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In northeast Florida, longleaf pine has been harmed by the uncontrolled presence of palmetto plants—which have overgrown due to a lack of natural fire. This Collaborative...
A critical water source, New Mexico's Zuni Mountain landscape is also home to a variety of fish and wildlife, including the endangered Zuni bluehead sucker and Mexican...
Approximately 87 percent of the Payette National Forest is a continuous landscape of low- to mid-elevation forest, an ideal home for about 300 wildlife species, including...
The Uncompahgre Plateau Collaborative Restoration Project covers 555,300 acres of mixed conifer, ponderosa pine, pinyon-juniper, aspen, spruce-fir, and riparian areas in...
The Tapash Sustainable Forest Collaborative landscape in central Washington includes 1.6 million acres of dry forest with a recent history of large fires destructive to...
The Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Project is pioneering new forest restoration efforts across 1.5 million acres in western Montana. The project is...
The Southwest Jemez Mountains Collaborative Landscape Restoration Project consists of 210,000 acres within the Jemez River watershed in north-central New Mexico. Project...
Restoration projects in the Southern Blues Restoration Coalition Collaborative Landscape Restoration Project reduce forest density, create a mosaic of wildlife habitats,...
The shortleaf pine-bluestem woodlands in the Ouachita National Forest are home to 29 endemic species found nowhere else on earth. The woodlands also provide habitat for...
The Clearwater Basin Collaborative offers a path away from the historic “timber wars” towards a more constructive future by meeting the needs of local communities,...
The dense forests and open woodlands of the Ozark Highlands are important for a variety of wildlife species, including elk, turkey, Bachman’s sparrow, Ozark chinquapin,...
The Kettle River Range is a meeting place for the forests of the Cascade and Rocky Mountains, a diverse haven for elk, bull trout, Canada lynx, and pileated woodpecker....
The landscape within south-central Oregon's Lakeview Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) project is an important water source for agriculture and...
Idaho's Kootenai Valley provides winter range for big game, with uplands providing habitat for caribou, grizzly bear, and lynx, as well as bull trout and other fisheries....
The Grandfather Collaborative Landscape Restoration Project, located in Pisgah National Forest at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, will increase...
The frequency of drought in the Dinkey Creek region of California's southern Sierra Nevada Mountains puts the ecosystem and human life at risk from wildfire. The Dinkey...
The Deschutes Forest Collaborative Project in central Oregon spans 257,000 acres of forest, the majority of which historically experienced frequent low-intensity fires. In...
The longleaf pine ecosystem of De Soto National Forest is home to a variety of threatened and endangered species, including gopher tortoise and red-cockaded woodpecker, in...
In 2010, the Colorado Front Range Landscape Restoration Initiative was born to create a long-lasting ecological, social, and economic benefit across a 1.5 million-acre...
Renowned for outdoor recreational opportunities, “The Basins” has numerous springs and is also a haven for wildlife species, including black-tailed deer, California...
Yosemite Stanislaus Solutions is a group of nearly 30 stakeholders with a diverse set of interests that collaborate to aid the potential for increasing the pace and scale...
The Upper South Platte Partnership brings together a variety of government and non-government organizations to protect, maintain, and improve the watershed—which provides...
The Florida Forest Service treated more than 246,000 acres of state forests with prescribed fire over a one-year period during 2014–2015, taking advantage of favorable...
Partnerships among a variety of public and private groups across Florida—including private landowners—have created dedicated ecosystem restoration teams. Such teams could...
The U.S. Forest Service is implementing a plan to restore and maintain shortleaf pine, table mountain pine, pitch pine, and dry-mesic oak woodland communities—as well as...
Using prescribed fire as the largest tool, the U.S. Forest Service has proposed a plan to restore the forest in northern Georgia's Cooper Creek Watershed. Other actions...
Groups in Baker County, Florida, have focused on reducing wildfire risk in both the human and natural realms by taking steps to strengthen the county's Community Wildfire...
The U.S. Forest Service plans for a 820-acre prescribed fire on the steep and rocky terrain of Tallulah Gorge in northeastern Georgia. Previous prescribed burns in the...
A 30-acre tract of privately owned land in the Uwharrie National Forest—located in south-central North Carolina—complicated planning for a prescribed burn. The landowner,...
Lynn Hollow is a 300-acre site within Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee. Adjacent to the Park boundary is the Top of the World Community, an area...
The New Jersey Pinelands is one of the pilot areas for the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network. The area is primarily pine barrens—an extremely flammable ecosystem—...
Ely, Minnesota, is a pilot community in the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, which aims to build capacity and raise awareness about wildfire resilience through...
A spatial risk analysis was conducted to classify Barnstable County, Massachusetts, into four categories of wildfire risk and make risk-reduction recommendations. Cape Cod...
Growing season burns have been prescribed at Uwharrie National Forest at least twice in the past. Good conditions in 2014 allowed for another growing season burn, which...
Chicago Wilderness is an alliance of member organizations in a region including Chicago, Illinois; Gary, Indiana; Michigan; and Southern Wisconsin. The group's foci range...
This large-scale restoration program aims to restore forests and watersheds in California's Sierra Nevada Watershed to a healthier state, reduce the risk of large...
The Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project (AFR) makes both wildlife and human communities a priority. The AFR functions based on partnerships between public and...
The accelerated restoration of the Blue Mountains in Oregon and Washington is part of a larger nationwide effort known as Eastside Restoration. So far, acres in need of...
The mountain pine beetle has devastated forests in Wyoming and South Dakota—and fire suppression is one reason for the native insect's proliferation. Absent natural fire,...
The Southern Blue Ridge is one of the most biologically significant regions in the United States, boasting an unbroken network of our country’s most diverse forest that...
Since 2014, the U.S. Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service have invested in a number of three-year projects across the U.S. that work to improve...
Since 2005, the Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership has been conducting controlled burns to protect rare natural habitats and reduce the risk of wildfire on the...
One hundred thousand acres of Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest—situated in the Eleven Point and Poplar Bluff ranger districts—were selected as a Collaborative Forest...
The Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) is a collaborative effort to restore forest ecosystems on 2.4 million acres of ponderosa pine forest situated in four...
Guided by Cohesive Fire Strategy and the Open Standards Process for Conservation, groups in the Western Klamath region of northern California were able to craft a plan...
Areas of the Stanislaus and Eldorado National Forests in California have experienced large, stand-replacing fires in recent years. There is also a need to create quality...
Since 2003, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah has invested heavily in wildlife habitat improvement, especially for the sage-grouse in southern Utah. Using a variety...