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Timberdoodle Stewardship Project (Virginia)

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Agreement Narrative: Timberdoodle Stewardship Project  Primary Funder: USDA Forest Service Location: Clinch Ranger District, George Washington & Jefferson National Forest (GW-Jeff) Innovation: This project is a stewardship agreement between RGS & AWS and the GW-Jeff. The project is designed to improve forest health and create and enhance wildlife habitat, with special emphasis toward ruffed grouse. Active forest management activities include creation of early successional and open forest habitat through commercial timber harvest, manual post-harvest clearing to promote hardwood seedling development, management of wildlife fields, nonnative invasive plant control, and other activities as authorized by the Decision Notice for the Turkey Cove Ruffed Grouse...

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Sugar Creek Stewardship SPA (North Carolina)

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Agreement Narrative: Sugar Creek Stewardship SPA Primary Funder: Nantahala National Forest (Stewardship) Location: Nantahala Ranger District, Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina Innovation: Repackaging timber sale that previously went no-bid when offered as a conventional timber sale contract. Commercial timber harvests will create young and open forest conditions. Service work items include noncommercial habitat improvements such as thinning to promote hardwood saplings in middle-aged forests, wildlife field maintenance, nonnative invasive plant control, and roadside wildlife fields. The sale includes aerial logging operations, so there will be a need to support advanced timber harvesting systems in the project.  Impact: The stewardship project will generate the following...

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Dynamic Forest Restoration in Southwest Virginia

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Agreement Narrative: Dynamic Forest Restoration in Southwest Virginia  Primary Funder: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)– Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program Location: Southwest Virginia Innovation: RGS & AWS and our partners will implement active forest management that results in a mosaic of mixed-aged forests that support a diversity of songbird and wildlife species on state and private lands in southwest Virginia. We will create a Dynamic Forest Restoration Block (DFRB) focal area to diversify habitat on Channels State Forest, Hidden Valley WMA, and Clinch Mountain WMA, and surrounding private lands. Primary objectives of the project include: 1) perform conservation planning to develop a DFRB,...

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Georgia Forest Wildlife Specialist

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Agreement Narrative: Georgia Forest Wildlife Specialist  Primary Funder: Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Turner Foundation Location: Chattahoochee National Forest, Gainesville, Georgia  Innovation: This agreement establishes a partnership between the Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS), Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the U.S. Forest Service to address the need for increased active forest management on the Chattahoochee National Forest. This agreement will provide funding to RGS & AWS to hire a Forest Wildlife Specialist to help plan and implement active forest management projects in the Chattahoochee National Forest. This position will be based in Gainesville in the Chattahoochee...

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Determining Management Strategies to Increase Preferred Habitat for Ruffed Grouse and Associated Wildlife Species (Kentucky)

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Agreement Narrative: Determining Management Strategies to Increase Preferred Habitat for Ruffed Grouse and Associated Wildlife Species    Primary Funder: USDA Forest Service  Location: Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky  Innovation: This project will thin non-merchantable timber in overstocked stands to reduce hazardous fuel loading and to perform site preparation to create young forest habitat, improve wildlife habitat,  and increase recreational opportunities. We will develop a Dynamic Forest Restoration Block (DFRB) focal area on Daniel Boone National Forest, implement baseline monitoring of vegetative conditions and wildlife populations, complete a logging plan analysis for the DFRB, complete a productivity and margin job analysis for logging contracting, collaborate with...

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Collaboration to Maintain, Restore, and Enhance Forest Conditions and Wildlife Habitat on the National Forests in Georgia

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Agreement Narrative: Collaboration to Maintain, Restore, and Enhance Forest Conditions and Wildlife Habitat on the National Forests in Georgia   Primary Funder: USDA Forest Service  Location: Chattahoochee National Forest, Gainesville, Georgia  Innovation: This is a modification to our existing challenge cost-share supplemental project agreement with the Chattahoochee National Forest. The Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) and the Chattahoochee National Forest will collaborate on efforts to implement active forest management treatments in the Fightingtown Creek Project on the Conasauga Ranger District of the Chattahoochee National Forest. We will collaborate on issues relating to sustainable forest management, forest health and ecosystem...

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