United States

Department of 

Agriculture

Forest Service

FS-729

January 2002

Forest Legacy 

Program National

Report for 2001
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and

activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs,

sexual orientation, and marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.)

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program

information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at

202-720-2600 (voice and TDD). To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director,

Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 14th and Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice or TDD). USDA is an equal

opportunity provider and employer.

For more information contact one of the following:

Director, Cooperative Forestry

(202) 205-1389

Forest Legacy Program Manager

(202) 205-1469

Web site: http://www.fs.fed.us/cooperativeforestry/
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Message From Michael T. Rains,

Deputy Chief, State and Private

Forestry

There are nearly 500 million acres of non-Federal forest land in the United States, comprising

approximately 70 percent of the Nation’s total forest area. Because these lands represent most of

the forests in the Nation, retaining them as forest and keeping them collectively healthy,

productive, and sustainable is especially important.

State and Private Forestry (S&PF) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service

is the Federal leader in providing technical and financial assistance to landowners and resource

managers to help sustain the Nation’s forests. Our mission is to help facilitate sound stewardship

across lands of all ownerships on a landscape scale, while maintaining the flexibility for individual

forest landowners to pursue their objectives. On non-Federal lands, we accomplish this by

working with States to implement a variety of cooperative programs, including fire protection,

forest pest management, conservation education, economic development, urban and community

forestry, forest stewardship, and forest legacy.

The Forest Legacy Program (FLP) is a valuable tool that supports the mission and embodies the

spirit of State and Private Forestry. I am pleased to present this report of the status of the FLP.

The program’s success is built on partnership, and the outcome is a legacy of forests for future

generations.
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Message From Larry Payne,

Director, Cooperative Forestry

The Cooperative Forestry Staff provides technical and financial assistance to help rural and urban

citizens care for forests and sustain the communities where they live, work, and play. The Forest

Legacy Program (FLP) is an integral part of meeting this goal. The program supports the efforts of 

private landowners to protect and conserve environmentally important forest areas that are 

threatened by conversion to nonforest uses. It operates as a partnership between the USDA Forest

Service, States, land trusts, private landowners, and others. The program is based on the concept of

“willing seller and willing buyer” and is completely nonregulatory in its approach. Since 1992, over

$126 million has been invested through the FLP to States and Territories and has currently

protected over 152,914 acres.

We are proud of the accomplishments of the FLP. Contained herein is a status of those gains.

Our aim is to increase the program’s achievement, its effectiveness, and to constantly work toward

making a difference where it counts on the land.
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Executive Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Forest Legacy Program Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Budget History–Appropriations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

Program Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Forest Legacy Program Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Revision of the Forest Legacy Program Implementation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

A U.S. Map of Completed Forest Legacy Program Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Participating Forest Legacy Program States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Forest Legacy Success Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

– Highlights of North Carolina Forest Legacy Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

– The Rhode Island Philosophy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

– The Utah Forest Legacy Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

– Nicatous Forest Legacy Project wins the “Taking Wing” Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Participating State Lead Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Contents
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Executive Summary

The Forest Legacy Program (FLP) is a voluntary private land conservation program between the

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, States, land trusts, private

landowners, and others. It provides financial assistance, leveraged by non-Federal cost sharing and

cooperation with States, to prevent the fragmentation and conversion of private forest land. It is a

nonregulatory program that ensures that important forests remain intact and on the tax roles, and

that they continue to contribute to the community, the local economy, the landowner, and the

environment.

• The goal of the FLP is to effectively protect and conserve environmentally important forest 

areas that are threatened by conversion to nonforest uses. The program uses conservation 

easements and other acquisition mechanisms to protect these lands forever.

• The FLP is implemented by States that have joined the program, local governments, land 

trusts, and willing landowners, with the USDA Forest Service.

• Currently, 24 States and Territories are actively involved in the FLP. An additional 18 States 

and Territories are in the process of developing plans (Assessments of Need) to join the 

program.

• In 2000, five States joined the FLP (Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

Tennessee). Four projects closed in those States and 61 are in progress. 

• The FLP budget has been increasing over the past 3 years—from $7 million in 1999 to 

$60 million in 2001.

• Between 1992 and April 6, 2001, FLP completed 98 projects, conserving 152,914 acres 

of forest with a value of almost $106 million through a program investment of $40 million.

• In FY 2001, approximately 721,000 acres are to be conserved by FLP projects. For a Federal 

investment of $60 million, the FLP will protect lands with a total value of more than 

$151 million.

• The FLP Implementation Guidelines are undergoing a revision. Growth in terms of increased

funding levels, program enrollment, State participation, and involvement of conservation 

partners has driven this review. The 2001 FLP Implementation Guidelines will be final later 

this year.

• The Washington Office Cooperative Forestry Staff conducted a review of the Northeastern 

Area FLP. The focus of the review was to highlight successes, and to recommend approaches 

to continue to improve the management and implementation of FLP in the area.

• Four success stories–Highlights of the North Carolina FLP, The Rhode Island Philosophy, 

The Utah Forest Program–The Peaceful Valley Ranch, and The Nicatous Forest Legacy 

Project Wins the “Taking Wing” Award–illustrate the uniqueness of the FLP and its 

successful implementation.
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Forest Legacy Program Overview

• The Forest Legacy Program ascertains and protects environmentally important forest areas 

that are threatened with conversion to nonforest uses. Conservation easements, or fee simple

purchases, are the methods used by the USDA Forest Service and its partners in working with

willing landowners to accomplish program objectives.

• The FLP involves a partnership between the State and Private Forestry (S&PF) and National 

Forest System (NFS) branches of the USDA Forest Service, State foresters, State lead 

agencies, local governments, land trusts, and interested landowners to conserve these 

environmentally important forests.

• The FLP assures that both traditional uses of private lands and the public values of America's

forests are protected for future generations. It provides a cost-effective mechanism to conserve

important scenic, cultural, fish, wildlife, and recreation resources; riparian areas; and other 

ecological values.

• Participating States, territories, or local governments in cooperation with States can use FLP 

grant funds to acquire land, or interests in land, and hold title in their name.

• Twenty-four States and one Territory (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, 

Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New 

Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, 

Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin) are active in the FLP. Other States 

(Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, 

Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,

Virgin Islands, West Virginia) are either developing plans for approval or beginning the 

planning process.

Budget History:

Appropriations

(Dollars in Thousands)

Program

Description

FY

1992

4,938 9,915 6,948 6,688 3,000 2,000 4,000 7,012 29,933 59,768

FY

1993

FY

1994

FY

1995*

FY

1996

FY

1997

FY

1998

FY

1999

FY

2000

FY

2001**

* -$7.8 million of unspent funds were rescinded in FY 1995–all the 

FY 1995 funds plus $1.112 million of prior-year funds. The above 

amounts were the original appropriations before the rescission.

** Reflects realignment and adjustments to achieve primary-purpose 

objectives.
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From June 26-30, 2000, the Washington Office (WO) Cooperative Forestry Staff conducted a

review of the Northeastern Area’s (NA) FLP. This review resulted from a decision made 2 years

ago by the WO to conduct periodic regional reviews of the FLP, roughly once every 5 years for

each region/area/institute. This particular review was conducted simultaneously with NA’s own

review of Massachusetts and Vermont. The entire review team visited Massachusetts, Vermont,

and Maine, in which the team viewed several FLP projects, met with State foresters, and 

conducted discussions on different aspects of the FLP.

The focus of the review was to highlight the successes of NA’s FLP through commendations and

to improve the program through recommendations.

Forest Legacy Program Review
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The FLP was created by the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (CFAA, 16 U.S.C.

2103c), as amended by the 1990 and 1996 Farm Bills. The program began implementation in

1992 and was amended in 1996 to offer a State Grant Option. FLP has experienced tremendous

growth since its beginnings. This growth has come in the form of significant funding increases,

accelerated State enrollment and participation, and expanded interest and involvement among

nonprofit land conservation partners.

The FLP has grown in size, but has also matured in knowledge and experience. The program 

has become more complex. Therefore, it was decided that a review and revision of the 1996

Implementation Guidelines was appropriate and necessary at this time to provide additional 

guidance to the growing number of States entering the FLP. The revision process began in 1999.

A State-Federal Review Team was assembled in 2000. This team met several times to develop a

draft revision for input and review. A partner participation and outreach process resulted in three

rounds of public comments. Comments and input were synthesized and integrated into the

revised guidelines. The Review Team met May 15 and 16, 2001, to produce the Final Draft

Implementation Guidelines. The guidelines are now under final review and preparation for

announcement in the Federal Register.

