Forestry Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004

Forestry Legacy Program

National Report for 

Fiscal Year 2004

United States

Department of

Agriculture

Forest Service

FS-816

December 2004
United States

Department of

Agriculture

Forest Service

FS-816

December 2004

Forest Legacy Program

National Report for

Fiscal Year 2004
For more information, contact the following:

Director, Cooperative Forestry

202–205–1389

Forest Legacy Program Manager

202–205–1469

Web site: http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/coop/programs/loa/flp.shtml

Photo Credits 

Cover and page 7: Nicatous Lake in Hancock County, Maine, courtesy of Alan Hutchinson. 

Back cover and page 2: Wooden Fence in Bar J, Utah, courtesy of Ann Price.

Page i: View from Homestead, Colorado, courtesy of Susan Gray. 

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, or 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, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-

5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
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Message From Larry Payne, Director, 

Cooperative Forestry 

Forests provide communities with a variety of benefits, including jobs, timber and other

forest products, healthy water supplies, recreational opportunities, cultural and historic

resources, habitat, carbon sequestration, and aesthetics and scenic views, just to name a

few. More than half of the forest land within the United States is privately owned.

Between 1997 and 2002, approximately 820,000 acres of non-Federal forest land were

converted annually to development; this is a rate of almost 2,250 acres per day. With the

conversion of these lands and the loss of open space, the resources and services provided by these forest lands are also lost. To ensure the maintenance of these resources,

along with healthy economies and communities, it is essential that the United States

maintains healthy, productive, and sustainable forest land.

The State and Private Forestry organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest

Service partners with States and territories, tribes, local communities, nonprofit organizations, and private landowners to provide financial and technical assistance to landowners and resource managers to help sustain the Nation’s forests. Our mission is to

facilitate sound forest stewardship across lands of all ownerships through cost-effective,

nonregulatory partnerships, while maintaining the flexibility for individual forest
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landowners to pursue their objectives. On State, local, and privately owned 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 is a vital element of the mission of State and Private

Forestry. The program’s success is visible in the results, the outcome of which is a legacy of forests for future generations. I am pleased to present this report updating the status of the Forest Legacy Program. 
Executive Summary

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

implemented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, States, local

governments, land trusts, private landowners, and other partners. It provides financial

assistance, leveraged by non-Federal cost sharing, to prevent the fragmentation and conversion of private forest land. This program ensures that important forests remain intact

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

and the environment. The FLP is implemented by States that have joined the program;

support of the partner entities forms the backbone of the program and is critical to its

success. Since 2001, the FLP has achieved much success, including the following:

• The program now has 39 active States and territories. An additional eight States and

territories are in the process of developing implementation plans (Assessments of

Need) to join the program. 

• Since 2001, 15 States and territories (Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Colorado,

Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon,

Pennsylvania, U.S. Virgin Islands, and West Virginia) have joined the FLP. 

• The FLP budget has been increasing over the past 3 years—from $59.9 million in

2001 to $64 million in 2004. The President’s fiscal year 2005 budget request included

$100 million for the FLP, but was funded at $57.1 million.

• From the inception of the program in 1990, the FLP has conserved 1,001,057 acres,

with a value of over $361.2 million, through a program investment of nearly $183.3

million.

• In June 2003, the USDA Forest Service completed revisions to the FLP

Implementation Guidelines. The guidelines were completed through the hard work of

the dedicated State-USDA Forest Service team. 

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Contents

Message From Larry Payne, Director, Cooperative Forestry ............................................i

Executive Summary .........................................................................................................iii

Forest Legacy Program Overview.....................................................................................1

Budget History ..................................................................................................................2

Summary of Forest Legacy Program Accomplishments (as of September 30, 2004)......3

Map of Completed Projects (as of September 30, 2004)..................................................4

Fiscal Year 2005 Proposed Forest Legacy Program Project List ......................................5

Participating Forest Legacy Program States .....................................................................7

Alabama .....................................................................................................................8

Alaska.......................................................................................................................10

American Samoa ......................................................................................................12

California..................................................................................................................14

Colorado...................................................................................................................16

Connecticut...............................................................................................................18

Delaware...................................................................................................................22

Georgia .....................................................................................................................24

Hawaii.......................................................................................................................26

Idaho.........................................................................................................................28

Illinois.......................................................................................................................30

Indiana......................................................................................................................32

Iowa ..........................................................................................................................36

Kentucky ..................................................................................................................40

Maine........................................................................................................................42

Maryland ..................................................................................................................46

Massachusetts...........................................................................................................48

Michigan...................................................................................................................52

Minnesota.................................................................................................................54

Montana....................................................................................................................58

Nebraska...................................................................................................................62

New Hampshire........................................................................................................64

New Jersey ...............................................................................................................68

New Mexico .............................................................................................................70

New York ..................................................................................................................72

North Carolina..........................................................................................................74

Oregon......................................................................................................................76

Pennsylvania.............................................................................................................78
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Puerto Rico...............................................................................................................80

Rhode Island.............................................................................................................82

South Carolina..........................................................................................................86

Tennessee..................................................................................................................90

U.S. Virgin Islands....................................................................................................94

Utah ..........................................................................................................................96

Vermont ..................................................................................................................100

Virginia...................................................................................................................104

Washington.............................................................................................................106

West Virginia ..........................................................................................................110

Wisconsin ...............................................................................................................112

Contact Information for Participating State Lead Agencies.........................................115
Forest Legacy Program Overview

The Forest Legacy Program (FLP) was established in the 1990 Farm Bill to protect

environmentally important forest areas that are threatened by conversion to nonforest

uses. Through the use of conservation easements and fee-simple acquisitions, 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. The FLP is implemented by State lead agencies

through partnerships with local governments, land trusts, and willing landowners. The

program operates on the principle of “willing buyer, willing seller.”

The FLP provides an incentive-based mechanism to maintain working forests, protect

important fish and wildlife habitat, conserve watershed functions, and maintain recreational opportunities. The program emphasizes protection of significant forests that can

be effectively protected and managed.

States and territories develop an Assessment of Need (AON) to participate in the FLP.

The AON is an implementation plan that evaluates forest characteristics, uses, and

threats; describes specific forest areas where the FLP will be focused; and outlines program goals and eligibility criteria that guide the selection of forest tracts. 

Thirty-nine States and territories are active in the program: Alabama, Alaska, American

Samoa, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois,

Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,

Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North

Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee,

U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Eight other States (Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, and

Texas) are actively developing AONs. 

Since its first appropriations in FY 1992, the FLP has conserved over 1 million acres

across 29 States and territories. The FLP has provided excellent leverage of the forest

conservation Federal investment by protecting more than $361 million of land value

with a Federal investment of more than $183 million.

The FLP has 

provided excellent

leverage of the 

forest conservation

Federal investment 

by protecting more

than $361 million of

land value with a

Federal investment

of more than $183

million.

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Budget History

* In FY 1995, $7.8 million of unspent funds—including all of the FY 1995 funds and $1.112 million of prior-year

funds—were recinded. Amounts are the original appropriations before the recission.

** Total includes redistribution of $6.914 million from prior year funds.

Fiscal FY 1992 FY 1993 FY 1994 FY 1995* FY 1996 FY 1997 FY 1998 Year

$ (in 4,938 9,915 6,948 6,688 3,000 2,000 4,000 1,000s)

Fiscal FY 1999 FY 2000 FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004**

Year

$ (in 7,012 29,933 59,868 65,000 68,380 71,046 1,000s)
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Summary of Forest Legacy Program Accomplishments 

(as of September 30, 2004)

State Assessment of Need Total Total Value Forest Legacy

Approval Date Acres Contribution

Alabama March 22, 2002 656 $666,667 $500,000

Alaska November 1, 2002 239 $241,000 $174,000

American Samoa January 23, 2004

California January 22, 1996

Amended: January 16, 2001 4,973 $9,252,000 $1,095,731

Colorado March 22, 2002 220 $1,496,000 $515,000

Connecticut October 26, 1994 6,789 $7,723,554 $4,479,378

Delaware December 10, 1998 908 $4,800,000 $1,994,000

Georgia March 22, 2002 350 626,000 500,000

Hawaii November 29, 1994 4,000 $3,310,000 $2,745,000

Idaho November 1, 2002 25,860 $5,266,576 $3,954,000

Illinois November 29, 1994 367 $1,512,898 $1,079,174

Indiana December 10, 1998 3,737 $4,902,500 $3,764,300

Iowa March 7, 2002

Kentucky December 3, 2003

Maine March 18, 1994 403,795 $57,683,205 $32,763,145

Maryland January 22, 1996 1,061 $2,403,000 $728,000

Massachusetts August 5, 1993

Amended: January 16, 2001 2,999 $12,268,332 $5,214,850

Michigan February 20, 2004

Minnesota February 2, 2000 1,171 $3,436,800 $2,179,950

Montana February 29, 2000 150,455 $37,691,970 $16,855,533

Nebraska March 30, 2004

New Hampshire February 11, 1994

Amended: February 29, 2000 194,059 $29,101,072 $19,182,072

New Jersey October 26, 1994 2,597 $14,003,000 $2,262,000

New Mexico March 2, 2002

New York October 26, 1994

Amended: December 10, 1998 1,555 $4,773,400 $2,403,400

North Carolina February 29, 2000 3,431 $10,376,575 $5,594,060

Oregon March 22, 2002

Pennsylvania May 7, 2002

Puerto Rico October 30, 1997 1,429 $1,576,875 $791,700

Rhode Island December 30, 1993 1,458 $3,732,000 $2,344,000

South Carolina February 7, 2000 24,357 $28,800,949 $16,994,167

Tennessee February 7, 2000 13,097 $18,524,000 $9,104,250

U.S. Virgin Islands June, 20, 2003

Utah February 27, 1997 47,967 $42,102,586 $14,716,911

Vermont February 11, 1994 52,044 $10,128,000 $6,757,000

Virginia January 16, 2001 2,591 $3,705,000 $2,571,000

Washington October 26, 1994 13,555 $27,850,895 $17,007,429

West Virginia December 2, 2003

Wisconsin January 16, 2001 35,337 $13,251,375 $5,000,000

TOTAL 1,001,057 $361,206,229 $183,270,050
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Map of Completed Projects (as of September 30, 2004)
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Fiscal Year 2005 Proposed Forest Legacy Program Project List

