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 National Forest. That implementation plan will include acres that will be treated commercially, acres to be treated non-commercially, and the recommendations for road maintenance/rehabilitation to move non-commercial acres towards being commercially treated. Commercial sales will have the ability to add stewardship timber dollars eventually.
Impact: Approximately 1,230 acres of analysis of no-bid timber sales with equal amount of prescribed actions (commercial harvest, non-commercial timber felling, supplemental planting, site preparation, no treatment)
Partners: Consulting Foresters, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
