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East Zone Forest Habitat Management Project, Lemonade Timber Sale (Minnesota)

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Agreement Narrative: East Zone Forest Habitat Management Project, Lemonade Timber Sale Primary Funder: Chippewa National Forest (Stewardship) Location: Deer River Ranger District, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota Innovation: This is a non-timber short-form stewardship agreement. Through this short-form agreement, the U.S. Forest Service is providing RGS & AWS with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding to conduct supplemental timber marking contracting on the Deer River Ranger District of the Chippewa National Forest. The specific timber marking project areas land on a portion of the forest within the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe (LLBO) Reservation. Using this funding, RGS & AWS will likely contract a tribal...

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Arrowhead Collaborative Coordinator Challenge Cost Share (Minnesota)

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Agreement Narrative: Arrowhead Collaborative Coordinator Challenge Cost Share Primary Funder: Superior National Forest – Bipartisan Infrastructure Law  Location: Superior National Forest, Minnesota  Innovation: Leveraging Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funding with Forest Service Match and RGS & AWS match, this agreement will add an RGS & AWS staff position in the northeast arrowhead region of MN. This staff position will step in to take the reins of the existing Arrowhead Forest Habitat Collaborative as the acting Coordinator of Federal, State, County, Private Lands, and NGO partners. Through cooperative planning, this position will also focus partner efforts to advance impacts.  Impact: Within a 500,000 acre multi-agency...

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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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