Restoration
Partners
R4 National Forests
Youth and Recreation
Potpourri
100
This agency program celebrates its 5th anniversary this year with 23 projects nationally, 250 partners, and approximately 1.5 million acres treated. It is recognized as a cutting edge program that is shaping the future of National Forests.
What is Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program?
100
This county partner (named after a past president) completed an agreement with the Forest Service for the Birch Creek Watershed Focused Investment project. The project included a $200,000 Schedule A agreement to resurface 2 miles, heavy maintenance and replace all the culverts along 10 miles of Forest Highway 17. The project also included another $130,000 for the county to install an aquatic organism passage on FS road17 at the Hall creek crossing for Colorado River Cutthroat trout.
What is Garfield County?
100
This Forest partners with the Southern Utah University, other land management agencies, and Native American Tribes of Southern Utah, Northern Arizona and Eastern Nevada to develop challenging Internship opportunities for Students from most SUU degree programs and in a diversity of exciting professional fields. Partners mentor their Interns providing "real world"work experience that can complement their academic pursuits and help preparethem for a successful career.
What is Dixie National Forest?
100
This new White House initiative targets 4th grade students and includes over 20 national partners to encourage youth on public lands.
What is Every Kid in a Park (EKIP)?
100
The amount of funds that the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Greater Yellowstone Area National Forests—Caribou-Targhee, Bridger-Teton, Shoshone, Custer-Gallatin, Beaverhead-Deer lodge—collectively contributed over two years to purchase and install campground infrastructure such as bear-resistant storage boxes and interpretive materials for bear-awareness.
What is over $600,000?
200
This National Forest is partnering with staff from the Wyoming Governor’s Office, Uinta County Citizen's Coalition for Sound Resource Use (UCCC), State of Utah–DNR, and Summit County Council to collaboratively accelerate restoration efforts on the North Slope of the Uintas. The Utah Partners for Conservation Development (UPCD) program have also been partners in this effort.
What is Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest?
200
Which of the following is a true statement about partnerships on the Pleasant Grove Ranger District? A. Utah Department of Transportation – utilize funding to purchase barrier rock for route control and river bank stabilization B. Timpanogos Cave National Monument – utilize fee money and personnel to support interagency conservation education, visitor contact, and information C. Utah County Sheriff’s Office (Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue) – utilize funding to support law enforcement and search and rescue operations D. Wasatch Mountain State Park – utilize fee money to support interagency travel management and winter trail operations. E. All of the above
What is E: All of the above?
200
On this Forest, volunteers from the San Rafael Back Country Horsemen, Student Conservation Association and American Conservation Experience joined Forest Service employees to restore and improve the trails after most non-motorized trails in Huntington Canyon were destroyed by the Seeley Fire in 2012. Now all but two of the many hiking trails in Huntington Canyon are useable and in better shape than ever.
What is Manti-La Sal National Forest?
200
The type of recreation work on the Manti-La Sal N.F. performed by the Lower Utah Nordic Alliance, cross-country skiers, snow-shoers and other outdoor winter enthusiasts.
What is Non-Motorized Trail Grooming?
200
This national forest recently utilized the expanded interpretive association authority to partner with the Old Spanish Trail Association for interpretive services on the Forests. The expanded authority allows agreements with non-typical groups including non-profits to provide interpretive and education opportunities on public lands.
What is the Fishlake National Forest?
300
These partners have invested over $1 million for the Vernon Ecosystem Restoration Project on the Spanish Fork Ranger District over the past 5 years. Funds have been used for improvements to sage grouse and mule deer habitat, fuel reduction, and rangeland conditions on approximately 10,000 of National Forest lands.
What is NRCS (Sage Grouse Initiative) and State of Utah (Watershed Restoration Initiative)?
300
CFLRP funds allowed the Forest to leverage $75,000 in funding from this partner to perform road improvement work along important anadromous spawning habitat. This work resulted in 5.1 miles of stream habitat enhanced.
What is Nez Perce Tribe?
300
This Forest is currently utilizing a partnership between the Forest and Outfitter and Guides to maintain trails in Wilderness. Not only does this help the Forest Service meet our target in trail miles and providing a quality experience for visitors, but it also helps the Outfitters maintain valuable recreation access for their businesses.
What is Salmon-Challis National Forest (Middle Fork District)?
300
The Southwest Idaho Mountain Biking Association (SWIMBA) and Idaho Trails Association assisted this National Forest with the construction of 1.5 miles of new trail that was added to existing Wewukiye Bike Trail around Warm Lake.
