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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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Forest Stand Improvements on Public Lands in the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Kentucky

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Agreement Narrative: Forest stand improvements on public lands in the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Kentucky
Primary Funder: The Nature Conservancy
Location: Catoosa Wildlife Management Area (TN) and the London Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest (KY)
Innovation: Our project will restore young oak and pine forests and increase forest habitat diversity in older forests on Catoosa Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tennessee and the London Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. At Catoosa WMA, noncommercial habitat improvements will promote more structurally diverse old forests (i.e., late successional) as a complement to efforts to increase young and…

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Central Appalachia Habitat in Virginia

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Agreement Narrative: Central Appalachia Habitat in VirginiaPrimary Funder: U.S. Endowment for Forestry and CommunitiesLocation: Western VirginiaInnovation: Our project will increase capacity for planning and implementing active forest management projects on state and private lands in western Virginia, with a focus on the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program’s Southwest Virginia and Blue Ridge focal geographies. RGS & AWS will hire a forest wildlife specialist as a partner position with Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (VDWR) to lead efforts on state lands and to coordinate with private landowners near dynamic forest restoration blocks (DFRBs) in western…

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Dynamic Forest Restoration in Western Virginia

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Agreement Narrative: Dynamic Forest Restoration in Western VirginiaPrimary Funder: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship ProgramLocation: Western VirginiaInnovation: Our project will increase capacity for planning and implementing active forest management projects on state and private lands in western Virginia, with a focus on the NFWF’s Central Appalachia Habitat Stewardship Program’s Southwest Virginia and Blue Ridge focal geographies. RGS & AWS will hire a forest wildlife specialist as a partner position with Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (VDWR) to lead efforts on state lands and to coordinate with private landowners in close proximity to dynamic forest restoration...

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