The new FLP Implementation Guidelines include sections on General Program Guidelines, 

offering direction applicable to all aspects of the FLP, State Grant Program Guidelines, and

Federal Acquisition Program Guidelines. The guidelines provide specific State participation

procedures and information on project selection processes and funding distribution. The

guidelines contain expanded segments on definitions, project monitoring, and land trust participation. It is expected that the 2001 FLP Implementation Guidelines will be released by year-end.

Revision of the Forest Legacy Program

Implementation Guidelines
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A U.S. Map of Completed 

Forest Legacy Program Projects
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Participating Forest Legacy

Program States

About the tables:

• The overall goals reflect the States’ priorities for FLP implementation.

• “CE” refers to conservation easement.

• “AON” refers to assessment of need.

• Project closure dates are as of April 6, 2001, with the exception of two projects in Utah.

• Projects with $0 FLP payment indicate State match properties that are considered 

accomplishements of FLP.
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California

AON Approval Date: 01-22-96

AON Amendment Date: 01-16-01

• Prevent future conversions of forest land and forest resources

• Protect wildlife habitat, rare plants, and biodiversity

• Maintain habitat connectivity and related values needed to ensure the viability of wildlife 

populations across landscapes and regions

• Protect riparian habitats, oak stands, ecological old growth, and other key forest types and seral

stages that are poorly represented across landscapes and regions and that play a key role in 

supporting biodiversity

• Protect water quality, fisheries, and water supplies

• Maintain and restore natural ecosystem functions

Overall Goals

Project Name

and No.

1. Anonymous

2. Twinning & 

Oracle Oak 

Ranches

Mendocino/1 1,749 3,000,000 0 CE/Land

Trust

Closed 

12-27-97

Mendocino/1 1,526 1,850,000 40,000 CE/Land

Trust

Closed 

12-28-00

3. Addison 

Forest

Mendocino/1 600 1,500,000 50,000 CE/Land

Trust

Funded

4. Howlett 

Tree Farm

Sonoma/6 1,395 5,000,000 50,000 CE/Land

Trust

Funded

5. Big Creek I Santa Cruz/

14, 15

500 3,000,000 1,312,000 CE/State Funded

6. Volcan 

Mountain 

Phase I

San Diego/44 900 2,500,000 830,000 Fee/State Funded

7. Lemon 

Canyon 

Ranch

Total Closed (2 projects) 3,275 4,850,000 40,000

Total Funded (5 projects) 4,035 13,920,000 2,292,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(6 projects) 38,287 67,500,000 14,550,000

Sierra/2 640 1,920,000 50,000 CE/Land

Trust

Funded

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment ($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

For More Information Sandra Stone, Forest Service Contact Jeff Calvert, State Contact

(707) 562-8918 (phone) (916) 653-8286 (phone)

sstone01@fs.fed.us (e-mail) jeffrey_calvert@fire.ca.gov (e-mail)
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Project Name

and No.

1. Maplewood

Farm

2. Pogmore

Litchfield/6 172 210,000 210,000 CE/Federal Closed 

11-10-97

Windham/2 53 80,000 80,000 CE/Federal Closed 

01-09-97

3. Pine Brook Middlesex/2 127 100,000 100,000 CE/Federal Closed 

06-17-99

4. Holcomb Hartford/1 158 315,000 0 Fee/State Closed 

04-13-00

5.Worthington Tolland/2 311 597,000 0 Fee/State Closed 

06-30-00

6. Footehill 

Farm

Hartford/1 125 875,000 125,000 CE/Federal Funded

7. Great 

Mountain 

Forest

Total Closed (5 projects) 821 1,302,000 390,000

Total Funded (2 projects) 5,690 6,440,000 4,276,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(2 projects) 229 11,700,000 1,200,000

Hirtchfield/6 5,565 5,565,000 4,151,000 CE/State Funded

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Fred Borman, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (860) 424-3634 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) Fred.borman@po.state.ct.us (e-mail)

For More Information

Connecticut

AON Approval Date: 10-26-94

• Protect large blocks of forest land

• Provide opportunities for continuing traditional forest uses

• Work with existing open space initiatives to achieve maximum resource conservation 

• Protect water quality

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Mike Brown, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (302) 739-4811, ext. 239 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) mikeb@dda.state.de.us (e-mail)

For More Information

Delaware

AON Approval Date: 12-10-98

• Identify and protect environmentally important, privately owned forest land threatened with 

conversion to nonforest uses

• Reduce forest fragmentation caused by development

• Provide environmental benefits through the restoration and protection of riparian zones,

native forest plants and animals, and remnant forest types

• Provide recreational opportunities

• Provide watershed and water supply protection

• Provide employment opportunities and economic stability through maintenance of 

traditional forest uses

• Maintain important scenic resources of the State

• Provide linkage between public properties, protected properties, and greenways

• Provide protection of rare, threatened, and/or endangered species of plants and animals

• Promote forest stewardship

• Provide educational opportunities

Overall Goals

Potential

Future

Projects

1 3,385 4,000,000 4,000,000

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Sandra Stone, Forest Service Contact Karl dalla Rosa, State Contact

(707) 562-8918 (phone) (808) 587-4174 (phone)

sstone01@fs.fed.us (e-mail) karl_r_dalla_rosa@exec.state.hi.us (e-mail)

For More Information

Project Name

and No.

1. Kapua

2. Papa

Hawaii/2 1,800 1,000,000 1,000,000 CE/Federal Funded

Hawaii/2 2,000 2,100,000 1,700,000 CE/Federal Funded

Total Funded (2 projects) 3,800 3,100,000 2,700,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(1 projects) 11,402 24,000,000 18,000,000

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Hawaii

AON Approval Date: 11-29-94

• Prevent future conversions of forest land and forest resources

• Prevent the further loss of Hawaii’s rare and endangered species and the further fragmentation 

of important wildlife habitats

• Provide secure, unfragmented areas of native forest enrichment, expansion, and regeneration

• Protect and enhance critical watershed areas

• Encourage active forest management to ensure the regeneration and sustenance of productive, 

biodiverse forest ecosystems

• Provide a landowner-driven and proactive, rather than administrator-driven and regulatory, 

approach to solving natural resource problems that provides fair compensation for foregone 

property rights

• Prevent future zoning reclassification in response to changing economic pressures or 

government policies

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Illinois

AON Approval Date: 11-29-94

Overall Goals • Reduce forest fragmentation

• Restore riparian zones

• Provide public recreational opportunities

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Project Name

and No.

1. Oblate

Woods #1

2. Oblate 

C2000

Madison/20 60 252,000 252,000 CE/State Closed

05-25-00 

Madison/20 23 92,000 0 CE/State Closed 

05-23-00 

3. Oblate

Woods #2

Madison/20 60 240,000 240,000 CE/State Closed 

04-06-01

4. La Vista

Woods

Madison/20 60 532,000 280,000 CE/State Funded 

5. Daysville

Forest

Ogle/16 89 390,000 390,000 CE/State Funded 

6. Rattlesnake

Ridge #1

Total Closed (3 projects) 143 584,000 492,000

Total Funded (3 projects) 225 1,202,000 950,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(2 projects) 90 751,000 392,100

Madison/20 76 280,000 280,000 CE/State Funded 

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment ($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Dave Gillespie, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (217) 782-2361 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) dgillespie@dnrmail.state.il.us (e-mail)

For More Information
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Project Name

and No.