What is Boise National Forest?
300
This National Forest has partnered for many years with the Nez Perce tribe which has contributed funding and tribal member direct support to improve the South Fork Salmon River watershed. This year the partnership helped decommission roads in the South Fork Salmon River with an estimated target accomplishment of about 11 miles completed. In addition, the partnership completed 2 miles of riparian restoration along the South Fork Salmon River by planting about 1,000 conifers on a re-contoured roadbed. Overall, the partnership in the past for the South Fork Salmon River Improvement Project has accomplished many activities with the Nez Perce Tribe helping with design assistance, funding, monitoring and inventory.
What is the Boise National Forest?
400
Forest work on the Caribou-Targhee that each of the following partners have in common: Idaho Dept. of Fish & Game (Big Horn sheep, Sage and Sharp-tail Grouse) Henrys Fork Foundation (Henrys Fork of the Snake River) Northern Rockies Conservation Coop (Bald Eagles) Idaho Bird Conservatory (Cavity nesting monitoring) Trumpeter Swan Society (Trumpeter Swans) Biodiversity Research Institute (Common Loon) Wildlife Conservation Society (Carnivore management) Round River Conservation Cooperative: Wolverine monitoring Greater Yellowstone Coalition: Grizzly Bear management
What is Forest Plan Monitoring?
400
This partner regularly assists the Boise National Forest every year with trail maintenance. As of September 30, 2015 they have performed maintenance on approximately 287 miles of trails on the Lowman and Cascade Ranger Districts.
What is Idaho State Parks and Recreation?
400
This Forest hosted the first ever Wild Outdoor Week (WOW!) refugee youth outreach program in August. Ten refugee teens ages 14-17 from Congo, Thailand, Burma, Nepal, Iraq, and Mexico completed hands on service projects including invasive weed removal, planting native shrubs, raking around structures for fire prevention, and building and installing bird boxes. Together with numerous Forest specialists and partners, youth learned about fire ecology, wildlife habitat, watershed dynamics, fishing, pollinators, native plants, and Forest Service careers. Partners included: Golden Eagle Audubon Society, Land Trust of the Treasure Valley, Intermountain Bird Observatory(Boise State University), Boise Watershed, Foothills Learning Center, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
What is Boise National Forest?
400
This Forest has partnered with the county special service district for the past eight years receiving over $400,000 in funding for a Y.C.C. program. In addition, Utah State University provides students the opportunity to earn 3 semester college credits based upon their experience.
What is Ashley National Forest?
400
This visitor center on the Sawtooth NRA is operated by an interpretive association through a partnership agreement and special use permit.
What is Redfish Visitor Center?
500
The total dollars of service work performed under stewardship contracts as a direct result of CFLRP funding on the Payette NF: A) $ 500,000 B) $ 4 million C) $ 1.8 million D) $ 3.5 million
What is $ 1.8 million?
500
This Forest partnered with American Forests, Arbor Day Foundation, Utah Partners for Conservation and Development, USFS Region 4 and USFS State and Private Forestry – Forest Health Protection to plant approximately 108,000 tree seedlings on about 448 acres with hopes to expand this planting program in upcoming years. Trees were planted to restore forested conditions to areas burned by recent wildfires.
What is Dixie National Forest?
500
This Forest, along with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition received the Forest Service Intermountain Region’s Annual Partnership Award for “outstanding work in assessing and reducing potential human/bear conflicts in campgrounds on the 5 National Forests in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem”.
What is Caribou-Targhee National Forest?
500
Benefits of this cooperative partnership include: · Meets agency goals/strategies/ initiatives · Budget-end of season funding, pre planning, extend budgets/partnerships through agreements · Targets-meet critical targets across interdisciplinary resources. (Trails, Recreation, Roads, Watershed, Range, Wildlife etc.) · Diversity-diversity of applicants and recruitment in the communities · Career/Education: coordinated academic learning and connection to land agencies/management, experiential internship credit · Youth-meet youth initiatives, More Kids inWoods, conservation education · Volunteers-recruitment of volunteers · Opportunity to Share the Dixie NF story with students and SUU staff
What is the Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative?
500
This NRA recently dedicated a new visitor that was constructed utilizing primarily partnership funding. The NRA is also now examining innovative partnerships to assist with operations of recreation facilities and the visitor center.
What is the Spring Mountain NRA?
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