President’s Fiscal Year 2005 Budget Request for Forest Legacy Program Projects 

(Order reflects rank in priority)

State Project Name Forest Legacy

Program Funding ($)

Tennessee Walls of Jericho 5,900,000

Alabama Mobile Tensaw Delta 1,500,000

Montana Blackfoot—Clearwater 3,300,000

New Jersey Raritan River Watershed (Dickerson Tract) 4,500,000

Montana North Swan River Valley 3,000,000

Washington Cedar Green Forest 2,000,000

Wisconsin Wolf River 4,500,000

West Virginia Potomac River Hills 1,000,000

Alabama Cumberland Mountain 1,400,000

Delaware Green Horizons 1,000,000

Virginia Dragon Run II 800,000

Indiana Shawnee Hills 1,900,000

Pennsylvania Birdsboro Waters 2,200,000

U.S. Virgin Islands Annaly Bay/Hermitage Valley 1,000,000

South Carolina Catawba-Wateree Forest 3,000,000

Maine Katahdin Forest 5,000,000

New Mexico Horse Springs Ranch 2,500,000

Wisconsin Tomahawk—Northwoods III 4,000,000

Colorado Banded Peaks 3,100,000

Maine Sebago Lands 500,000

Massachusetts Stock Mountain North 375,000

Puerto Rico La Jungla 2,000,000

Washington Carbon River Forest, Phase I 1,600,000

Kentucky Knobs State Forest (Kuhn’s Tract) 2,400,000

California Six Rivers to the Sea (Price Creek and Sunny Brea tracts) 2,800,000

Iowa NE Upper Bluffs 550,000

Utah Pioneer Ranch 750,000

Georgia Plum Creek at Broxton Rocks 1,500,000

New York Tahawus 2,500,000

Vermont Mt. Holly Wildlife Corridor II 1,500,000

Alaska Agulowak River 1,000,000

California California Klamath—Cascade (Denny Mountain Ranch) 900,000

Illinois Daggett Ridge 1,000,000

Minnesota Brainerd Lakes 2,800,000

Idaho St. Joe Basin, Phase III 3,500,000

Massachusetts Muschopauge Brook 400,000

Michigan Turtle Lake 1,000,000

Utah Cedar Project (Iron County Tract) 2,300,000

Virginia The Cove 440,000

Connecticut Nightingale Pond 1,500,000

Tennessee Scott’s Gulf 1,500,000

California Ridgewood Ranch 500,000

Rhode Island Hoxie Farm 850,000

New Hampshire Thirteen Mile Woods II 2,000,000

Vermont Orange County Headwaters (Meadowsend) 450,000

New Hampshire Trout Pond 1,200,000

Maryland Broad Creek 1,500,000

North Carolina Laurel Fork Watershed 1,000,000

Arizona New State Startup 500,000

Florida New State Startup 500,000

Missouri New State Startup 500,000

Nebraska New State Startup 500,000

Ohio New State Startup 500,000

Texas New State Startup 500,000

Administration, Acquisition Management, and Assessment of Need Planning 5,104,000

TOTAL $100,019,000
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Participating Forest Legacy Program States

About the tables: 

• The overall goals reflect the States’ priorities for the Forest Legacy Program (FLP)

implementation. 

• “CE” refers to conservation easement.

• “FE” refers to fee simple acquisition.

• “AON” refers to assessment of need.

• Project closure dates are as of September 30, 2004. 

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

accomplishments of the FLP. 

• Projects are ordered by fiscal year of funding.
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Alabama
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For More Information

Dan Dumont

Alabama Forest Resource 

Center

169 Dauphin St., Suite 302

Mobile, AL 36602

251–433–2372 (phone)

alfrc@bellsouth.net

Birgetta Giles

Forest Management Div. 

Director

Alabama Forestry 

Commission

513 Madison Ave.

Montgomery, AL 36130

334–240–9333 (phone)

334–240–9390 (fax)

GilesB@forestry.state.al.us

Elizabeth Crane 

USDA Forest Service

1720 Peachtree Rd., NW.

Suite 846N

Atlanta, GA 30309

404–347–5214 (phone)

404–909–0267 (cell phone)

404–347–2776 (fax)

ecrane@fs.fed.us

Alabama

AON Approval Date: March 22, 2002

Overall Goals

• Protect tracts that fit into a larger conservation effort, including tracts that augment and

complement other conservation initiatives by Federal and State agencies, land trusts,

and other private conservation organizations.

• Protect forest resources that have a Federal nexus, either because they are adjacent to Federal lands or because they provide habitat for migratory birds or other Federal trust species.

• Protect tracts with significant biodiversity because they are more likely to protect Alabama’s natural heritage on the minimum acreage and thus in the most cost-effective way

possible. Also, by focusing on biodiversity hot spots, the likelihood the program will head

off the listing of additional species under the Endangered Species Act will be greater.

• 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 the natural beauty of the land.

• Preserve and protect forest-based recreation opportunities.

• Preserve forest lands for current and future wood production.

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Coon Gulf Jackson FE 656 2002 $666,667 $500,000 Completed 12/1/2003

2. Perdido River Mobile FE 3,812 2003 $2,649,334 $1,981,276 Funded

3. Mobile Tensaw 

Delta Phase I Mobile, Baldwin FE 1,145 2004 $5,152,500 $2,963,412 Funded

Jacintoport

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 1 656 $666,667 $500,000

Total Funded 2 4957 $7,801,834 $4,944,688
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Alaska
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For More Information

Tina Long

Grants Administrator

State of Alaska, Dept. of 

Natural Resources

Division of Parks & 

Outdoor Recreation

550 West 7th Ave.

Suite 1380

Anchorage, AK 99501–3561

907–269–8709 (phone)

907–269–8907 (fax)

tina_long@dnr.state.ak.us

John Henshaw 

USDA Forest Service

State and Private Forestry

1323 Club Dr.

Vallejo, CA 94592

707–562–8974 (phone)

707–562–9054 (fax)

jhenshaw01@fs.fed.us

Alaska

AON Approval Date: November 1, 2002

Overall Goals

• Protect fish and wildlife habitat connectivity, habitat diversity, and related values

needed to ensure biological diversity and healthy fish and wildlife populations.

• Increase opportunities for natural lands recreation, especially near communities and

existing roads, and protect existing opportunities at remote sites.

• Buffer, protect, and enhance the natural ecosystem functions and natural lands recreation value of lands currently under conservation and forest management.

• Prevent forest fragmentation.

• Protect areas important to Alaska’s communities for water supplies, traditional uses,

and economic reasons.

• Protect river systems, wetlands, coastal areas and their associated hydrologic functions

and upland habitats.

• Provide and maintain opportunities for traditional forest uses, including the production

of wood and nontimber forest products.

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Chena River SRA 

In-holding, Fairbanks FE 239 2003 $241,000 $174,000 Completed 12/31/2003

Colorado Creek North Star

2. Gorman Inholdings, Bristol Bay FE 80 2003 $235,000 $123,500 Funded

Wood-Tikchik SP

3. Sorenson Inholdings, Bristol Bay FE 123 2003 $266,000 $199,500 Funded

Wood-Tikchik SP

4. Diamond Creek 

Parcel Kenai Peninsula CE 160 2004 $600,000 $444,000 Funded

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 1 239 $241,000 $174,000

Total Funded 3 363 $1,101,000 $767,000
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American Samoa
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American Samoa

AON Approval Date: January 23, 2004

Overall Goals

• Protect unique or environmentally important areas belonging to private owners

who are being threatened by conversion to nonforest uses and that fit the established program eligibility goals.

• Three priorities for action are as follows:

1. Conserve and restore forest areas as watersheds or for controlling erosion and

subsequent sedimentation of lagoons and other coastal areas.

2. Conserve and protect forest lands in a natural state (as close to “primary forest” as possible), or in one recommended Forest Legacy Area, returning it to

its native state.

3. Conserve the biodiversity of the territory by preserving representative areas.

For More Information

Mike Misa

Forestry Program

Land Grant Station

P.O. Box 5319

ASCC/AHNR

Pago Pago, AS 96799

011–684–699–1394 (phone)

011–684–699–5011 (fax)

mmisa@ascc.as

John Henshaw 

USDA Forest Service

State and Private Forestry

1323 Club Dr.

Vallejo, CA 94592

707–562–8974 (phone)

707–562–9054 (fax)

jhenshaw01@fs.fed.us
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California
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California 

AON Approval Date: January 22, 1996

Amendment Date: January 16, 2001

Overall Goals

• 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 which

play a key role in supporting biodiversity. 

• Protect water quality, fisheries, and water supplies. 

• Maintain and restore natural ecosystem functions. 