1. Little 

Richland 

Creek

2. Indiana 

Mound 

Farm

Monroe/7 300 239,000 179,000 CE/State Funded

Greene/8 800 800,000 400,000 CE/State Funded

3. Hill of Gold Brown/9 635 3,046,000 2,285,000 CE/State Funded

4. Gnaw Bone Brown/9 1,403 2,800,000 0 CE/State Funded

5. Big Spring 

Farm

Washington/9 105 125,000 80,000 CE/State Funded

Total Funded (7 projects) 3,588 7,660,000 3,427,000

Potential

Future 

Projects

(9 projects) 5,337 12,906,166 10,022,000

Monroe/7 225 450,000 383,000 CE/State Funded

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Indiana

AON Approval Date: 12-10-98

• Identify and protect environmentally important, privately owned forest lands threatened with

conversion to nonforest uses

• Reduce forest fragmentation caused by development

• Provide environmental benefits through the restoration and protection of riparian zones,

native forest plants and animals, and remnant forest types

• Provide recreational opportunities

• Provide watershed and water supply protection

• Provide employment opportunities and economic stability through maintenance of 

traditional forest uses

• Maintain important scenic resources of the State

• Provide links to public and other privately owned protected areas

• Protect rare, threatened, or endangered species of plants and animals

• Promote forest stewardship

• Provide educational opportunities

• Provide buffer areas to already protected areas

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

6. Rattlesnake

Creek

La Porte/3 120 200,000 100,000 CE/State Funded

7. Jack’s 

Defeat

Creek
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Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Dan Ernst, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (317) 232-4101 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) dernst@dnr.state.in.us

For More Information

Indiana-Cont.
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Maine

AON Approval Date: 03-18-94

• Maintain traditional forest uses

• Protect water quality

• Prevent development along pristine lakes, ponds, and streams

• Provide public recreation opportunities

• Maintain productive forests

Overall Goals

Project Name

and No.

1. Cupsuptic

Lake

2. SD Warren

Oxford/2 1,272 843,000 843,000 CE/Federal Closed

12-29-93

Somerset/2 6,773 1,490,000 1,490,000 CE/Federal Closed

08-15-96

3. Maine 

Wildness 

Watershed 

Trust

Somerset/2 1,770 210,000 210,000 CE/Federal Closed

05-24-96

4. Valentine Somerset/2 1,315 250,000 250,000 CE/State Closed

03-26-98

5. Nicatous Hancock/2 20,268 4,500,000 3,000,000 CE/State Closed

04-11-00

6. West Branch

Project 

Phase I

Somerset &

Piscataquis/2

67,520 6,000,000 2,000,000 CE/Fee

State

Funded

7. Pleasant 

Lake

Total Funded (5 projects) 658,464 69,330,000 14,520,000

Total Closed (5 projects) 31,398 7,293,000 5,793,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(4 projects) 508,600 51,900,000 49,150,000

Aroostook/2 9,671 840,000 630,000 CE/State Funded

8. Bible Point Aroostook/2 3,273 490,000 370,000 CE/Fee

State

Funded

9. West Branch 

Project 

Phase II

Somerset &

Piscataquis/2

545,000 54,000,000 10,350,000 CE/State Funded

10. Mt. Blue

Tumbledown

Phase I

Franklin/2 33,000 8,000,000 1,170,000 Fee/State Funded

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Ralph Knoll, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (207) 287-4911 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) ralph.knoll@state.me.us

For More Information

Maine-Cont.
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No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Project Name

and No.

1. Camp 

Rodney

2. Caveat 

Investments

Cecil/1 491 491,000 0 CE/State Closed 

06-24-99

Cecil/1 24 39,000 0 CE/State Closed 

06-24-99

3. McDaniel Cecil/1 153 245,000 0 CE/State Closed 

06-24-99

4a. Muddy 

Creek

Cecil/1 200 400,000 400,000 CE/State Funded

4b. Muddy 

Creek

Cecil/1 253 500,000 250,000 CE/State Funded

5. Green 

Cathedral

Anne

Arundel/1

292 1,750,000 650,000 CE/State Funded

6. Coastal Bay

Total Closed (3 projects) 668 775,000 0

Total Funded (4 projects) 840 2,775,000 1,425,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(6 projects) 543 1,030,000 1,030,000

Worcester/1 95 125,000 125,000 CE/State Funded

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

&

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Don VanHassent, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (410) 260-8504 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) dvanhassent@dnr.state.md.us (e-mail) 

For More Information

Maryland

AON Approval Date: 01-22-96

• Reduce forest fragmentation caused by development

• Restore and protect riparian zones, native plants and animals, and remnant forests

• Provide recreational opportunities

• Protect watersheds and water supplies

• Ensure economic stability through the continuation of traditional forest uses

• Maintain important scenic resources of the State

• Provide linkage to public areas and protected areas

• Protect rare, threatened, or endangered species

Overall Goals
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Project Name

and No.

1. Holich

2. Anciporch

Hampshire/1 113 220,000 220,000 CE/Federal Closed

07-31-95

Hampshire/1 106 198,000 198,000 CE/Federal Closed

12-04-95

3. Audubon 

(Piretti)

Berkshire/1 75 180,000 180,000 CE/Federal Closed

06-05-95

4. Hutchinson Worchester/1 490 616,000 616,000 CE/Federal Closed

07-12-96

5. Pippin Tree Middlesex/5 73 4,300,000 1,500,000 CE/Federal Closed

05-30-96

6. Boudreau Hampshire/2 56 335,000 321,000 CE/Federal Closed

04-25-97

7. Johnson Hampshire/2 47 50,000 48,000 CE/Federal Closed

01-20-98

8. Stockbridge Berkshire/1 67 60,000 60,000 CE/Federal Closed

09-13-99

9. Berkshire

Natural

Resource

Council 

(Kripalu)

Berkshire/1 225 280,000 280,000 CE/Federal Closed

12-31-97

10. 2-Mile

Landbridges

Worchester/1 508 350,000 350,000 CE/Federal Funded

11. Hatfield 

Watershed #1

Hampshire/1 130 600,000 400,000 CE/Federal Funded

12. Pumpkin

Brook Link

Middlesex/5 136 750,000 250,000 Fee/Town Funded

13. Alford 

Springs

Berkshire/1 667 1,100,000 1,000,000 CE/State Funded

14. Hatfield

Watershed #2

Hampshire/1 130 800,000 600,000 CE/Federal Funded

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Massachusetts

AON Approval Date: 08-05-93

AON Amendment Date: 01-16-01

• Protect high-elevation forests and municipal watershed

• Protect threatened and endangered species habitats

• Protect aquifers, river corridors, and wetlands

• Encourage traditional forest uses

Overall Goals
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Total Funded (5 projects) 1,571 3,600,000 2,600,000

Total Closed (9 projects) 1,252 6,239,000 3,423,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(3 projects) 322 3,565,000 1,895,000

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Warren Archey, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (413) 442-8928 ext. 33 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) warren.archey@state.ma.us (e-mail)

For More Information

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Massachusetts-Cont.
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Minnesota

AON Approval Date: 02-02-00

• Prevent forest conversion in areas of the State where private forest land has a greater chance

of being developed in the next decade

• Encourage all eligible organizations and agencies in the State to focus on the most threatened

forests and protect them

• Work with organizations and agencies in the State in protecting specific forest tracts from 

development

• Prevent the outright loss of productive timber land

• Prevent the fragmentation of forests

• Prevent the parcelization of ownerships

Overall Goals

Project Name

and No.

1. Big Woods

Heritage 

Forest

2. Nerstrand

Woods 1

Rice/1 140 409,000 0 Fee/State Closed

12-21-99

Rice/1 111 238,000 238,000 CE/State Closed

03-31-01

3. Seven-Mile

Woods #1

Rice/1 180 330,000 330,000 CE/State Funded

4. Seven-Mile

Woods #2

Rice/1 82 153,000 5,000 CE/State Funded

5. Seven-Mile

Woods #3

Rice/1 52 108,000 94,000 CE/State Funded

6. Seven-Mile

Woods #4

Rice/1 20 35,000 10,000 CE/State Funded

7. Cannon 

River 

Wildness #1

Rice/1 62 145,000 106,000 CE/State Funded

8. & 9. 

Nerstrand 

Wood #3

Rice/1 73 400,000 300,000 CE/State Funded

10. & 11.

Seven-Mile

Woods #5

Rice/1 50 110,000 66,000 CE/State Funded

12. Cannon 

River Big 

Woods #1

Rice/1 101 339,000 254,000 CE/State Funded

13. Nerstrand

Wood #2

Rice/1 10 22,000 15,000 CE/State Funded

14. Seven-Mile 

Woods #6

Rice/1 15 18,000 5,000 CE/State Funded

15. Rice 

Woods

Rice/1 108 184,000 138,000 CE/State Funded

16. Rice 

County Big 

Woods

Rice/1 470 1,338,000 906,000 CE/State Funded

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date
36 Forest Legacy Program National Report 2001

Total Funded (14 projects) 1,223 3,182,000 2,229,000

Total Closed (2 projects) 251 647,000 238,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(1 projects) 420 1,813,200 1,082,400

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Dick Peterson, State Contact

(603) 271-3456 (phone9 (507) 333-2012 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) dick.peterson@state.ma.us (e-mail)

For More Information

Minnesota-Cont.
Forest Legacy Program National Report 2001 37
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Project Name

and No.

