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Restoring Forest Habitat for Wildlife in the Cumberland Plateau (Kentucky, Tennessee)

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Agreement Narrative: Restoring Forest Habitat for Wildlife in the Cumberland Plateau (KY, TN)  Primary Funder: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation- Cumberland Plateau Stewardship Fund  Location: Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Kentucky Innovation: Over the course of two years, our project will improve forest habitat conditions in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky. We will use active forest management techniques to enhance the diversity of trees and structures within these forests, with a specific focus on benefiting wildlife species that are at risk. Our efforts will be concentrated in the northeastern Freshwater and Terrestrial Focal Area identified by the National Fish and...

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Agreement for Recipient to Complete EQIP Eligible Forest Management Plans to Landowners in the Southeastern Part of Kentucky

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Agreement Narrative: Agreement for recipient to complete EQIP eligible forest management plans to landowners in the southeastern part of KY. Primary Funder: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Kentucky (NRCS-KY) Location: Eastern Kentucky (Barbourville, Kentucky) Innovation: The main objectives of this agreement are to increase the numbers of private landowners with forest management plans in the southeastern part of Kentucky. Increasing the availability of young forest habitat is an important conservation action necessary for reversing the decline of multiple at-risk wildlife in the region, including ruffed grouse, American woodcock, golden-winged warbler, and Appalachian cottontail. The goal is to reverse downward population trends through active...

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2021 Grouse Habitat Improvements on Cold Mountain Game Land and the Roaring Creek Tract of Pisgah Game Land (North Carolina)

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Agreement Narrative: 2021 Grouse Habitat Improvements on Cold Mountain Game Land and the Roaring Creek Tract of Pisgah Game Land.  Primary Funder: North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) Location: Western North Carolina Innovation: Our project will increase capacity to conserve ruffed grouse and other “Species of Greatest Conservation Need” identified in the North Carolina State Wildlife Action Plan through forest habitat management. The Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) will restore habitat diversity (structure and age-class) at biologically significant landscape scales. In addition to reversing declining grouse and other wildlife numbers, the holistic...

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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: Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR)  Location: Chattahoochee National Forest, Gainesville, Georgia  Innovation: The Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society (RGS & AWS) and Georgia DNR 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 restoration, the role of working forests in climate change adaptation and mitigation, ruffed grouse and American...

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Southern Blue Ridge Prescribed Burn Association (North Carolina)

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Agreement Narrative: Southern Blue Ridge Prescribed Burn Association   Primary Funder: Coalitions & Collaboratives, Inc. (COCO) Location: Western North Carolina Innovation: Our project will increase prescribed burning and reduce wildfire risk with private landowners in western North Carolina by engaging private landowners and coordinating a prescribed burn association (PBA). Our Southern Blue Ridge PBA will decrease the obstacles for private landowners to implement burns on their forest land by providing training opportunities, education and outreach events, providing shared personnel, materials, supplies, and equipment, and working with partner organizations and contractors to construct firebreaks, prepare prescribed burn plans, and implement prescribed burns on private lands....

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Restoring Young Oak Forests in the Nantahala Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina

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Agreement Narrative: Restoring Young Oak Forests in the Nantahala Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina  Primary Funder: American Forests Location: Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina Innovation: Our project will restore young oak forests by implementing a noncommercial habitat improvement treatment on the Nantahala Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest. The habitat improvement treatment will thin smaller diameter trees in the forest to help establish oak seedlings in the understory. This treatment will be completed in advance of a commercial timber harvest. Once the oak seedlings develop on the forest floor, a commercial timber harvest will release them and create...

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