| Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic |
| Project Name: | Scarborough Marsh Wetland Reserve Project
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
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| Summary: | The 3,100-acre Scarborough Marsh Wildlife Management area, Maine's largest and most renowned salt marsh, is being restored in a 5-phased project, eliminating restrictions of natural tidal flows.
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| Website: | www.scarboroughmaine.com/marsh/ |
| Contact: | Susan Wilder
Friends of Scarborough Marsh
207-883-6050 swilder@gwi.net
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| Project Name: | GIS Environmental Master Plan
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania
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| Summary: | Assisting Smaller Communities with environmental remediation, land use planning, and other activities by supplying GIS data and technical expertise.
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| Website: | www.pagis.org |
| Contact: | Alex Rogers
Navigator
Upper Susquehanna American Heritage River
570-826-6340 arogers@epix.net
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| Project Name: | Lower Bronx River—A Community-Led Restoration Initiative
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
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| Summary: | With many partners, the Bronx River Alliance re-established salt marshes and created parkland at the site of an abandoned concrete plant.
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| Website: | www.bronxriver.org |
| Contact: | Linda R. Cox
Executive Director
Bronx River Alliance
718-430-4668 Linda.Cox@parks.nyc.gov
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| Project Name: | Ontario Dune Coalition
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
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| Summary: | TODC provides technical, educational, and clearinghouse services to its member organizations, property owners and public officials in matters addressing the Eastern Lake Ontario Dunes.
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| Website: | www.nysgdunes.org/dune/dune.html |
| Contact: | John DeHollander
District Manager
Oswego County Soil and Water Conservation District
315.592.9663 john_dehollander@alltel.net
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| Project Name: | Upper Valley Trails for Life
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| Location: | Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont
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| Summary: | With Robt. Wood Johnson Foundation funds, Upper Valley Trails Alliance & National Park Service are promoting physical activity in four towns by using trails and doctors' "prescriptions for walking."
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| Website: | www.uvtrails.org/albd.html |
| Contact: | Lelia Mellen
RTCA Vermont Field Office
National Park Service
(802) 457-3368, ext 14 lelia_mellen@nps.gov
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| Southeastern |
| Project Name: | Compatible Use Buffer Program
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| Location: | Southeastern: Florida
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| Summary: | Florida agencies and groups worked with Camp Blanding to create buffer zones to stem Base encroachment and provide open space for conservation.
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| Website: | aec.army.mil/usaec/natural/natural03a.html |
| Contact: | Mollie Glover Palmer
Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
850-245-2011 mollie.palmer@dep.state.fl.us
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| Project Name: | EnergyXchange Renewable Energy Center
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| Location: | Southeastern: North Carolina
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| Summary: | Today, decomposing garbage in the landfill fuels pottery kilns, glass furnaces, and greenhouse at the EnergyXchange Renewable Energy Center.
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| Website: | www.energyxchange.org |
| Contact: | Stan Steury
RC&D Coordinator
Blue Ridge RC&D
(828) 297-5805 Stan.Steury@nc.usda.gov
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| Midwest/Northern High Plains |
| Project Name: | Iowa Soybean Association Agronomic & Environmental Programs
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Iowa
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| Summary: | To empower farmers to compare new crop production practices and inputs with current management practices to improve their economic returns and lessen their environmental impact.
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| Website: | www.isafarmnet.com |
| Contact: | Roger Wolf
Director, Environmental Programs
Iowa Soybean Association
800 383 1423 rwolf@iasoybeans.com
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| Project Name: | Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin
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| Summary: | In the spirit of Sigurd F. Olson, we facilitate solutions to environmental problems through education, research and citizen involvement.
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| Website: | www.northland.edu/soei |
| Contact: | Claudia Curran
Public Relations Manager
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute
715-682-1678 ccurran@northland.edu
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| Project Name: | Michigan's Copper Country Cooperative Partnership
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan
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| Summary: | In 1998, NRCS contracted with the EPA to remediate about 800 acres of exposed stamp sand areas to prevent erosion into Torch Lake.