For More Information

Jeff Calvert

Dept. of Forestry & Fire 

Protection 

P.O. Box 944246

Sacramento, CA 94244–2460

916–653–8286 (phone) 

916–653–8957 (fax) 

jeff.calvert@fire.ca.gov

John Henshaw 

USDA Forest Service

State and Private Forestry

1323 Club Dr.

Vallejo, CA 94592

707–562–8974 (phone)

707–562–9054 (fax)

jhenshaw01@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Leonard Lake Mendocino CE 1,750 $3,000,000 $0 Completed 12/24/1997

2. Twinning & Oracle Mendocino CE 1,526 2000 $1,850000 $40,000 Completed 12/28/2002 Oak Ranches

3. Addison Forest Mendocino CE 600 2001 $1,902,000 $50,000 Completed 4/25/2001

4. Volcan Mountain San Diego FE 1,097 2001 $2,500,000 $1,005,731 Completed 10/1/2003 Phase I

5. Berkeley Albany 

YMCA (Gualala Sonoma CE 440 2002 $1,500,000 $400,000 Funded 

YMCA Camp)

6. Soquel SDF 

Expansion— Santa Cruz FE 9 2002 $550,000 $400,000 Funded

Noren Brothers

7. Dofflemeyer Ranch Tulare CE 7,713 2004 $5,000,000 $2,469,000 Funded

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 4 4,973 $9,252,000 $1,095,731

Total Funded 3 8,162 $7,050,000 $3,269,000
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Colorado
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Colorado

AON Approval Date: March 22, 2002

Overall Goals

• Reduce forested land fragmentation as a result of development pressures, subdivision,

and increasing housing density.

• Protect water quality and production amounts.

• Protect significant wildlife habitat.

• Protect economically significant timber forest products through positive forest stewardship programs.

• Protect significant riparian communities.

• Maintain continuity of forested lands adjacent to protected lands.

• Protect unique ecological areas.

• Reduce wildfire risk and occurrences, especially in developed areas or ecologically

sensitive areas.

• Protect private property owners’ rights.

• Protect lifestyle for property owners.

For More Information

Joe Duda

Colorado State Forest 

Service

Colorado State University

203 Forestry Bldg.

Fort Collins, CO 80523

970–491–6303 (phone)

970–491–7736 (fax)

jduda@lamar.colostate.edu

Susan Gray

USDA Forest Service

Rocky Mountain Region

P.O. Box 25127

Lakewood, CO 80225

303–275–5239 (phone)

303–275–5075 (fax)

segray@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. The Homestead Jefferson,

Clear Creek CE 220 2002 $1,496,000 $515,000 Completed 5/29/2003

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 1 220 $1,496,000 $515,000

Total Funded 0 0 0 0
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Connecticut
Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Eastern Legacy

Area— Middlesex FE 20 $18,000 $0 Completed 11/9/1999

Meshomasic II

2. Western Legacy 

Area—Naugatuck New Haven FE 27 $85,000 $0 Completed 12/7/1999

3. Western Legacy 

Area—Nepaug Litchfield FE 27 $45,000 $0 Completed 1/26/2000

4. Western Legacy 

Area—Mattatuck Litchfield FE 55 $170,000 $0 Completed 2/1/2000

5. Eastern Legacy 

Area— Hartford FE 158 $315,000 $0 Completed 4/13/2000

Salmon River

6. Western Legacy 

Area—Housatonic Litchfield FE 204 $409,550 $0 Completed 6/29/2000

7. Eastern Legacy 

Area— Tolland FE 102 $233,000 $0 Completed 6/29/2000

Meshomasic 

8. Eastern Legacy 

Area—Shenipsit Tolland FE 311 $597,000 $0 Completed 6/30/2000

9. Eastern Legacy 

Area— Middlesex FE 6 $8,500 $0 Completed 6/30/2000

Meshomasic III

10. Maplewood Farm Litchfield CE 172 1995 $210,000 $210,000 Completed 11/10/1997

11. Pogmore Windham CE 53 1995 $80,000 $80,000 Completed 1/9/1997

12. Pine Brook Middlesex CE 126 1998 $100,000 $100,000 Completed 6/17/1999

13. Great Mountain 

Forest Litchfield CE/FE 5,528 2001 $5,452,504 $4,089,378 Completed 12/23/2003

14. Stone House 

Brook Project #1 Windham CE 96 2003 $143,250 $135,500 Funded

15. Stone House 

Brook Project #2 Windham CE 25 2003 $37,500 $37,500 Funded

16. Stone House 

Brook Project #3 Windham CE 240 2003 $360,000 $360,000 Funded

17. Stone House 

Brook Project #4 Windham CE 70 2003 $100,000 $100,000 Funded

Connecticut 

AON Approval Date: October 26, 1994

Overall Goals

• 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. 

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Connecticut 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 13 6,789 $7,723,554 $4,479,378

Total Funded 10 878 $1,650,550 $1,637,000

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

18. Stone House 

Brook Project #5 Windham CE 75 2003 $150,000 $150,000 Funded

19. Stone House 

Brook Project #6 Windham CE 100 2003 $150,000 $150,000 Funded

20. Stone House 

Brook Project #7 Windham CE 80 2003 $120,000 $120,000 Funded

21. Stone House 

Brook Project #8 Windham CE 20 2003 $40,000 $40,000 Funded

22. Peaceful Hill 

Tree Farm Middlesex CE 40 2004 $200,000 $198,000 Funded

23. Nipmuck #1 Tolland CE 132 2004 $349,800 $346,000 Funded
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 21

Connecticut 

Continued

For More Information

Fred Borman

Dept. of Environmental 

Protection

Division of Forestry

79 Elm St., 6th Floor

Hartford, CT 06106 

860–424–3634 (phone)

860–424–4070 (fax)

Fred.borman@po.state.ct.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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Delaware
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 23

Delaware 

AON Approval Date: December 10, 1998

Overall Goals

• 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. 

For More Information

Austin Short

Dept. of Agriculture

Delaware Forest Service

2320 S. DuPont Hwy.

Dover, DE 19901

302–698–4548 (phone)

302–697–6245 (fax)

Austin.Short@state.de.us

Michael Valenti

Dept. of Agriculture

Delaware Forest Service

2320 S. DuPont Hwy.

Dover, DE 19901

302–698–4550 (phone)

302–697–6245 (fax)

michael.valenti@state.de.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Green Horizons 

Phase I Sussex CE 908 2002–2003 $4,800,000 $1,994,000 Completed 5/7/2004

2. Green Horizons

Phase II Sussex FE/CE 4,700 2004 $12,250,000 $1,975,000 Funded

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 1 908 $4,800,000 $1,994,000

Total Funded 1 4,700 $12,250,000 $1,975,000
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Georgia
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 25

Georgia

AON Approval Date: March 22, 2002

Overall Goal

• Protect environmentally important forest areas that are threatened by conversion to

nonforest uses, and promote working forests and other conservation opportunities.

For More Information

Buford Sanders

Georgia Forestry 

Commission

1055 E. Whitehall Rd.

Athens, GA 30605

706–542–9939 (phone)

678–476–6230 (fax)

bsanders@gfc.state.ga.us

Elizabeth Crane 

USDA Forest Service

1720 Peachtree Rd., NW.

Suite 846N

Atlanta, GA 30309

404–347–5214 (phone)

404–909–0267 (cell phone)

404–347–2776 (fax)

ecrane@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Broxton Rocks Coffee FE 350 2002 $626,000 $500,000 Completed 8/31/2004

2. Pine Mountain: 

FY 2003 Project Harris CE 3,550 2003 $6,400,000 $3,974,000 Funded

3. Sheffield 

Inholding: Pauling FE 40 2003 $160,000 $99,000 Funded

FY 2003 Project

4. Rocky Creek at 

Broxton Rocks Coffee CE 1,900 2004 $2,000,000 $1,481,209 Funded

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 1 350 $626,000 $500,000

Total Funded 3 5,490 $8,560,000 $5,554,209
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Hawaii 
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 27

Hawaii 

AON Approval Date: November 29, 1994

Overall Goals

• 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.

For More Information

Sheri Mann

Division of Forestry and 

Wildlife

1151 Punchbowl St.

Room 325

Honolulu, HI 96803

808–587–4174 (phone)

808–587–0160 (fax)

Sheri.S.Mann@ hawaii.gov

John Henshaw 

USDA Forest Service

State and Private Forestry

1323 Club Dr.

Vallejo, CA 94592

707–562–8974 (phone)

707–562–9054 (fax)

jhenshaw01@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Kapua Parcel Hawaii CE 1,800 2000 $1,060,000 $1,060,000 Completed 8/13/2003

2. Papa Parcel Hawaii CE 2,200 2001 $2,250,000 $1,685,000 Completed 8/27/2004

3. McCandless Hawaii CE 6,800 2004 $2,200,000 $1,600,000 Funded Ranch

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 2 4,000 $3,310,000 $2,745,000

Total Funded 1 6,800 $2,200,000 $1,600,000
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Idaho
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 29

Idaho

AON Approval Date: November 1, 2002

Overall Goals

• Identify important forest lands and reduce forest land conversion that would be inconsistent with traditional uses.

• Maintain forest sustainability and historic uses of forested lands.

• Help maintain the culture and economies of rural communities through maintaining

“working” forest landscapes. 

• Conserve and enhance water quality and water quantities associated with forested

landscapes.

• Maintain riparian and wetland areas.

• Conserve and enhance wildlife habitat and maintain habitat connectivity within

forested landscapes.

For More Information

Kirk David

Idaho Dept. of Lands

3780 Industrial Ave. S.

Coeur d’Alene, ID

83815–8918

208–666–8626 (phone)

kdavid@idl.state.id.us

Dee Sessions

USDA Forest Service

324 25th St.

