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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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North Fork of Pound Prescribed Burn  (Virginia)

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Agreement Narrative: North Fork of Pound Prescribed Burn  Primary Funder: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Location: Clinch Ranger District, George Washington & Jefferson National Forest, Wise County, VA Innovation: The project provided funding to the Forest Service to complete a high-priority prescribed fire in the North Fork of Pound Special Area, covering over 5,000 acres. The burn was a second entry, and it accomplished its goal of maintaining the canopy gaps that were created during the prior burn and consuming ground fuels. This promotes early successional herbaceous and brushy species as well as fire-adapted tree species such as oaks and yellow pines. This project...

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Big Wild Habitat Improvement Project (Michigan)

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Agreement Narrative: Big Wild Habitat Improvement Project Primary Funder: Michigan Wildlife Habitat Grant Program (WH23-160) Location: Pigeon River Country State Forest, Michigan Innovation: As a continuation in a long-standing partnership between RGS & AWS and the Pigeon River Country State Forest (PRCSF) working together to directly affect habitat within the forest, this project aims to improve multiple cover-types and access issues with a variety of different strategies.  By improving and maintaining forest openings and trails, introducing wildlife forage with the planting of soft-mass trees, creating early successional habitat, and working with the PRCSF to aid their prescribed burn program in a large complect...

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Project Planning Support for the George Washington & Jefferson National Forest (Virginia)

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Agreement Narrative: Project Planning Support for the George Washington & Jefferson National Forest  Primary Funder: USDA Forest Service (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds) Location: Clinch Ranger District, George Washington & Jefferson National Forest (GWJEFF) Innovation: This project increase capacity for planning active forest management projects to restore forest habitat conditions at large landscape scales on National Forest System lands in Virginia. RGS & AWS will collaborate with the GWJEFF to have our Forest Wildlife Specialists and Forest Wildlife Technicians develop a pipeline of active forest management projects to feed into the Forest Service’s National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) planning process. RGS & AWS foresters...

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Helderberg Forest Resiliency Initiative  US Forest Service Landscape Restoration Grant (New York)

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Primary Funder: New York Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) – Conservation Innovation Grant Funding Amount: $110,000 Project Title: Helderberg Forest Resiliency Initiative  US Forest Service Landscape Restoration Grant Location: Towns of Berne, Knox, Westerlo and Rensselaerville, Albany County NY and Broome, Wright, Schoharie & Middleburgh, Schoharie County, surrounding the 6,594-acre Helderberg Bird Conservation Area which includes Patridge Run State Forest, Partridge Run WMA, Knox (Burke) WMA, and Cole Hill State Forest.  Innovation: The Helderberg Forest Resiliency Initiative (HFRI) will help launch a dynamic forest restoration block across public and private land ownerships surrounding the Helderberg Bird Conservation Area in Albany & Schoharie Counties, New...

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Copper Country Habitat Restoration Project (Michigan)

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Agreement Narrative: Copper Country Habitat Restoration Project MOD01 Primary Funder: Ottawa National Forest  Location: Kenton Ranger District, Ottawa National Forest, Michigan Innovation: This cost-share agreement allows for the funding of an RGS-employed project coordinator who works with USFS staff to implement forest management projects on the Ottawa NF. This is mutually beneficial as it allows for RGS to implement on-the-ground habitat projects while assisting the often-understaffed Ottawa NF wildlife management division to implement goals outlined within the forest’s management plan.  2023 MOD Update: In 2023, working with the Ottawa NF, a Modification that added $262,622.83 in Great Lakes Restoration funding extended the employment of...

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