1. Manley 

Ranch 

Phase I

2. Manley 

Ranch 

Phase II

Powell &

Granite/1

4,600 802,000 420,000 CE/State Funded

Powell &

Granite/1

3,300 593,000 137,000 CE/State Funded

3. Thompson/

Fisher

Phase II

Lincoln &

Sanders/1

52,935 11,999,156 3,794,633 CE/State Funded

4. Thompson/

Fisher

Phase I

Sanders/1 13,320 2,293,218 1,000,417 CE/State Closed

12-20-00

Total Funded (3 projects) 60,835 13,394,156 4,351,633

Potential

Future

Projects

(5 projects) 145,118 39,846,600 17,480,000

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Montana

AON Approval Date: 02-29-00

• Identify and protect environmentally important, privately owned forest land threatened with 

conversion to uses that are inconsistent with traditional forest uses including, but not limited

to, residential subdivisions, commercial development, extensive pasture, cultivated farmland, 

and mining that causes extensive surface disturbance

• Reduce forest fragmentation caused by development

• Provide environmental benefits through the protection of riparian areas, native forest plants 

and animals, remnant forest types, and natural ecosystem functions

• Enhance recreational opportunities

• Provide watershed and water supply protection

• Provide employment opportunities and economic stability through the maintenance of 

traditional forest uses

• Maintain important scenic resources

• Provide links to public and other privately owned protected areas

• Protect rare, threatened, endangered, and sensitive species

• Protect or enhance habitat connectivity and related values needed to ensure biodiversity

• Protect important historical and cultural sites

• Promote forest stewardship

• Provide buffer areas to already-protected areas

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Closed (1 project) 13,320 2,293,218 1,000,417
40 Forest Legacy Program National Report 2001

Glenn Roloff, Forest Service Contact Steve Knapp, State Contact

(406) 329-3521 (phone) (406) 444-2612 (phone)

groloff@fs.fed.us (e-mail) sknapp@state.mt.us (e-mail)

For More Information

Montana-Cont.
Forest Legacy Program National Report 2001 41
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New Hampshire

AON Approval Date: 02-11-94

AON Amendment Date: 02-29-00

• Expand existing protected forests

• Protect large blocks of forest land

• Provide for traditional forest uses

• Protect critical wildlife habitats

Overall Goals

Project Name

and No.

1. 13-Mile 

Woods

2. Smarts 

Mountain

Lyme 

Timber #1

Coos/2 2,754 555,000 555,000 CE/Federal Closed

08-04-97

Grafton/2 3,185 630,000 625,000 CE/Fee

Federal

Closed

06-11-97

3. Smarts 

Mountain

Lyme 

Timber #2 

(Roy T. 

Van Vleck)

Grafton/2 80 17,000 17,000 CE/Fee

Federal

Closed

06-11-97

4. Smarts 

Mountain 

Lyme 

Timber #3 

(Reservoir 

Pond)

Grafton/2 90 25,700 25,000 CE/Fee

Federal

Closed

06-11-97

5. Smarts 

Mountain 

Lyme 

Timber #4 

(Dartmouth 

College)

Grafton/2 556 205,750 205,750 CE/Fee

Federal

Closed

06-11-97

6. Jahoda

(Pittsburg)

Coos/2 344 105,000 105,000 CE/Federal Closed

04-26-96

7. Jahoda/

Johnson

(Clarksville)

Coos/2 56 52,000 52,000 CE/Federal Closed

04-26-96

8. Piermont

Mountain

Grafton/2 1,650 219,000 219,000 CE/State Closed

05-30-97

9a. James

River

Coos/2 446 2,000,000 0 Fee/State Closed

07-29-92

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

9b. James 

River

Coos/2 2,559 0 0 CE/State Closed

07-29-92
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Project Name

and No.

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

16. Pond of 

Safety 

Phase II

Coos/2 1,840 1,500,000 1,000,000 CE/State Funded

Total Funded (4 projects) 35,188 6,832,960 5,570,000

Total Closed (14 projects) 12,797 5,111,750 1,803,750

Potential

Future

Projects

(3 projects) 3,750 3,266,666 2,450,000

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Susan Francher, State Contact

603) 868-7695 (phone) (603) 271-3456 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) sfrancher@dred.state.nh.us (e-mail)

For More Information

10. Oxford

Paper Co.

Coos/2 602 1,000,000 0 Fee/State Closed

12-21-92

11.Union 

Water

Power 

Company

Coos/2 24 167,300 0 Fee/State Closed

12-21-92

12. Sullivan Coos/2 122 30,000 0 Fee/State Closed

01-11-93

13. Pingree Coos/2 16 75,000 0 Fee/State Closed

06-21-93

14. Hurlburt 

Swamp

Coos/2 313 30,000 0 Fee/State Closed

06-17-93

15. Pond of 

Safety 

Phase I

Coos/2 9,940 1,500,000 1,500,000 CE/State Funded

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

New Hampshire-Cont.

17. Bunnel 

Mountain 

(Blue)

Coos/2 18,608 2,232,960 1,670,000 CE/State Funded

18. Ossipee

Mtns. 

Carroll/2 4,800 1,600,000 1,400,000 CE/State Funded
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Project Name

and No.

1. RTC/FDIC*

2. Buck

Mountain

Morris/11 145 412,000 412,000 Fee/Federal Closed

12-19-97

Morris/11 1,200 4,300,000 200,000 Fee/Federal Closed

01-09-97

3. Meriden Morris/11 295 7,000,000 350,000 Fee/State Closed

06-22-00

4. Highlands

Greenway

Sussex/5&11 249 858,800 600,000 Fee/State Funded

5. Macopin Passaic/5 700 1,400,000 700,000 CE/State Closed

12-29-00

6. Farny

Highlands

Morris/11 525 3,000,000 750,000 Fee/State Funded

7. Newark 

Watershed 

Phase IV

Total Funded (3 projects) 3,474 6,358,800 1,621,000

Total Closed (4 projects) 2,340 13,112,000 1,662,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(6 projects) 11,345 40,205,000 16,735,000

Morris/11 2,700 2,500,000 271,000 CE/State Funded

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Margaret Waldock, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (609) 292-7694 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) mwaldock@state.nj.us (e-mail)

For More Information

*Resolution Trust Corporation/Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

New Jersey

AON Approval Date: 10-26-94

• Protect some of the last extensive unbroken forests in New Jersey

• Provide a great diversity of natural resources

• Protect high-quality drinking water supplies

• Protect important and unique wildlife habitats and critical migration routes

• Provide public recreation opportunities

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Project Name

and No.

1. Denino 

Indian Lake

2. Brown

Hamilton/24 141 86,000 86,000 CE/Federal Closed

08-24-94

Oneida/23 119 120,000 120,000 CE/Federal Closed

04-21-97

3. Pownal 

Tanning

Rensselaer/22 278 81,000 81,000 Fee/State Closed

12-29-97

4. Fox Rensselaer/22 100 50,000 50,000 Fee/State Closed

12-29-97

5. Greene

Frog

Greene/22 70 66,000 66,000 Fee/State Closed

08-17-00

6. Sable

Highlands

Clinton/24 105,000 10,000,000 500,000 CE/State Funded

7. East Branch 

Fish Creek

Total Funded (3 projects) 152,900 15,350,000 1,722,000

Total Closed (6 projects) 1,555 4,673,000 603,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(2 projects) 133,500 22,000,000 6,000,000

Lewis/24 47,300 5,000,000 872,000 CE/Fee

State

Funded

8. George

Allen, NY

Rensselaer/22 600 350,000 350,000 CE/Fee

State

Funded

9. Sterling

Forest I/9

Clinton/20 847 4,270,000 200,000 Fee/State Closed

12-11-00

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Jim Beil, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (518) 402-9405 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) jbeil.dec@state.ny.us (e-mail)

For More Information

New York

AON Approval Date: 10-26-94

AON Amendment Date: 12-10-98

• Protect traditional forest uses

• Provide public recreation opportunities

• Protect water quality

• Protect scenic quality

• Provide wildlife habitat

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Elizabeth Crane, Forest Service Contact Dr. Mark Megalos, State Contact

(404) 347-5214 (phone) (919) 733-2162 ext. 254 (phone)

ecrane@fs.fed.us (e-mail) Mark.Megalos@ncmail.net (e-mail)

For More Information

Project Name

and No.