Ogden, UT 84401

801–625–5189 (phone)

801–625–5716 (fax)

dsessions@fs.fed.us

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 1 25,860 $5,266,576 $3,954,000

Total Funded 1 0 0 0

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. St. Joe Basin/

Mica Creek— Shoshone CE 2,710 2003 $676,940 $497,000 Completed 9/30/2003

Marble Creek Ph I

2. St. Joe Basin/

Mica Creek— Shoshone CE 23,150 2004 $4,609,333 $3,457,000 Completed 9/29/2004

Marble Creek Ph II
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Illinois 
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 31

Illinois 

AON Approval Date: November 29, 1994

Overall Goals

• Reduce forest fragmentation. 

• Restore riparian zones. 

• Provide public recreational opportunities.

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 6 367 $1,512,898 $1,079,174

Total Funded 3 163 $2,342,000 $1,502,000

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Oblate/LaVista 

Woods C2000 Madison CE 23 $92,000 $0 Completed 5/24/2000

2. Oblate/LaVista 

Woods #1 Madison CE 60 1998 $252,000 $252,000 Completed 5/25/2000

3. Oblate/LaVista 

Woods #2 Madison CE 60 1999 $372,000 $240,000 Completed 4/6/2001

4. Oblate/LaVista 

Woods—LaVista Madison CE 52 2000 $330,000 $237,000 Completed 3/9/2004

5. Daysville Forest Ogle CE 93 2001 $364,548 $273,411 Completed 10/8/2002

6. Rattlesnake 

Ridge #1 Jersey CE 79 2001 $102,350 $76,763 Completed 9/15/2004

7. Chautauqua 

Woods Jersey CE 25 2002 $575,000 $223,000 Funded

8. Coon Creek 

Woods Jersey CE 63 2003 $127,000 $94,000 Funded

9. Byron Rock 

River Rt. 2 Ogle CE 75 2004 $1,640,000 $1,185,000 Funded

Forest

For More Information

Connie Waggoner

Dept. of Natural Resources

Division of Forest 

Resources

One Natural Resources Way

Springfield, IL 62702–1271

217–524–5464 (phone)

217–524–4177 (fax)

cwaggoner@dnrmail.state.il.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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Indiana 
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 33

Indiana 

AON Approval Date: December 10, 1998

Overall Goals

• 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. 
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Indiana 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 10 3,737 $4,902,500 $3,764,300

Total Funded 4 6,817 $17,250,000 $4,665,000

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Corning Woods 

at Turkey Creek Ripley CE 142 $125,000 $0 Completed 10/11/2001

2. Hills of Gold Brown CE 460 2000 $830,000 $726,300 Completed 12/5/2003

3. Little Richland 

Creek Monroe CE 299 2000 $110,000 $83,500 Completed 11/6/2001

4. Indian Creek 

Phase 1 Greene CE 820 2000 $470,000 $328,000 Completed 2/15/2002

5. River’s Edge Porter CE 77 2001 $167,000 $167,000 Completed 6/23/2003

6. Rattlesnake Creek La Porte CE 163 2001 $145,000 $122,500 Completed 12/30/2002

7. Jack’s Defeat 

Creek Monroe CE 225 2001 $397,500 $338,000 Completed 3/19/2003

8. Big Spring Farm Washington CE 140 2000–2001 $175,000 $175,000 Completed 9/23/2004

8a. Big Spring Farm

—Cost Share Brown FE 43 $58,000 $0 Completed 8/9/2001

9. Camp Gnaw Bone Brown CE 1,381 2000–2001 $2,425,000 $1,825,000 Completed 6/18/2004

10. Indian Creek 

Phase 2 Lawrence, Greene CE 1,500 2002 $1,500,000 $1,100,000 Funded

11. Shawnee Hills—

Mt. Tea Brown CE 1,266 2003 $2,650,000 $1,590,000 Funded

12. Shawnee Hills—

Hurricane Hills Morgan FE/CE 4,051 2004 $13,100,000 $1,975,000 Funded
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 35

Indiana 

Continued

For More Information

Dan Ernst

Dept. of Natural Resources

Division of Forestry

402 W. Washington St. Room

W296

Indianapolis, IN 46204

317–232–4101 (phone)

317–233–3863 (fax)

dernst@dnr.in.gov

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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Iowa
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 37

Iowa

AON Approval Date: March 7, 2002

Overall Goals

• Protect environmentally important private forests that are threatened by conversion to

nonforest uses, such as conversion to agriculture, gravel pits/mining, and residential

or commercial development.

• Protect Iowa’s publicly owned or permanently protected forested tracts from environmental threats caused by the development of nearby forest areas.

• Prevent and reverse the fragmentation/parcelization of Iowa’s contiguous forests by

reconnecting parcels of land and keeping forests in contiguous parcels.

• Preserve the beauty and public enjoyment of Iowa’s forested landscape.
38 Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004

Iowa

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 0 0 0 0

Total Funded 11 1,939 $2,287,170 $1,407,668

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Bertram Linn CE 121 2002 $272,250 $204,188 Funded

2. Upper Iowa—

Cold Air Slope Winneshiek CE 165 2002 $330,000 $165,000 Funded

3. Stone State 

Park—Bur Oak Woodbury CE 34 2002 $36,720 $24,540 Funded

4. Stone State 

Park— Woodbury CE 30 2002 $32,400 $24,300 Funded

Tumbleweed

5. Stephens State 

Forest Clarke, Lucas CE 60 2002 $43,200 $8,640 Funded

6. Yellow River 

Forest—Village Allamakee CE 780 2003 $702,000 $409,500 Funded

Creek

7. Yellow River 

Forest—Lansing Allamakee CE 35 2003 $37,800 $22,500 Funded

Big Lake

8. Yellow River 

Forest—Harpers Allamakee CE 200 2003 $216,000 $127,500 Funded

Ferry

9. Yellow River 

Forest—Effigy Allamakee CE 192 2003 $230,400 $135,500 Funded

10. Canyons—

Caves Jones, Dubuque CE 140 2004 $168,000 $124,000 Funded

11. Canyons—

Whitewater Jones, Dubuque CE 182 2004 $218,400 $162,000 Funded
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 39

Iowa

Continued

For More Information

John Walkowiak

Dept. of Natural Resources

Bureau of Forestry

Wallace State Office Bldg.

502 East 9th St.

Des Moines, IA 50319

515–242–5966 (phone)

515–281–6794 (fax)

john.walkowiak@dnr.state.

ia.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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Kentucky
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 41

Kentucky

AON Approval Date: December 3, 2003

Overall Goals

• Protect environmentally important forest areas that are threatened by conversion to

nonforest uses. 

• Promote working forests and other conservation opportunities.

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 0 0 0 0

Total Funded 1 1,000 $622,000 $494,068

For More Information

Ben Ueltschi

Division of Forest 

Resources

627 Comanche Trail

Frankfort, KY 40601

502–564–4496 (phone)

502–564–6553 (fax)

ben.ueltschi@ky.gov

Elizabeth Crane 

USDA Forest Service

1720 Peachtree Rd., NW.

Suite 846N

Atlanta, GA 30309

404–347–5214 (phone)

404–909–0267 (cell phone)

404–347–2776 (fax)

ecrane@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Legacy State 

Forest—Green Taylor, Adair FE 1,000 2004 $622,000 $494,068 Funded 

River Phase I
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Maine
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 43

Maine 

AON Approval Date: March 18, 1994

Overall Goals

• Maintain traditional forest uses. 

• Protect water quality. 

• Prevent development along pristine lakes, ponds, and streams. 

• Provide public recreation opportunities. 

• Maintain productive forests. 
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Maine 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 14 403,940 $57,683,205 $32,763,145

Total Funded 0 0 0 0

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Mount Blue/

Tumbledown Franklin FE/CE 2,468 $980,000 $0 Completed 12/19/2001

Phase 1A

2. Cupsuptic Lake Oxford CE 1,272 1992 $843,000 $843,000 Completed 12/29/1993

3. Pierce Pond—

Maine Wilderness Somerset CE 1,770 1995 $210,000 $210,000 Completed 4/24/1996

4. Pierce Pond—

SD Warren Somerset CE 6,773 1997 $1,490,000 $1,490,000 Completed 8/15/1996

5. Pierce Pond—

Valentine Somerset CE 1,315 1997 $250,000 $250,000 Completed 3/26/1998

6. Nicatous Hancock CE 20,268 1999 $4,500,000 $3,000,000 Completed 4/11/2000

7. Mattawamkeag—

Bible Point Aroostook FE/CE 3,338 2000 $894,700 $500,000 Completed 4/30/2003

8. Mount Blue/

Tumbledown Franklin CE 4,198 2001 $481,000 $481,000 Completed 5/16/2003

Phase 1B

9. Mount Blue/

Tumbledown Franklin FE 797 2001 $279,000 $148,000 Completed 3/8/2002

Phase 2A

10. Mount Blue/

Tumbledown— 

Tumbledown Franklin FE/CE 11,611 2001–2002 $3,300,000 $2,141,000 Completed 12/9/2002

Mountain Ph 1

11. Leavitt Plantation 

Forest York CE 8,603 2003 $2,735,000 $596,000 Completed 4/29/2003

12. West Branch Somerset FE/CE 328,364 2000–2003 $36,167,465 $19,647,145 Completed 12/22/2003

13. Machias River Washington FE 6,316 2004 $2,903,000 $1,987,000 Completed 12/23/2003

14. Mount Blue/

Tumbledown Franklin FE/CE 6,702 2004 $2,650,000 $1,470,000 Completed 8/31/2004

Phase III
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 45

Maine 

Continued

For More Information

Ralph Knoll

Dept. of Conservation

Bureau of Parks and Lands

State House Station 22

Augusta, ME 04333

207–287–4911 (phone)

207–287–8111 (fax)

Ralph.knoll@maine.gov

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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Maryland
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 47

Maryland 

AON Approval Date: January 22, 1996

Overall Goals

• 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. 