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| Website: | www.epa.gov/glnpo/aoc/trchlke.html |
| Contact: | Steve Davis
State Conservation Engineer
United States Department of Agriculture-NRCS
(517) 324-5232 steve.davis@mi.usda.gov
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| Project Name: | Casper, WY Refinery
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
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| Summary: | Dedicated citizens collaborated to spearhead the design and implementation of an urban oil refinery clean-up for recreational and business use.
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| Contact: | Thomas O. Forslund
City Manager
307-235-8224 tforslund@cityofcasperwy.com
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| Project Name: | South Phillips County Rancher Stewardship Alliance
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| Location: | Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
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| Summary: | Twenty-five family ranches lead efforts for collaborative conservation to sustain communities, ranching culture and wildlife across 1,500,000 acres of native prairie.
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| Contact: | Dale and Janet Veseth
Contact Persons
South Phillips County Rancher Stewardship Alliance
406-658-2504 djvsth@mtintouch.net
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| South-Central/South-West |
| Project Name: | Houston Toad Recovery
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Texas
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| Summary: | Recovery of the Houston toad by providing safe harbor assurances and incentives to private landowners for their participation in habitat restoration and enhancement.
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| Contact: | David Wolfe
Senior Scientist
Environmental Defense
512-691-3415 dwolfe@ed.org
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| Project Name: | Envision Utah
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Utah
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| Summary: | Envision Utah, an unparalleled public-private partnership, educates citizens about urban growth and methods for maintaining quality of life and natural beauty.
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| Website: | www.envisionutah.org |
| Contact: | Alan Matheson
Executive Director
Coalition for Utah's Future
801-303-1452 amatheson@cuf-envision.org
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| Project Name: | American Fork Canyon Home Rivers Project
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Utah
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| Summary: | Trout Unlimited, a third party “Good Samaritan,” will restore abandoned mines on private property to improve trout habitat in American Fork Canyon.
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| Website: | www.tu.org |
| Contact: | Ted Fitzgerald
Project Manager, American Fork Creek
Trout Unlimited
801-465-9949 tfitzgerald@tu.org
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| Project Name: | Paradis Mitigation Bank
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| Location: | South-Central/South-West: Louisiana
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| Summary: | After more than seven decades of energy production for the Nation, the 7100-acre Paradis Mitigation Bank will protect, restore and enhance wetland functions and values of the Lower Mississippi Valley.
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| Website: | upstream.chevrontexaco.com/paradis/ |
| Contact: | Eric Frasier
President
Frasier Group, Inc.
936-569-9428 efrasier@cox-internet. com
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| Far West |
| Project Name: | Willapa Bay Cooperative Restoration Effort
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| Location: | Far West: Washington
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| Summary: | Project partners are cooperatively managing forests across ownership boundaries to maintain the rich biological legacies remaining within this area of southwest Washington.
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| Website: | www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/washington/preserves/art12965.html |
| Contact: | Tom Kollasch
Ellsworth Creek Forest Manager
The Nature Conservancy of Washington
(503) 325-3896 tkollasch@tnc.org
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| Project Name: | Codornices Creek Watershed Restoration Action Plan -- CCWRAP
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | Goals are to re-establish a viable Oncorhynchus mykiss (steelhead) population in Codornices Creek by creating and sustaining a science and community based watershed protection and restoration program.
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| Website: | www.urbancreeks.org |
| Contact: | Emma B.L. Gutzler
Restoration Coordinator
Urban Creeks Council
510.540.6669 ucc_staff@urbancreeks.org
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| Project Name: | Mercury contamination in San Francisco Bay
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| Location: | Far West: California
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| Summary: | Assessment of mercury contamination in mud flat sediments associated with salt pond restoration.
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| Website: | www.werc.usgs.gov/index.html |
| Contact: | Dr. A. Keith Miles
Principal Investigator
US Geological Survey
530-752-5365 keith_miles@usgs.gov
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| Project Name: | Transforming Development via Sea Grant Extension
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| Location: | Far West: Hawaii
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| Summary: | Hawaii Sea Grant Program lent neutrality & credibility to Federal tech assistance, allowing local parties with differing views to collaborate effectively on a better approach to community development.
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| Website: | www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/theme/cce/themeteam2.php |
| Contact: | Gordon Grau
Director
University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program
808-956-7031 sgdir@hawaii.edu
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