1. Town Creek 

Phase I

2. Town Creek 

Phase II 

(Duckhead 

& Boise 

Tracts)

Brunswick/7 1,082 2,288,000 1,400,000 CE/State Closed

12-14-00

Brunswick/7 1,738 3,750,000 2,700,000 CE/State Funded

Total Funded (1 projects) 1,738 3,750,000 2,700,000

Total Closed (1 projects) 1,082 2,288,000 1,400,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(6 projects) 11,807 14,001,500 8,516,125

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

North Carolina

AON Approval Date: 02-29-00

• Maintain large, contiguous blocks of working forests as part of current and future landscapes

• Conserve diversity of forest types and wildlife habitats

• Connect designated preserves, establish corridors, and reduce landscape fragmentation

• Provide wildlife habitats for endangered and protected species

• Restore and conserve longleaf pine communities

• Restore forest integrity by reintroducing declining species and promoting bottomland forest 

regeneration

• Encourage protection of scenic vistas

• Buffer unique natural areas, recreational trails, and routes

• Enhance protection of water quality, State nutrient-sensitive waters, and water supply 

watersheds

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Project Name

and No.

1. Hernandez 

Guánica S.F.

2. Lopez

Guánica S.F.

Guánica/AL* 61 145,000 135,000 Fee/PR Closed

01-19-01

Guánica/AL* 135 348,200 348,200 Fee/PR Closed

02-01-01

3. Matos

Guánica S.F.

Guánica/AL* 81 308,500 308,500 Fee/PR Closed

02-01-01

4. Gripinas

Toro Negro

Jayuya/AL* 498 256,500 0 Fee/PR Closed

03-30-00

5. La Nuez–

Guilarte

Adjuntas/AL* 71 36,500 0 Fee/PR Closed

03-30-00

6. Mogotes–

Guilarte

Yauco/AL* 238 123,000 0 Fee/PR Closed

03-30-00

7. Fraticelli–

Guilarte

Total Funded (2 projects) 1,517 1,933,600 1,180,000

Total Closed (9 projects) 1,429 1,576,875 791,700

Potential 

Future 

Projects

(4 projects) 4,600 7,100,000 5,300,000

Adjuntas/AL* 41 21,000 0 Fee/PR Closed

03-30-00

8. Busigó–

Maricao

Maricao/AL* 257 223,175 0 Fee/PR Closed

03-15-00

9. Mikasobe–

Carite

Guayama/AL* 47 115,000 0 Fee/PR Closed

05-03-00

11. Karst 

Initiative 

(Rio Abajo)

1,100 1,180,000 1,180,000 Fee/PR Funded

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment ($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

*At Large

Puerto Rico

AON Approval Date: 10-30-97

• Protect and restore forested areas in watersheds developed as sources of public water supply

• Maintain buffer zones of existing forest reserves

• Conserve forested areas in primary, or close to primary, conditions

• Conserve biodiversity and unique features

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

UtuadoArecibo/AL*

10. Sucn.

Bauzá–Tres 

Picachos

417 753,600 0 Fee/PR Funded

Ciales/AL*
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Terry Hoffman, Forest Service Contact Daniel Galan, State Contact

(787) 766-5335 (phone) (787) 724-3724 (phone)

thoffman@fs.fed.us (e-mail) PRForests@hotmail.com (e-mail)

For More Information

Puerto Rico-Cont.
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Project Name

and No.

1. Wright

2. Brownell

Providence/2 132 50,000 50,000 CE/State Closed

05-27-99

Kent/2 80 155,000 155,000 CE/State Closed

02-15-99

3. Mt. Tom 

Trail

Kent/2 145 270,000 270,000 CE/State Closed

12-28-99

4. Gammell Washington/2 75 445,000 445,000 CE/State Closed

12-01-98

5. Cork Brook Providence/2 49 250,000 250,000 CE/State Funded

6. Duval Trail

Corridor 

West

Washington/2 166 360,000 360,000 CE/State Closed

02-21-01

7. Long & Ell 

Ponds–

South

Total Funded (3 projects) 763 1,426,000 1,096,000

Total Closed (5 projects) 598 1,280,000 1,280,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(3 projects) 331 1,263,000 946,000

Washington/2 640 880,000 550,000 CE/State Funded

8. South Road Washington/2 74 296,000 296,000 CE/State Funded

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Rhode Island

AON Approval Date: 12-30-93

• Protect significant forest tracts

• Protect watersheds of public drinking water supplies

• Add on to existing public open space

• Provide public recreation opportunities

• Protect threatened and endangered species habitats

Overall Goals

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Paul Ricard, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (401) 647-3367 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) pricard@dem.state.ri.us (e-mail)

For More Information

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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South Carolina

AON Approval Date: 02-07-00

• Identify and protect environmentally important forest land threatened with conversion to 

nonforest uses

• Protect river systems and wetlands and their associated upland habitats

• Increase the opportunity for public recreation

• Reduce forest fragmentation caused by development

• Provide environmental benefits through the restoration and protection of riparian zones and 

native forest plants 

• Provide for watershed and water supply protection

• Provide employment opportunities and economic stability through maintenance of 

traditional forest uses

• Maintain important scenic resources of the State

• Protect rare, threatened, or endangered species of plants and animals

• Promote forest stewardship

• Promote best management practices for forestry

• Provide for educational and research opportunities

• Provide buffer areas to already-protected areas

• Enhance forest diversity

Overall Goals

Project Name

and No.

1. Shooting 

Tree

2. Coastal 

Forest 

Ecosystem 

Initiative

Pickens/3 6,890 1,428,000 975,000 Fee/State Closed

12-07-99

Hampton &

Jasper/2, 6

7,200 8,000,000 3,000,000 CE/Fee Funded

3. Ashmore

Clamp

Greenville/4 480 600,000 0 CE/Fee Funded

4. Congaree 

Bluff

Calhoun/4 200 850,000 0 CE/Fee Funded

5. Thurmond

Bishop

Union/4 TBA TBA TBA CE/Fee Funded

6. Boggy

Branch

Hampton/4 180 245,000 TBA CE/Fee Funded

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value of

Interest ($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Total Funded (5 projects) 8,060 9,695,000 3,000,000

Total Closed (1 projects) 6,890 1,428,000 975,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(2 projects) 23,049 86,000,000 13,000,000
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Elizabeth Crane, Forest Service Contact John Frampton, State Contact

(404) 347-5214 (phone) (803) 734-3937 (phone)

ecrane@fs.fed.us (e-mail) pensminger@mail.state.tn.us (e-mail)

For More Information

South Carolina-Cont.
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Project Name

and No.

1.North 

Chickamauga

Creek 

(ultra)

2.North 

Chickamauga

Creek 

(C. Patten)

Hamilton/3 50 3,500,000* 10,000 CE/State Funded

Hamilton/3 2,000 * 1,000,000 CE/State Funded

3. North 

Chickamauga

Creek (Casey)

Hamilton/3 2,232 * 1,042,940 CE/State Funded

4. North 

Chickamauga

Creek (B. Patten)

Hamilton/3 250 * 10,000 CE/State Funded

5. Middleton

Tract/Wautaug

FLA**

Carter/1 150 350,000 222,000 CE/State Funded

6. General 

Shale

Carter/1 55 230,000 10,000 Fee/State Funded

7. Archie Carter/1 28 206,000 10,000 Fee/State Funded

8. Roach Hamilton/3 120 370,000 10,000 Fee/State Funded

9. Patrick Hamilton/3 125 60,000 10,000 CE/State Funded

10. English Tipton/3 50 45,000 10,000 CE/State Funded

11. Bowden Tipton/3 65 35,750 30,750 CE/State Funded

Country/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

12. Simonton Lauderdale/3 243 96,000 96,000 CE/State Funded

13. Middlecoff Fayette/3 652 240,200 220,000 CE/State Funded

*Total value includes all four tracts

**Forest Legacy Areas

Tennessee

AON Approval Date: 02-07-00

• Prevent conversion of forest land to other uses

• Preserve and protect fish and wildlife habitats, rare plants, and biological diversity

• Preserve and protect riparian habitats

• Preserve and protect water quality, fisheries, and water supplies

• Preserve and protect natural beauty

• Preserve and protect forest-based recreation opportunities

• Preserve forest land for current and future wood production

Overall Goals
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Total Funded (13 projects) 6,020 5,132,950 2,681,690

Potential

Future

Projects

(6 projects) 17,553 15,231,000 6,866,000

Elizabeth Crane, Forest Service Contact Paul Ensminger, State Contact

(404) 347-5214 (phone) (423) 263-1626 (phone)

ecrane@fs.fed.us (e-mail) pensminger@mail.state.tn.us (e-mail)

For More Information

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Tennessee-Cont.
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Utah

AON Approval Date: 02-27-97

• Prevent future conversions of forest land and forest resources

• Protect and enhance water quality and water supplies

• Protect wildlife habitat and maintain habitat connectivity and related values needed to ensure

biodiversity

• Protect riparian areas

• Maintain and restore natural ecosystem functions

• Maintain forest sustainability and the cultural and economic vitality of rural communities

Overall Goals

Project Name

and No.

