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Black Duck Ranger Distric Stewardship (Minnesota)

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Agreement Narrative: Black Duck Ranger District Stewardship Primary Funder: Chippewa National Forest (Stewardship) Location: Black Duck Ranger District, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota Innovation: A classic commercial timber project integrated with forest wildlife habitat, forest health and forest products/ revenue objectives. Through U.S. Forest Service goods-for-services stewardship, the foundational commercial timber project produces patches of aspen age class diversity for forest health and wildlife habitat objectives plus timber revenue. Revenue is to be used to facilitate additional habitat and forest health enhancement work and prepare additional commercial timber sales. Impact: Sale and contract administration of 83-acre “Hunter Walking Trail” timber sale. Timber harvest operations were...

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Deer River Ranger District Stewardship (Minnesota)

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Agreement Narrative: Deer River Ranger District Stewardship Primary Funder: Chippewa National Forest (Stewardship) Location: Deer River Ranger District, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota Innovation: A classic commercial timber project integrated with forest wildlife habitat, forest health, and forest products/ revenue objectives. Through U.S. Forest Service goods-for-services stewardship, the foundational commercial timber project produces patches of aspen age class diversity for forest health and wildlife habitat objectives plus timber revenue. Revenue is to be used to facilitate additional habitat and forest health enhancement work and prepare additional commercial timber sales. Impact: Sale and contract administration of 78-acre “Johnson Lake” Timber Sale. Timber harvest operations were completed...

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Protection/Enhancement of Public Land Forest Habitats Through Strategic Acquisition of Private Land Inholdings (Minnesota)

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Agreement Narrative: Protection/Enhancement of Public Land Forest Habitats Through Strategic Acquisition of Private Land InholdingsPrimary Funder: Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Fund through Lessard Sams Outdoor Heritage Council (LSOHC) Location: Northern Minnesota.  Northern Forest Ecoregion. Innovation: Increase existing public land management efficiency and effectiveness as well as public recreational access through strategic private land inholdings acquisition. Acquisition of private lands and transfer to adjoining public land manager will be pursued where best management and access routes are inhibited by private land inholdings and where consistency in landscape scale management can be improved.  Investment in public land acquisitions of large forested tracks in northern MN have received...

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Moose Habitat Collaborative, Phase IV – Northeast Minnesota Forest Habitat Enhancement

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Agreement Narrative: Moose Habitat Collaborative, Phase IV – NE MN Forest Habitat EnhancementPrimary Funder: Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Fund through Lessard Sams Outdoor Heritage Council Location: NE Minnesota- Cook, Lake and Saint Louis Counties Innovation: A landscape scale forest habitat enhancement project which primarily focuses on enhancement of moose habitat needs, where individual projects within the large landscape focus area are proposed, vetted and then implemented through partners in the collaborative group.  Treatments are primarily focused on increasing forest age, species and spatial diversity at large scales which also deliberately and incidentally accomplish spruce grouse, ruffed grouse, American woodcock and forest health objectives. ...

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Ruffed Grouse Society Great Divide Stewardship (Wisconsin)

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Agreement Narrative: Ruffed Grouse Society Great Divide Stewardship Primary Funder: Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest (Stewardship) Location: Great Divide Ranger District, Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin Innovation: This is a non-timber short-form stewardship agreement. Through this short-form agreement, the USFS is providing RGS & AWS with Bipartisan Infrastructure (BIL) funding to evaluate and assess no-bid timber sale payment units on the Great Divide Ranger District of the Chequamegon National Forest. Using this funding, RGS & AWS will contract the assessment of no-bid timber sales out to a consulting forestry company. Using these assessments, RGS & AWS will develop an implementation plan to present to the Chequamegon-Nicolet...

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2020 Chippewa National Forest Shared Stewardship Agreement – Black Duck​ (Minnesota)

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January 4th, 2022; Cass Lake Minnesota – Timber harvesting is underway on RGS/AWS’s first National Forest Shared Stewardship project. This is the same project we highlighted in our Winter 2021 issue of Covers Magazine. In that article, we highlighted how Shared Stewardship projects are an integral part of RGS/AWS’s Model of Working Forests as timber revenue from this sale is being reinvested into additional work on the forest and impacts are being compounded. To date, 97 miles of hunter walking trails have been improved and 10 new gates have been installed on 10 different hunter walking trails, impacting multiple ranger districts...

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