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 5 1,061 $2,403,000 $728,000

Total Funded 6 1,271 $2,900,000 $2,386,000

For More Information

Patrick Meckley

Dept. of Natural Resources, 

Forest Service

580 Taylor Ave.

Annapolis, MD 21401

410–260–8504 (phone)

410–260–8595 (fax)

pmeckley@dnr.state.md.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Elk Neck—

Camp Rodney Cecil CE 491 $491,000 $0 Completed 6/24/1999

2. Elk Neck—

Caveat Cecil CE 24 $39,000 $0 Completed 6/24/1999

3. Elk Neck—

McDaniel Cecil CE 153 $245,000 $0 Completed 6/24/1999

4. Muddy Creek Cecil CE 200 2000 $400,000 $400,000 Funded

5. Muddy Creek II Cecil CE 95 2000 $250,000 $250,000 Funded

6. Green Cathedral Anne Arundel CE 298 2000 $1,550,000 $650,000 Completed 9/25/2001

7. Coastal Bay Worcester CE 95 2001 $78,000 $78,000 Completed 10/6/2003

8. Nanjemoy Charles CE 228 2002 $450,000 $450,000 Funded

9. Deer Creek Harford CE 73 2003 $150,000 $149,000 Funded

10. Pintail Queen Anne’s CE 75 2003 $150,000 $149,000 Funded

11. Broad Creek—

Phase I Harford CE 600 2004 $1,500,000 $988,000 Funded
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Massachusetts 
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 49

Massachusetts 

AON Approval Date: August 5, 1993

Amendment Date: January 16, 2001

Overall Goals

• Protect high-elevation forests and municipal watershed. 

• Protect threatened and endangered species habitats. 

• Protect aquifers, river corridors, and wetlands. 

• Encourage traditional forest uses. 
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No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 17 2,999 $12,268,332 $5,214,850

Total Funded 7 2,294 $9,098,150 $4,128,000

Massachusetts 

Continued

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Alford Springs—

Williamstown Berkshire CE 205 $210,000 $0 Completed 4/2/2002

2. Alford Springs—

Richmond Berkshire CE 110 $110,000 $0 Completed 4/2/2002

3. Holich Hampshire CE 113 1995 $220,000 $220,000 Completed 7/31/1995

4. Audubon Berkshire CE 75 1995 $180,000 $180,000 Completed 6/5/1995

5. Hutchinson Worcester CE 490 1995 $616,000 $450,000 Completed 7/12/1996

6. Anciporch Hampshire CE 106 1995 $198,000 $165,000 Completed 12/4/1995

7. Pippin Tree Middlesex CE 73 1995 $7,000,000 $1,500,000 Completed 5/30/1996

8. Boudreau Hampshire CE 56 1996 $321,000 $240,750 Completed 4/25/1997

9. Kripalu Berkshire CE 225 1996 $280,000 $280,000 Completed 12/31/1997

10. Williams Berkshire CE 14 1997 $38,000 $35,000 Completed 9/8/2003

11. Johnson Hampshire CE 47 1997 $59,000 $47,500 Completed 1/20/1998

12. Stockbridge Berkshire CE 67 1998 $60,400 $60,000 Completed 9/13/1999

13. 2-Mile 

Landbridge Worcester CE 467 1999 $600,000 $330,000 Completed 3/8/2003

14. Hatfield 

Watershed #1 Hampshire CE 12 2000 $90,932 $69,600 Completed 7/28/2003

15. Pumpkin Brook 

Link Middlesex CE 174 2000 $750,000 $250,000 Completed 9/20/2001

16. Hatfield 

Watershed #2 Hampshire CE 133 2001 $590,000 $442,000 Completed 7/12/2002

17. Alford Springs Berkshire CE 632 2001 $945,000 $945,000 Completed 7/25/2002

18. Ballard Hill Worcester FE 33 2002 $115,000 $57,000 Funded

19. Brickhouse 

Mountain Berkshire CE 250 2002 $400,000 $334,000 Funded

20. Mt. Washington 

High Rock Berkshire CE 800 2002–2003 $1,500,000 $997,000 Funded

21. Eagleville Pines Worcester CE 300 2003 $1,263,150 $830,000 Funded

22. Karner Brook 

Ridge Berkshire CE 231 2003 $975,000 $303,000 Funded

23. Bush Hill Worcester CE 445 2004 $845,000 $224,000 Funded

24. Belmont Springs Middlesex CE 235 2004 $4,000,000 $1,383,000 Funded
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For More Information

Michael Fleming

Dept. of Environmental 

Management

Bureau of Forestry

180 Beaman St.

West Boylston, MA 01583

508–792–7423, ext. 502 

(phone)

508–835–6018 (fax)

mike.fleming@state.ma.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us

Massachusetts 

Continued
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Michigan
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 53

Michigan

AON Approval Date: July 20, 2004

Overall Goals

• Ensure the continuity of economic, ecologic, aesthetic, and cultural benefits derived

from the forests of Michigan by enabling the persistence of sustainable, traditional

uses of environmentally important, threatened forests on private lands. 

• The following objectives were identified:

- Identify and protect environmentally important, privately owned forests threatened

by conversion to uses inconsistent with traditional forest uses.

- Reduce forest fragmentation caused by parcelization/subdivision and development.

- Provide environmental benefits through the protection of riparian areas, native forest plants and animals, and natural ecosystem functions.

- Maintain scenic resources.

- Enhance recreational opportunities.

- Promote forest stewardship.

- Provide undeveloped buffer areas to already protected areas.

- Complement other State and Federal interests or assistance programs.

- Protect rare, threatened, and endangered species.

- Enhance habitat connectivity.

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 0 0 0 0

Total Funded 2 300 $1,200,000 $494,000

For More Information

Steve DeBrabander

Dept. of Natural Resources

Forest, Mineral, & Fire 

Management Division

P.O. Box 30452

Lansing, MI 48909

517–241–3687 (phone)

517–373–2443 (fax)

debrabas@michigan.gov

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Grass Lake Newaygo CE 150 2004 $600,000 $198,000 Funded

2. Sleeping Bear 

Dunes— Leelanau CE 150 2004 $600,000 $296,000 Funded

Warburton
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Minnesota 
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 55

Minnesota 

AON Approval Date: February 2, 2000

Overall Goals

• 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 ownership.

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 1, Rice CE 148 2000 $387,400 $330,000 Completed 12/24/2002

7-Mile Woods #1

2. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 1, Rice CE 80 2000 $210,100 $5,000 Completed 12/27/2002

7-Mile Woods #2

3. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 1, Rice CE 45 2000 $105,900 $95,000 Completed 12/20/2002

7-Mile Woods #3

4. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 1, Rice CE 20 2000 $10,000 $10,000 Completed 12/27/2002

7-Mile Woods #4

5. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 1, Rice FE 128 2000 $409,100 $0 Completed 12/21/1999

Heritage Forest

6. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 1, Rice CE 111 2000 $254,000 $238,000 Completed 3/19/2001

Nerstrand Woods #1

7. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 2, 

Cannon River Rice CE 88 2001 $447,500 $359,000 Completed 12/20/2002 

Woods #1

8. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 2, 

Cannon River Rice CE 56 2001 $124,000 $75,000 Completed 10/7/2003

Wilderness #1

9. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 2, Rice CE 79 2001 $153,400 $100,000 Completed 10/9/2003

Nerstrand Woods #3
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Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

10. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 3, Rice CE 77 2002 $267,200 $248,000 Completed 6/26/2004

Nerstrand Woods #4

11. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 3, Rice CE 65 2002 $194,300 $146,500 Completed 7/29/2004

Nerstrand Woods #5

12. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 3, Rice CE 75 2002 $202,600 $100,000 Completed 6/11/2004

Nerstrand Woods #6

13. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 3, Rice CE 57 2002 $180,000 $169,200 Completed 6/25/2004

Nerstrand Woods #7

14. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 3, Cannon Rice CE 28 2002 $59,600 $59,600 Completed 6/11/2004 

River Wilderness #2

15. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 3, Rice CE 60 2002 $276,600 $207,450 Completed 9/27/2004

Cannon River Woods #3

16. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 3, Rice CE 19 2002 $37,700 $37,700 Completed 4/28/2004 

7-Mile Woods #8

17. Rice County Big 

Woods Phase 3, Rice CE 35 2002 $17,400 0 Completed 6/11/2004

7-Mile Woods #9

18. North Duluth 

Phase 1—Moose St. Louis CE 300 2003 $600,000 $397,000 Funded 

Mountain

19. North Duluth Phase 1

—Stanley Creek St. Louis CE 480 2003 $480,000 $10,000 Funded

20. North Duluth 

Phase 2—Lester River St. Louis CE 710 2004 $1,000,000 $494,000 Funded

Minnesota 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 17 1,171 $3,436,800 $2,179,950

Total Funded 3 1,490 $2,080,000 $901,000
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Minnesota 

Continued

For More Information

Dick Peterson

Dept. of Natural Resources

Division of Forestry

1810 NW 30th St.

Faribault, MN 55021

507–333–2012 (phone)

507–333–2008 (fax)

richard.peterson@dnr.state.

mn.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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Montana 
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Montana 

AON Approval Date: February 29, 2000

Overall Goals

• 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.
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Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Thompson/ Lincoln, Sanders,