1. Range 

Creek-Allred

2a. East*

Canyon

Carbon/3 837 370,000 370,000 CE/State Closed

01-14-00

Morgan/3 1,790 1,800,000 900,000 CE/State Closed

06-06-99

2b. East*

Canyon

Morgan/3 5,510 4,600,000 0 CE/State Funded

3. Chalk 

Creek

Summit/3 8,890 8,540,000 0 CE/State Closed

06-03-99

5a. Bar J. 

Ranch

Phase I

Sevier/3 5,775 5,870,000 1,200,000 CE/State Closed

12-22-00

5b. Bar J. 

Ranch

Phase II

Sevier/3 1,964 1,765,000 0 CE/State Closed

05-16-01

6. Coalville 

Total Funded (3 projects) 9,193 7,611,000 2,250,000

Total Closed (7 projects) 20,541 21,475,000 4,770,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(7 projects) 77,746 57,750,000 27,730,000

Summit/3 2,805 2,575,000 1,950,000 CE/State Funded

7. Range

Creek-Jensen

Carbon/3 878 436,000 300,000 CE/State Funded

8. Summit 

Park

Summit/3 325 1,600,000 800,000 CE/State Closed

05-16-01

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment ($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

4. Panguitch Garfield/3 933 1,530,000 1,500,000 CE/State Closed

04-12-00

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

*Peaceful Valley Ranch
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Paul Ries, Forest Service Contact Ann Price, State Contact

(801) 625-5253 (phone) (801) 538-5555 (phone)

pries@fs.fed.us (e-mail) Nrslf.aprice@state.ut.us (e-mail)

For More Information

Utah-Cont.
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Vermont

AON Approval Date: 02-11-94

• Protect large contiguous and productive forest blocks

• Protect habitats for wildlife dependent on large contiguous forest blocks

• Protect threatened and endangered species habitats

• Protect State fragile areas and underdeveloped shorelines

• Protect significant wetlands

• Protect important recreation corridors

Overall Goals

Project Name

and No.

1. Cow 

Mountain 

Pond

2. Atlas 

(Elmore)

Essex/AL* 1,660 271,000 271,000 Fee/Federal Closed

04-20-93

Lamoille/AL* 2,281 342,000 342,000 CE/Federal Closed

05-18-94

3. Wilderness 

Corporation

Windsor/AL* 2,086 620,000 618,000 CE/State Closed

10-02-96

4. Green River

Reservoir

Lamoille/AL* 5,113 2,526,000 1,776,000 Fee/Federal Closed

03-30-99

5. Hancock Essex &

Orleans/AL*

31,450 2,847,000 2,500,000 CE/State Closed

12-20-96

6.Conservation

Fund

Windsor/AL* 560 222,000 200,000 CE/State Closed

09-07-97

7. McConnell

Pond

Essex/AL* 4,790 928,000 0 CE/State Closed

12-16-94

8. Lowell 

Mountain

Orleans/AL* 1,241 177,000 0 CE/State Closed

12-16-94

9. Pierce Rutland/AL* 235 141,000 0 CE/State Closed

12-16-94

10. Peacham Caledonia/AL* 730 210,000 0 CE/State Closed

12-16-94

11. Stockey Orleans/AL* 809 96,000 0 CE/State Closed

12-16-94

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest

($)

FLP

Payment ($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

12. Mt. Holly

Wildlife

Corridor 

Lands

Windsor/AL* 1,186 450,000 375,000 CE/State Funded

13. Northern

Forest

Tracts

Essex/AL* 4,886 1,470,000 795,000 CE/Fee

State

Funded
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Total Funded (2 projects) 6,072 1,920,000 1,170,000

Total Closed (11 projects) 50,955 8,380,000 5,707,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(5 projects) 6,066 3,333,332 2,500,000

Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Kate Willard, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (802) 241-3697 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) kwillard@fpr.anr.state.vt.us (e-mail)

For More Information

*At Large

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Vermont-Cont.
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Virginia

AON Approval Date: 01-16-01

• Protect Virginia’s forest for future generations

• Use conservation easements as the prime tool

Overall Goals

Elizabeth Crane, Forest Service Contact Mike Foreman, State Contact

(404) 347-5214 (phone) (804) 977-6555 (phone)

ecrane@fs.fed.us (e-mail) foreman@dof.state.va.us (e-mail)

For More Information

Project Name

and No.

1. Gwathmey

2. Coles Point

King William 568 800,000 400,000

Bath 1,111 1,198,800 597,800

Total Funded (2 projects) 1,679 1,998,800 997,800

Potential

Future

Projects

(4 projects) 2,868 8,336,000 2,820,000

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment ($)

CE/State

CE/State

Funded

Funded

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Washington

AON Approval Date: 10-26-94

• Protect water quality

• Provide habitats for native fish, wildlife, or plants

• Provide present or future timber management opportunities

Overall Goals

Project Name

and No.

3. Plum 

Creek I

4. Plum 

Creek II

King/8 559 2,727,000 612,000 CE/Federal Closed

06-28-96

King/8 120 1,413,000 1,413,000 Fee/Federal Closed

02-14-97

5. Plum 

Creek III

King/8 160 1,575,000 52,000 CE/Fee/

Federal

Closed

04-11-97

6. Grouse 

Ridge & 

Middle Fork

King/8 1,732 6,002,000 1,145,000 CE/State Closed

06-26-98

7. Leong

River

King/8 52 865,000 599,000 CE/State Closed

09-29-00

8. Forest 

Gateway 

Edge I

King/8 115 1,970,000 1,191,000 CE/State Closed

07-27-00

10.Mitchell

Hill East

King/8 425 4,245,000 995,000 CE/State

Fee/County

Closed

12-05-00

11.

Rattlesnake

Ridge I

(Kimball

Creek)

King/8 80 1,150,000 968,000 CE/State Funded

12. Issaquah 

Creek 

Headwaters 

II

King/8 462 3,850,000 2,700,000 CE/State Funded

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment ($)

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

1. Lind

2. WRECO

King/8 130 1,200,000 1,200,000 Fee/Federal Closed

05-15-95

King/8 260 1,784,000 1,784,000 Fee/Federal Closed

12-22-95

9. Forest 

Gateway 

Edge II

King/8 46 910,000 610,000 CE/State Closed

10-09-00
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Ray Abriel, Forest Service Contact Brad Pruitt, State Contact

(503) 808-2355 (phone) (360) 902-1102 (phone)

rabriel@fs.fed.us (e-mail) brad.Pruitt@wadnr.gov (e-mail)

For More Information

Total Funded (2 project) 542 5,000,000 3,668,000

Total Closed (10 projects) 3,599 22,691,000 9,601,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(6 projects) 645 9,700,000 7,550,000

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment

Washington-Cont.
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Deirdre Raimo, Forest Service Contact Linda DePaul, State Contact

(603) 868-7695 (phone) (608) 266-2388 (phone)

draimo@fs.fed.us (e-mail) depaul@mail01.dnr.state.wi.us (e-mail)

For More Information

Project Name

and No.

1. Tomahawk

Woods

Oneida, Vilas,

Marathon,

Lincoln, Iron,

& Forest/7, 8

77,000 34,500,000 1,000,000

Total Funded (1 projects) 77,000 34,500,000 1,000,000

Potential

Future

Projects

(2 projects) 24,063 23,000,000 16,000,000

County/

Town/

Congressional

District No.

