Colorado, fostering community involvement in the stewardship and restoration of local forests, streams, wetlands, wildlife habitat and trails.
http://www.wlrv.org

Yaak Valley Forest Council (MT)
2008 Headwaters Restoration Project
Kootenai National Forest
To protect and restore aquatic and terrestrial habitat in the Yaak watershed through road decommissioning, revegetation, stream stabilization, and monitoring with an emphasis on strengthening native fish populations
http://www.yaakvalley.org

Youth Restoration Corps (AK)
YRC Central Peninsula 2008 Program
Chugach National Forest
To restore fish and wildlife habitat and complete trail maintenance projects on the Chugach NF by involving youth and adult supervisors in projects.
http://www.youthrestorationcorps.org