Fisher, Phase I Flathead CE 13,380 2000 $2,293,218 $999,900 Completed 12/20/2000

2. Manley Ranch 

Phase I Powell, Granite CE 7,900 2001 $1,532,000 $137,000 Completed 1/15/2001

3. Thompson/Fisher, Lincoln, Sanders,

Phase II Flathead CE 52,935 2001 $11,999,156 $3,794,633 Completed 5/30/2001

4. Schiemann Powell FE 302 2003 $908,000 $533,000 Completed 2/26/2004

5. Thompson/ Lincoln, Sanders,

Fisher, Phase III Flathead CE 31,671 2003 $7,891,672 $7,000,000 Completed 9/30/2002

6. Thompson/ Lincoln, Sanders, 

Fisher, Phase IV Flathead CE 21,890 2003 $6,505,848 $3,974,000 Completed 9/25/2003

7. Thompson/ Lincoln, Sanders, 

Fisher, Phase V Flathead CE 22,139 2003 $5,770,076 $0 Completed 12/13/2002

8. North Swan River 

Valley, State 

Forest Initiative Lake CE 7,770 2004 $5,926,000 $2,963,000 Funded 

Phase I

9. Dutton Hereford 

Ranch Powell CE 6,258 2004 $1,500,000 $436,000 Funded

10. Schiemann 

Phase II Ravalli CE 238 2004 $792,000 $417,000 Completed 2/26/2004

Montana 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 8 150,455 $37,691,970 $16,855,533

Total Funded 2 14,028 $7,426,000 $3,399,000
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Montana 

Continued

For More Information

Steve Knapp

Dept. of Fish, Wildlife & 

Parks

P.O. Box 200701

Helena, MT 59620

406–444–2612 (phone)

406–444–4952 (fax)

sknapp@state.mt.us

Dee Sessions

USDA Forest Service

324 25th St.

Ogden, UT 84401

801–625–5189 (phone)

801–625–5716 (fax)

dsessions@fs.fed.us
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Nebraska
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Nebraska

AON Approval Date: March 30, 2004

Overall Goals

• Protect forested parcels in danger of conversion/fragmentation, commercial and residential development, or being cleared for agriculture.

• Protect significant wildlife habitat.

• Protect lakes, rivers, streams, and other significant riparian areas.

• Protect unique ecological areas.

• Protect flora/fauna species diversity.

• Protect water resources.

• Protect existing and expansion of forest-based hunting and fishing opportunities.

For More Information

Dennis Adams

Nebraska Forest Service

University of Nebraska East 

Campus

Rm. 101 Plant Industry 

Bldg.

Lincoln, NE 68583

402–472–2944 (phone)

402–472–2964 (fax)

Susan Gray

USDA Forest Service

Rocky Mountain Region

P.O. Box 25127

Lakewood, CO 80225

303–275–5239 (phone)

303–275–5075 (fax)

segray@fs.fed.us
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New Hampshire 
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New Hampshire 

AON Approval Date: February 11, 1994 

Amendment Date: February 29, 2000

Overall Goals

• Expand existing protected forests. 

• Protect large blocks of forest land. 

• Provide for traditional forest uses. 

• Protect critical wildlife habitats. 

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Northern Forest 

Area—James River Coos FE/CE 3,005 $2,000,000 $0 Completed 7/29/1992

2. Northern Forest Area

—Oxford Paper Co. Coos FE 602 $1,000,000 $0 Completed 12/21/1992

3. Northern Forest Area

—Hurlburt Swamp Coos CE 313 $30,000 $0 Completed 6/17/1993

4. Northern Forest Area

—Pingree Coos FE 16 $75,000 $0 Completed 6/21/1993

5. Northern Forest Area

—Sullivan Coos FE 122 $30,000 $0 Completed 6/21/1993

6. Northern Forest Area

—Union Water Coos FE 24 $167,300 $0 Completed 6/21/1993

Power Co.

7. Smarts Mountain

—Lyme Timber (a) Grafton FE 890 1995 $300,000 $298,000 Completed 6/11/1997

8. Smarts Mountain

—Lyme Timber Grafton CE 2,230 1995 $250,000 $248,000 Completed 6/11/1997

9. Smarts Mountain

—Lyme Timber (b) Grafton FE 65 1995 $80,000 $79,000 Completed 6/11/1997

10. 13-Mile Woods Coos CE 2,754 1995 $555,000 $555,000 Completed 8/4/1997

11. Jahoda Coos CE 344 1995 $105,000 $105,000 Completed 4/26/1996

12. Jahoda/Johnson Coos CE 56 1995 $52,000 $52,000 Completed 4/26/1996

13. Smarts Mountain—

Roy T. Van Vleck Grafton CE 80 1996 $17,000 $17,000 Completed 7/21/1997

14. Smarts Mountain—

Reservoir Pond Grafton FE 90 1996 $25,700 $25,000 Completed 6/11/1997

15. Smarts Mountain—

Dartmouth College Grafton FE 556 1996 $205,750 $205,750 Completed 12/29/1998

16. Piermont Mountain Grafton CE 1,650 1997 $219,450 $219,450 Completed 5/30/1997

17. Bunnell Mountain Coos CE 18,430 2000 $2,050,000 $1,675,000 Completed 12/21/2001

18. Pond of Safety Coos CE 10,198 2000–2001 $3,843,872 $2,108,872 Completed 12/7/2001
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Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

19. Ossipee Mountain 

Tract Carroll CE 5,372 2001 $1,685,000 $1,400,000 Completed 3/27/2002

20. Kimball Pond Merrimack CE 972 2002 $1,085,000 $700,000 Completed 7/18/2002

21. Connecticut Lakes 

Headwaters Coos CE 146,290 2002–2003 $15,325,000 $11,494,000 Completed 10/10/2003

Carroll, 

22. Moose Mountain Strafford, CE 2,081 2004 $450,000 $407,000 Funded

Belknap

23. Moose Mountain— Carroll,

Beaver Creek Strafford, CE 2,086 2004 $700,000 $581,000 Funded

Belknap

24. Pillsbury—Sunapee Grafton,

Highlands Sullivan, FE/CE 6,962 2004 $2,530,825 $2,499,000 Funded 

Merrimack

New Hampshire 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 21 194,059 $29,101,072 $19,182,072

Total Funded 3 11,129 $3,680,825 $3,487,000
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New Hampshire 

Continued

For More Information

Susan Francher

Dept. of Res. & Economic 

Development

Division of Forests and Lands

172 Pembroke Rd.

P.O. Box 1856

Concord, NH 03302

603–271–2214 (phone)

603–271–6488 (fax)

sfrancher@dred.state.nh.us

Bill Carpenter

Dept. of Res. & Economic 

Development

Division of Forests and Lands

172 Pembroke Rd.

P.O. Box 1856

Concord, NH 03302

603–271–3456 (phone)

603–271–6488 (fax)

bcarpenter@dred.state.nh.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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New Jersey 
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New Jersey 

AON Approval Date: October 26, 1994

Overall Goals

• 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. 

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 5 2,597 $14,003,000 $2,262,000

Total Funded 5 8,618 $31,500,000 $13,842,000

For More Information

Pam Thier

Dept. of Environmental 

Protection

Green Acres Program

501 E. State St.

P.O. Box 412

Trenton, NJ 08625

609–984–0596 (phone)

609–984–0608 (fax)

pthier@dep.state.nj.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. FDIC (RTC) Morris FE 145 1996 $412,000 $412,000 Completed 12/19/1997

2. Buck Mountain Morris FE 1,200 1997 $4,300,000 $200,000 Completed 1/9/1997

3. Meriden Morris FE 295 2000 $7,000,000 $350,000 Completed 6/22/2000

4. Macopin Reservoir Passaic FE 700 2000 $1,432,000 $700,000 Completed 12/27/2000

5. Farny Highlands Morris FE 525 2001 $3,000,000 $1,021,000 Funded

6. Highlands Greenway Sussex FE 257 2001 $859,000 $600,000 Completed 12/31/2002

7. Newark Watershed Morris, 

Phase 5 Passaic, CE 5,000 2002 $10,000,000 $5,000,000 Funded

Sussex

8. Lake Gerard Sussex FE 1,893 2003 $8,000,000 $2,981,000 Funded

9. Upper Delaware River

Watershed— Morris, FE 600 2004 $4,500,000 $2,000,000 Funded

Buckhorn Creek Warren

10. Upper Delaware River

Watershed—Crown Morris, FE 600 2004 $6,000,000 $2,840,000 Funded

Towers

Warren
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New Mexico
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New Mexico

AON Approval Date: March 2, 2002

Overall Goals

• Identify and protect environmentally important, privately owned forest lands threatened with conversion to uses that are inconsistent with traditional forest uses, including, but not limited to, residential subdivisions, commercial development, treeless

pasture, cultivated farmland, and mining that causes extensive surface disturbance.

• Reduce forest fragmentation caused by subdivision and development.

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

plants and animals, remnant forest types, and natural ecosystem functions.

• Promote forest stewardship.

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

• Enhance recreational opportunities.

• Protect important historical and cultural sites.

• Provide undeveloped buffer areas to already protected areas.

For More Information

Bob Sivinski

Forestry Division

P.O. Box 1948

Santa Fe, NM 87504–1948

505–476–3347 (phone)

505–842–3165 (fax)

bsivinski@state.nm.us

George Martinez

USDA Forest Service

Federal Bldg.

333 Broadway SE.

Albuquerque, NM 87102

505–842–3344 (phone)

505–842–3806 (fax)

gcmartinez@fs.fed.us
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New York
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New York

AON Approval Date: October 26, 1994

Amendment Date: December 10, 1998

Overall Goals

• Protect traditional forest uses. 

• Provide public recreation opportunities. 

• Protect water quality. 

• Protect scenic quality. 

• Provide wildlife habitat. 