No. of 

Acres

Estimated

Total Value 

of Interest 

($)

FLP

Payment 

($)

CE/State Funded

CE/Fee 

and

Ownership

Status

and/or

Closing

Date

Wisconsin

AON Approval Date: 01-16-01

Minimize fragmentation and conversion of significant forested areas to nonforest uses through the

wise administration of conservation easements that focus on the sustainable use of forest resources

Overall Goals

No. Projects No.

Acres

Estimated

Total Value

of Interest ($)

FLP

Payment
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Forest Legacy Success Stories

Conversion of land via development poses the most significant threat to the sustainability of

North Carolina’s forests, of which 84 percent are privately owned. It is the sixth fastest growing

State in the United States and averaged a loss of 156,000 acres of productive forest land from

1992 through 1997. Dramatic population growth is changing North Carolina from 

a predominantly rural State to an urban State. Urban development and a tremendous increase 

in retirement and resort communities threaten these forests.

The goal of the North Carolina Forest Legacy Program:

Maintaining working forests as part of the current and future landscapes. 

The conservation objectives of the North Carolina Forest Legacy Program are as follows:

• Maintain large, contiguous blocks of working forests in current and future landscapes.

• Conserve diversity of forest types and wildlife habitat.

• Connect designated preserves, establish corridors, and reduce landscape fragmentation.

• Provide wildlife habitat for endangered and protected species.

• Restore and conserve longleaf pine communities.

• Restore forest integrity by reintroducing declining species and promoting bottomland forest 

regeneration.

• Encourage protection of scenic vistas.

• Buffer unique natural areas, recreation trails, and routes.

• Enhance protection of water quality, State nutrient-sensitive waters, and water supply 

watersheds.

How is North Carolina implementing the Forest Legacy Program?

The Forest Legacy Steering Committee focuses its attention on links between North Carolina’s

forests and quality of life. This includes conservation values, community values, and economic 

values. Public-private partnerships are key to implementing the North Carolina Forest Legacy

Program and the North Carolina Million Acres Initiative. Using a mix of State, Federal, and 

local funds, the programs develop projects at the grassroots level with willing landowners. 

Local partners work collaboratively to match the landowners’ forest management objectives, 

the interests of the community, and the resource values being conserved. 

How one landowner’s participating...

International Paper (IP) is a leader in the forest product industry’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative

and it was the first U.S. forest products company to achieve International Standards Organization

(ISO) 14001 certification on its forest land. Every acre of company land is regenerated by

replanting, using natural reforestation. In addition to protecting threatened and endangered

species, such as the red-cockaded woodpecker, IP

invests in habitat development and voluntarily sets

aside lands that have unique ecological, biological,

or cultural significance.

Highlights of 

North Carolina 

Forest Legacy

Program

NC Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., International Paper Executive Vice President 

Wes Smith, and children from Bellview Elementary School. Camilla Herlevich,

attorney and executive director of the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust, is in the

background holding the conservation easements documents in a blue folder.
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The Rhode Island

Philosophy

Clean water, cool shade, scenic countryside, and the opportunity to hike, hunt, or pursue other

recreational activities are the thoughts that come to mind when thinking about the values and

benefits derived from Rhode Island’s forest landscape. Because of the absence of a significant 

commercial forest products industry, the harvest of timber products has traditionally consisted 

of cordwood, fuel wood, pallet stock, and sawlogs, undertaken on small woodlots privately owned

by our “land rich” forest landowners, most of whom have quietly owned and managed their land

for decades. To maximize the potential of their land to provide the variety of forest values they

cherished, many have taken advantage of past landowner assistance programs. Most planned to

leave their land to their heirs. Surveys consistently find that income is one of the least important

reasons why these landowners own, manage, or harvest wood products.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s many people wanted to share in the peaceful and simple

lifestyle offered by living in the country, and they could now afford to do so. As the supply of

single-family house lots dwindled, some developers set their sites on the larger parcels, which were

usually forested, and presented landowners what many thought to be obscenely high offers for

developable land. Many landowners, not wanting to cheat their heirs out of their 

inheritance, declined to sell at first, which contributed to skyrocketing land values. 

Meanwhile, financially strapped rural communities mistakenly thought that income generated

from new tax money would meet the increasing tax debt, and therefore encouraged new 

development. This new development, however, only led to a need to increase property taxes as 

the costs for community services outpaced the increased tax revenues. Faced with a mounting 

tax burden, many large-tract landowners felt compelled to sell their land, first by subdividing 

and selling smaller parcels, then eventually by selling the entire tract. It did not take long to

notice the loss of the rural character that people had come to expect. Furthermore, the natural

resource values that forest lands provide were in jeopardy.

It was against this backdrop that the Rhode Island Forest Legacy Program was born. It was with

great anticipation that Rhode Island embarked on its goal of protecting important forest resources

through this long-overdue land protection strategy.

In 1991, then-Governor Sundlun appointed the Rhode Island Department of Environmental

Management’s Division of Forest Environment and its Office of Planning and Development as

co-lead agencies for the Forest Legacy Program: Forest Environment for its expertise in forest

resources and its well-established landowner relationships, and Planning and Development for its

expertise in land acquisition, relationships with nonprofit organizations, and access to funding

sources.

The State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee empowered a subcommittee, the Forest Legacy

Committee, to develop and coordinate the program with the State lead agencies. The committee’s

mission was to protect the traditional forest uses and values provided by State forest land. 

The establishment of Rhode Island’s Forest Legacy Areas was resource based. Where was the 

existing forest cover? Where were the significant public drinking water aquifers? Already protected

lands? Threatened and endangered species? And where was urban sprawl most threatening to

forested resources?
Forest Legacy Program National Report 2001 85

When someone analyzed this data, the location of the State’s forest legacy areas became startlingly 

self-evident. Virtually the entire western half of the State and a small section in the eastern part

were selected as the “Mainland” and “East Bay” Forest Legacy Areas. Together, these two areas

total about 250,000 acres of forest land, nearly 66 percent of our total available forested habitat.

Within these areas it is estimated that 3,000 landowners own parcels greater than 25 acres. Fewer

than 1,100 private landowners own more than 50 acres, only a few hundred own more than 100

acres, and only a handful own 500 acres or more (Birch, 1994).

To be eligible for the program, landowners must own parcels greater than 25 acres that lie at 

least partially within a Forest Legacy Area boundary. Someone evaluates qualifying parcels for the

natural resource values and benefits they are capable of providing, the perceived degree of threat 

of conversion of the parcel to a nonforest use, the landowner's expressed willingness to participate

in a bargain sale, and the determination of whether a willing third party is participating in the

acquisition, management, or monitoring of interests acquired. The Forest Legacy Committee

favors conservation easement sales over fee simple acquisitions. The Rhode Island Forest Legacy

Programs are intent on keeping forest land in private ownership.
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The Utah Forest Legacy

Program—The Peaceful

Valley Ranch

It started with a promise to hold on to the land that had been in the family since 1918. The Utah

Forest Legacy Program purchased a conservation easement that allows the program to keep title

and rights to the land while preventing development. This process included a 2-year negotiation,

involved more than 50 shareholders, initiated the partnering with numerous agencies and public

groups, and resulted in the protection of 16,190 acres of prime Utah land.

As part of this protected land, the 7,300 acre Peaceful Valley Ranch is a working ranch located

just a short drive from Park City or Salt Lake City. It is located in a vital watershed area known as

East Canyon. Several historic trails pass through the ranch, including the Donner-Reed, Mormon

Pioneer, California Overland Stage, and Pony Express trails. Also on the property are a historic

farmhouse, barn, and restored Bauchman Pony Express Station, which is listed on the National

Register of Historic Places.

Peaceful Valley illustrates the pastoral beauty of northern Utah, with mountainsides of coniferous

forests of Douglas fir, Engleman spruce, white and sub-alpine fir, stands of quaking aspen, rich

riparian corridors of cottonwood and willow, and lush valleys providing habitat for abundant

wildlife. The ranch contains significant habitat for elk, mule deer, moose, mountain lion, bobcat,

songbirds, bald eagles, golden eagles, sandhill cranes, blue heron, great horned owls, the American

kestrel, and numerous other interesting and important wildlife species. Hundreds of migratory elk

depend on the ranch for winter feeding and breeding grounds. 