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 6 1,555 $4,773,400 $2,403,400

Total Funded 4 74,915 $19,080,000 $6,496,000

For More Information

S. McCrea Burnham

Dept. of Environmental 

Conservation

Division of Lands and 

Forests

625 Broadway

Albany, NY 12233–4250

518–402–9405 (phone)

518–402–9028 (fax)

smburnha@gw.dec.state.ny.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Indian Lake Hamilton CE 141 1994 $86,000 $86,000 Completed 8/24/1994

2. Brown Oneida CE 119 1995 $120,000 $120,000 Completed 4/21/1997

3. Fox Rennselaer FE 100 1997 $100,000 $50,000 Completed 12/29/1997

4. Pownal Tanning Rennselaer FE 278 1997 $131,000 $81,000 Completed 12/29/1997

5. Greene Frog Greene FE 70 1999 $66,400 $66,400 Completed 8/17/2000

6. Sterling Forest Orange FE 847 2000 $4,270,000 $2,000,000 Completed 12/11/2000

7. George Allen Rennselaer FE/CE 600 2001 $350,000 $350,000 Funded

8. Adirondack Lakes 

Project Hamilton FE/CE 26,500 2001–2002 $12,000,000 $2,500,000 Funded

9. East Branch Fish 

Creek Lewis FE/CE 47,300 2001, 2003 $5,000,000 $2,362,000 Funded

10. Pochuck Mountain Orange FE 515 2004 $1,730,000 $1,284,000 Funded
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North Carolina 
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North Carolina 

AON Approval Date: February 29, 2000

Overall Goals

• 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. 

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 3 3,431 $10,376,575 $5,594,060

Total Funded 2 2,631 $5,750,000 $2,951,209

For More Information

Dr. Mark Megalos

Division of Forest 

Resources

1616 Mail Svc. Cntr.

Raleigh, NC 27699

919–733–2162, ext. 254 (phone)

919–715–5773 (fax)

Mark.Megalos@ncmail.net

Elizabeth Crane 

USDA Forest Service

1720 Peachtree Rd., NW.

Suite 846N

Atlanta, GA 30309

404–347–5214 (phone)

404–909–0267 (cell phone)

404–347–2776 (fax)

ecrane@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Town Creek Buffer—

Duckhead & Boise Brunswick CE 1,508 2000 $3,367,575 $2,694,060 Completed 11/20/2001

2. Town Creek Buffer—

Davis Farm Brunswick CE 1,082 2000 $2,298,000 $1,410,000 Completed 12/14/2000

3. Blue Ridge Parkway 

Buffer Jackson FE/CE 921 2002 $2,850,000 $1,470,000 Funded

4. RPM Limited 

Partnership Tract Carteret FE 841 2003 $4,711,000 $1,490,000 Completed 6/26/2003

5. Cool Springs Tract Craven CE 1,710 2004 $2,900,000 $1,481,209 Funded
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Oregon
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Oregon

AON Approval Date: March 22, 2002

Overall Goals

• Conserve private forest lands in areas where forests may be lost to nonforest uses.

• Sustain forest resources such as river flows and clean water, fish and wildlife habitat,

carbon stores, soil productivity, commercial and noncommercial timber, scenic 

quality, recreational opportunity, and biodiversity.

• Strengthen communities and facilitate State, local, and private partnerships in forest

conservation.

For More Information

Gregg Cline

Oregon Forest Legacy 

Program

Oregon Dept. of Forestry

2600 State St.

Salem, OR 97310

503–945–7482 (phone)

503–945–7212 (fax)

gcline@odf.state.or.us

John Henshaw 

USDA Forest Service

State and Private Forestry

1323 Club Dr.

Vallejo, CA 94592

707–562–8974 (phone)

707–562–9054 (fax)

jhenshaw01@fs.fed.us
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Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania

AON Approval Date: May 7, 2002

Overall Goals

• Maintain traditional forest uses, including recreation and timber harvesting, following

Best Management Practices (BMPs).

• Maintain productivity of forests for future generations.

• Reduce the trend toward forest parcelization.

• Conserve significant tracts of contiguous forest.

• Conserve water resources and riparian zones.

• Conserve important habitats for plants, fish, and wildlife.

• Restore degraded forested ecosystems.

For More Information

Gene Odato

Dept. of Conservation & 

Natural Resources

Bureau of Forestry

Rachel Carson State Office 

Bldg.

P.O. Box 8552

Harrisburg, PA 17105

717–787–6460 (phone)

717–783–5109 (fax)

godato@state.pa.us

Rachel Billingham

Dept. of Conservation & 

Natural Resources

Bureau of Forestry

Rachel Carson State Office 

Bldg.

P.O. Box 8552

Harrisburg, PA 17105

717–783–0385 (phone)

717–783–5109 (fax)

rbillingha@state.pa.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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Puerto Rico 

AON Approval Date: October 30, 1997

Overall Goals

• 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.

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 9 1,429 $1,576,875 $791,700

Total Funded 1 6,400 $6,400,000 $1,180,000

For More Information

Edgardo Gonzalez

Dept. of Natural & Envir. 

Resources

P.O. Box 9066600

San Juan, PR 00906–6600

787–724–3647 (phone)

787–721–5984 (fax)

Terry Hueth

USDA Forest Service

Jardin Botanico Sur

1201 Calle Ceiba

San Juan, PR 00926–1119

787–766–5335, ext. 222 

(phone)

787–766–6263 (fax)

thueth@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Busigo Maricao Maricao FE 257 $223,175 $0 Completed 3/15/2000

2. Fraticelli Guilarte Adjuntas FE 41 $21,000 $0 Completed 3/30/2000

3. Gripinas Toro Negro Jayuya FE 498 $256,500 $0 Completed 3/30/2000

4. La Nuez Guilarte Adjuntas FE 71 $36,500 $0 Completed 3/30/2000

5. Mikasobe Carite Guayama FE 47 $115,000 $0 Completed 5/3/2000

6. Mogotes Guilarte Yauco FE 238 $123,000 $0 Completed 3/30/2000

7. Hernandez Guanica SF Guanica FE 61 2000 $145,000 $135,000 Completed 1/19/2001

8. Lopez Guanica SF Guanica FE 135 2000 $348,200 $348,200 Completed 2/1/2001

9. Matos Guanica SF Guanica FE 81 2000 $308,500 $308,500 Completed 2/1/2001

10. Rio Encantato—

Karst Initiative Ciales FE 6,400 2001 $6,400,000 $1,180,000 Funded

Phase I
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Rhode Island 

AON Approval Date: December 30, 1993

Overall Goals

• 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. 
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Rhode Island 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 10 1,458 $3,732,000 $2,344,000

Total Funded 5 768 $2,828,000 $1,549,000

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Rhode Island Cost Share

Tracts—Pratt Farm Washington CE 72 $360,000 $0 Completed 9/30/1999

2. Rhode Island Cost Share 

Tracts—Willoughby Providence CE 200 $575,000 $0 Completed 12/8/2000

3. Screech Hole Bog Providence CE 132 1995 $53,000 $50,000 Completed 5/27/1999

4. Mount Tom Trail Washington CE 145 1997 $270,000 $270,000 Completed 12/28/1999

5. Queen’s River—

Fisherville Brook Washington CE 80 1997 $155,000 $155,000 Completed 2/15/1999

6. Susanna’s Woods Washington FE 75 1998 $445,000 $445,000 Completed 12/1/1998

7. Cork Brook Tract Providence CE 45 2000 $218,000 $218,000 Completed 8/2/2001

8. DuVal Trail Corridor Washington CE 166 2000 $360,000 $360,000 Completed 2/21/2001

9. Canonchet Brook Washington CE 471 2001 $1,000,000 $550,000 Completed 6/10/2003

10. Coventry Greenway Kent CE 72 2001 $296,000 $296,000 Completed 8/25/2003

11. Barber’s Pond Washington CE 73 2002 $1,100,000 $528,000 Funded

12. Weetamoe Woods 

Phase I Newport CE 250 2002 $600,000 $250,000 Funded

13. Weetamoe Woods 

Phase II Newport CE 250 2003 $600,000 $248,000 Funded

14. DuVal Trail Corridor #2 Washington CE 45 2003 $200,000 $199,000 Funded

15. Great Grass Pond Kent CE 150 2004 $328,000 $324,000 Funded
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Rhode Island 

Continued

For More Information

Paul Ricard

Dept. of Environmental 

Management

2185 Putnam Pike 

Chepachet, RI 02814–1705

401–568–2248 (phone)

401–568–2045 (fax)

pricard@dem.state.ri.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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South Carolina 
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South Carolina 

AON Approval Date: February 7, 2000

Overall Goals

• 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. 
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Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Shooting Tree Pickens FE 571 2000 $1,260,000 $975,000 Completed 12/7/2000

2. Coastal Forest I— Colleton,

Beech Hill Charleston, FE 1,369 2001 $2,600,000 $1,592,167 Completed 1/28/2002

Dorchester

3. Coastal Forest I— Colleton,

Edisto WMA Charleston, CE 5,752 2001 $6,700,000 $4,050,000 Completed 1/28/2002

Dorchester

Colleton,

4. Geddis Charleston, FE 25 2001 $64,000 $64,000 Completed 9/15/2004

Dorchester

5. Catawba—Wateree 

Forest Chester FE 1,049 2002 $4,040,854 $2,960,000 Completed 5/6/2002

6. Coastal Forest II— Williamsburg,

Santee “Wee Tee” Georgetown FE 12,349 2002 $8,366,000 $2,850,000 Completed 11/18/2003

7. Coastal Forest III—

Toumey Sumter FE 3,242 2003 $5,770,095 $4,503,000 Completed 9/24/2004

8. Cooper River Corridor

—Bonneau Ferry Berkeley FE 10,697 2004 $47,000,000 $809,565 Funded

9. Cooper River Corridor

—Private Berkeley CE 6,310 2004 $8,500,000 $6,795,300 Funded

South Carolina 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 5 24,357 $28,800,949 $16,994,167