The Peaceful Valley Ranch is a great example of public-private partnerships working to protect

open space in Utah. “This project is the embodiment, in my mind, of the ethic that needs to

capture all of us,” said Governor Mike Leavitt at a site visit to the ranch. The project provided an

opportunity for partnerships that reached out statewide. The Trust for Public Lands (TPL)

provided expertise and advice to help negotiate this complicated transaction with more than 50

shareholders. FLP support through the USDA Forest Service, Region 4 Office, was essential in

planning and funding the project. The newly established Utah Quality Growth Commission

awarded its first grant to the project in the amount of $700,000. The partner participation

expanded to include the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Utah Open Lands, and several private

foundations. Additional project supporters included the Historic Trails Foundation; National Park

Service, Long Distance Trails Office; State of Utah, Department of Natural Resources (Division of

Wildlife Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, Division of Water Resources, Division of

Water Quality); and Trout Unlimited. 

The appraised value of the easement was $6.4 million. The family donated $4 million in value,

which left $2.4 million needed to complete the project. Once again, TLP organized a fundraising

effort, which was then supplemented with the State grant and $900,000 from the Forest Legacy

Program.

“The landowners’ generosity and dedication—and the hard work of many people—have created

this opportunity,” said TPL Project Manager Deb Frey. “The recent awards from the State Quality

Growth Commission and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation have put success within our reach.” 
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While negotiations proceeded with the Peaceful Valley Ranch, family members realized that the

land protection approach may be a way to protect their family property. Located just a few miles

from the Peaceful Valley Ranch, other family ranches contain the watershed for Chalk Creek,

from the snow-covered peaks and alpine lakes forming the headwaters, to the rich pasture land

and meadows below. The 8,890-acre working ranch includes thick stands of aspen, ponderosa

pine, spruce, and gambel oak, providing habitat for bear, elk, deer, mountain lion, bobcat, rainbow

and brown trout, and numerous other species.

The landowners chose to donate a conservation easement worth $8,540,000 to the State to

ensure that traditional uses of the ranch would remain viable for future generations. The easement

will allow the landowners to continue grazing cattle and sheep; lease the property for hunting,

fishing, helicopter skiing, and timber harvesting; and construct a maximum of six home sites in a

designated building envelope.

The completion of this project exemplifies the array of pieces that compose the puzzle of 

conservation easements—the power of public-private partnership, the financial assistance from

State and private groups, substantial donations from the landowners, and perhaps of most 

importance, landowners who have their heart and soul in the land and want future generations 

to enjoy that same feeling.
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Nicatous Forest Legacy

Project Wins the

“TAKING WING” Award

TAKING WING, a USDA Forest Service program, in partnership with Ducks Unlimited, Inc.,

with the mission to be a partner in managing wetland ecosystems for waterfowl and wetland

wildlife, presents awards to USDA Forest Service units/employees and partners who enhance

wildlife habitat. The Nicatous Lake Forest Legacy project won the Habitat Award, one of four

Taking Wing awards for 2001. The Nicatous Lake project, located in northeastern Maine, was

chosen because the USDA Forest Service cooperated with partners to protect critical riparian

shoreline and wetlands by providing funding and technical assistance in the acquisition of a conservation easement of more than 20,268 acres. The undeveloped shoreline provides habitat for

loons and other waterfowl in perpetuity. This is the first time a Taking Wing award has been

awarded to a USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry unit. The Habitat Award was presented to representatives of the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area, the Maine Forest Service,

the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, the Forest Society of Maine, the Trust for Public Land, Robbins

Lumber, Inc., and Champion International. Robbins Lumber, Inc., and its former land managers,

Champion International, agreed to restrict their management activities on this property for waterfowl habitat enhancement. The USDA Forest Service and partners of the Taking Wing program

received the awards at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference on 

March 17, 2001. For more information visit http://www.jwdc.com/wmi/specialevents.html
Forest Legacy Program National Report 2001 89

California

Andrea Tuttle

Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

Resources Building

P.O. Box 944246

1416 9th St., Rm. 1505

Sacramento, CA 94244-2460

(501) 296-1941

Connecticut

Donald H. Smith

Division of Forestry

79 Elm Street

Hartford, CT 06106

(806) 424-3630

Delaware

E. Austin Short, III

Department of Agriculture

Forestry Section

2320 S. DuPont Highway

Dover, DE 19901

(202) 698-4548

Hawaii

Michael G. Buck

Division of Forestry and Wildlife

1151 Punchbowl Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

(808) 587-0166

Illinois

Stewart Pequignot

Division of Forest Resources

524 S. Second Street

P.O. Box 19225

Springfield, IL 62794-9225

(217) 278-5773

Indiana

Burnell C. Fisher 

Department of Natural Resources

402 W. Washington Street – Rm. W296

Indianapolis, IN 46204

(317) 232-4105

Maine

Tom Doak

Maine Forest Service

22 State House Station

Harlow Building

Augusta, ME 04333

(207) 287-2791

Maryland

Steve Koehn

Maryland Forest Service

Department of Natural Resources 

Tawes State Office Building

580 Taylor Avenue, E-1

Annapolis, MD 21401

(410) 260-8502

Massachusetts

Warren Archey

Department of Environmental Management –

Bureau of Forestry

P.O. Box 1433

Pittsfield, MA 01202

(413) 442-8928 ext. 33

Minnesota

Bob Tomlinson, Acting Director

Division of Forestry

500 Lafayette Road

St. Paul, MN 55155-4044

(651) 296-4485

Participating State Lead Agencies 
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Montana

Jeff Hagerer

Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks

P.O. Box 20071

Helena, MT 59620-0701

(406) 444-2535

New Hampshire

Philip Bryce

Division of Forests and Lands

Box 1856

172 Pembroke Road

Concord, NH 03302-1856

(603) 271-2214

New Jersey

James S. Barresi

State Forestry Service

P.O. Box 404

Trenton, NJ 08625-0404

(609) 292-2520

New York

Eric Crotty

State Department of Environmental

Conservation

625 Broadway 

Albany, NY 12233

(518) 402-8540

Puerto Rico

Diego Jimenez Carrion

USDA Forest Service Bureau – DNER

P.O. Box 906600, Puerto de Tierra Station

San Juan, PR 00906-6600

(787) 724-3647

Rhode Island

Thomas A. Dupree

Division of Forest Environment

1037 Hartford Pike

North Scituate, RI 02857

(401) 647-3367

South Carolina

John Frampton

Department of Natural Resources

P.O. Box 167

Columbia, SC 29202

(803) 734-3888

Tennessee

Ken S. Arney

Tennessee Department of Agriculture

Division of Forestry

P.O. Box 40627

Melrose Station

Nashville, TN 37204

(615) 837-5520

Utah

Art DuFault

Department of Natural Resources

1594 W. Temple, Suite 3520

Salt Lake City, UT 84114-5703

(801) 538-5466

Vermont

Conrad Motyka

Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation

103 S. Main Street

Waterbury, VT 05671-0601

(802) 241-3670
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Virginia

James W. Garner

Virginia Department of Forestry

900 Natural Resources Drive, Suite 800

Charlottesville, VA 22903

(804) 977-6555

Washington

Pat McElroy

Washington Department of Natural Resources

P.O. Box 47037

1111 Washington Street

Olympia, WA 98504-7037

(360) 902-1105

Wisconsin

Gene Francisco

Wisconsin DNR Bureau of Forestry

P.O. Box 7921

101 S. Webster Street

Madison, WI 53707-7921

(608) 266-2694
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Contributors

Prepared by:

Cheryl Bailey

Program Analyst

USDA Forest Service

Cooperative Forestry Staff

Washington, DC

Thanks to the following people for their special contributions to this report:

Ted Beauvais, Assistant Director, Cooperative Forestry, Washington, DC

Rick Cooksey, Forest Legacy Program Manager, Cooperative Forestry, Washington, DC

Caron Gibson, Cooperative Forestry, Washington, DC

Renee Green-Smith, Office of Communication, Washington, DC

Dan Ernst, Division of Forestry, Indianapolis, Indiana 

Greg Meuwissen, Controlled Correspondence Unit, Washington, DC

Karl Perry, Office of Communication, Washington, DC

Barbara Reed, Cooperative Forestry, Washington, DC

Blanche Queen, Office of Communication, Washington, DC

Regional and State Forest Legacy Managers

Geographic Information Systems Specialists:

Neal Bungard, Northeastern Area, Durham, New Hampshire

Tom Luther, Northeastern Area, Durham, New Hampshire