Total Funded 3 17,007 $55,500,000 $7,604,865
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South Carolina 

Continued

For More Information

Emily Cope

Dept. of Natural Resources

P.O. Box 167

Columbia, SC 29202

803–734–3937 (phone)

803–734–9809 (fax)

CopeE@dnr.sc.gov

Elizabeth Crane 

USDA Forest Service

1720 Peachtree Rd., NW.

Suite 846N

Atlanta, GA 30309

404–347–5214 (phone)

404–909–0267 (cell phone)

404–347–2776 (fax)

ecrane@fs.fed.us
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Tennessee 
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 91

Tennessee 

AON Approval Date: February 7, 2000

Overall Goals

• 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. 
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Tennessee 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 5 13,097 $18,524,000 $9,104,250

Total Funded 10 8,047 $6,593,800 $4,963,220

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Clark—Big Bottom White FE 194 2000 $155,000 $40,000 Funded

2. Middlecoff Fayette CE 436 2000 $221,000 $221,000 Funded

3. Patrick Carter CE 30 2000 $66,000 $39,250 Completed 2/2/2004

4. Simonton Lauderdale CE 122 2001 $61,000 $61,000 Funded

5. North Chickamauga—

Patten Hamilton FE 1,141 2001 $860,000 $860,000 Funded

6. North Chickamauga—

Casey Hamilton CE 951 2001 $670,000 $670,000 Funded

7. North Chickamauga 

Phase II—Gwynn Hamilton CE 2,125 2002 $1,000,000 $500,000 Funded

8. Anderson Tully Lauderdale FE 6,327 2002 $10,000,000 $4,500,000 Completed 5/22/2002

9. Cummings Cove Hamilton FE 1,200 2002 $1,440,000 $1,000,000 Completed 12/30/2002

10. TN Small Projects—

McNeill Fayette CE 90 2002 $118,000 $118,000 Completed 1/12/2004

11. McGlauthlin—Hwy 41 Hamilton CE 390 2003 $467,800 $295,000 Funded

12. McGlauthlin—Mullins 

Cove Hamilton FE 378 2003 $666,000 $500,000 Funded

13. Anderson Tully Phase II Anderson FE 5,450 2003 $6,900,000 $3,447,000 Completed 10/12/2003

14. Ray/Geltelfinger Morgan FE 769 2004 $1,375,000 $988,135 Funded

15. Jim Creek Pickett, 

Fentress FE 1,541 2004 $1,118,000 $828,085 Funded
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Tennessee 

Continued

For More Information

David Arnold

Division of Forestry

P.O. Box 40627

Melrose Station

Nashville, TN 37325–0059

615–837–5425 (phone)

615–837–5003 (fax)

david.arnold@state.tn.us

Elizabeth Crane 

USDA Forest Service

1720 Peachtree Rd., NW.

Suite 846N

Atlanta, GA 30309

404–347–5214 (phone)

404–909–0267 (cell phone)

404–347–2776 (fax)

ecrane@fs.fed.us
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U.S. Virgin Islands
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U.S. Virgin Islands

AON Approval Date: June 20, 2003 

Overall Goals

• Identify and protect environmentally important forested lands threatened by conversion to nonforest use.

• Reduce continued fragmentation of forest resources.

• Provide environmental benefits through the protection and restoration of wetland areas.

• Provide watershed and water supply protection.

• Protect marine resources through reductions in nonpoint source pollution from 

denuded land.

• Maintain valuable scenic resources of the Virgin Islands.

• Protect rare and endangered flora and fauna.

For More Information

David Howlett

Dept. of Agriculture

Estate Lower Love

Kingshill, VI 00850

340–778–0091, ext. 256 

(phone)

340–778–7977 (fax)

davhowlett@yahoo.com

Terry Hueth

USDA Forest Service

Jardin Botanico Sur

1201 Calle Ceiba

San Juan, PR 00926–1119

787–766–5335, ext. 222 

(phone)

787–766–6263 (fax)

thueth@fs.fed.us
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Utah
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 97

Utah 

AON Approval Date: February 27, 1997

Overall Goals

• 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. 
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Utah 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 19 47,967 $42,102,586 $14,716,911

Total Funded 0 0 0 0

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Chalk Creek Summit CE 8,890 $8,540,000 $0 Completed 6/3/1999

2. Peaceful Valley Phase II Summit CE 5,510 $4,600,000 $0 Completed 7/5/2000

3. Bar J Ranch Phase I Sevier CE 2,463 $1,550,000 $0 Completed 12/22/2000

4. Castle Rock, Bear 

River Phase I Summit CE 2,785 $1,800,000 $0 Completed 6/14/2001

5. Peaceful Valley Phase I Summit CE 1,790 1998 $1,800,000 $900,000 Completed 6/3/1999

6. Range Creek—Jenson Carbon CE 839 2000 $217,425 $217,425 Completed 10/26/2001

7. Panguitch Garfield CE 935 2000 $1,530,000 $1,500,000 Completed 4/12/2000

8. Bar J Ranch Phase II Sevier CE 1,964 2001 $1,765,000 $1,200,000 Completed 5/16/2001

9. Coalville Phase I— Summit,

Boyden Farms Morgan CE 695 2001 $675,000 $300,000 Completed 7/5/2000

10. Coalville Phase II— Summit, 

Boyden Farms Morgan CE 2,668 2001 $2,335,000 $1,900,000 Completed 3/26/2001

11. Range Creek—Allred Carbon CE 837 2001 $370,000 $370,000 Completed 1/14/2000

12. Summit Park Summit FE/CE 325 2001 $1,600,000 $800,000 Completed 5/7/2001

13. Bar J Ranch Phase III Sevier CE 1,196 2002 $845,000 $710,000 Completed 5/15/2002

14. Castle Rock, Bear 

River Phase II Summit CE 2,325 2002 $2,560,000 $1,000,000 Completed 4/5/2002

15. Wilcox Ranch Carbon, 

Emery FC 2,673 2002 $1,588,046 $13,400 Completed 3/2/2004

16. Castle Rock, Bear 

River Phase III Summit CE 4,870 2003 $4,870,000 $1,977,000 Completed 6/2/2003

17. Chalk Creek South 

Fork Phase I Summit CE 2,394 2003 $2,011,665 $1,508,749 Completed 3/28/2003

18. Cedar Project #1 Kane CE 2,744 2004 $2,040,450 $1,530,337 Completed 4/22/2004

19. Chalk Creek South 

Fork Phase II Summit CE 1,264 2004 $1,065,000 $790,000 Completed 4/13/2004

20. Rainbow Glass Ranch Carbon CE 800 2004 $340,000 $0 Completed 3/25/2004
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Utah 

Continued

For More Information

Ann Price

Division of Forestry, Fire 

and State Lands

1594 West Temple 

Suite 3520

P.O. Box 145703

Salt Lake City, UT 

84114–5703

801–538–5540 (phone)

801–533–4111 (fax)

Nrslf.aprice@state.ut.us

Dee Sessions

USDA Forest Service

324 25th St.

Ogden, UT 84401

801–625–5189 (phone)

801–625–5716 (fax)

dsessions@fs.fed.us
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Vermont 
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Vermont 

AON Approval Date: February 11, 1994

Overall Goals

• 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. 

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Area 1—

Lowell Mountain Orleans CE 1,241 $177,000 $0 Completed 7/16/2001

2. Area 1—

McConnell Pond Essex CE 4,790 $928,000 $0 Completed 7/16/2001

3. Area 1—Stookey Orleans CE 809 $96,000 $0 Completed 7/16/2001

4. Area 1—Macks 

Mountain Caledonia CE 730 $210,000 $0 Completed 7/16/2001

5. Area 2—Pierce Rutland CE 235 $141,000 $0 Completed 7/16/2001

6. Mt. Holly Wildlife 

Corridor Cost Share Rutland FE 273 $340,000 $0 Completed 12/31/2002

7. Atlas Lamoille CE 2,281 1992 $342,000 $342,000 Completed 5/18/1994

8. Cow Mountain Pond Essex FE 1,660 1992 $500,000 $271,000 Completed 4/20/1993

9. Hancock Essex, Orleans CE 31,450 1995 $2,847,000 $2,500,000 Completed 12/20/1996

10. Snow Windsor CE 560 1995 $200,000 $200,000 Completed 9/19/1997

11. Wilderness Corp Windsor CE 2,086 1995 $771,000 $618,000 Completed 10/2/1996

12. Green River Lamoille FE 5,113 1998 $2,526,000 $1,776,000 Completed 3/30/1999

13. Mt. Holly Wildlife 

Corridor 1 Rutland CE 391 2001 $303,000 $303,000 Completed 12/23/2002

14. Mt. Holly Wildlife

Corridor 2 Windsor CE 425 2001 $747,000 $747,000 Completed 8/2/2004

15. VT Northern Forests Essex FE/CE 4,880 2001 $1,470,000 $795,000 Funded

16. Knox Mountain Tract Orange CE 2,600 2002 $650,000 $650,000 Funded

17. No Town/Chateauguay Windsor CE 1,257 2002 $800,000 $500,000 Funded

18. Bull and Sable 

Mountains Essex CE 24,405 2003 $2,800,000 $2,583,000 Funded
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Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

19. Chittenden County 

Uplands—Prelco Chittenden CE 1,730 2004 $1,500,000 $1,112,000 Funded

20. Chittenden County 

Uplands—Bolton Valley Chittenden CE 1,700 2004 $2,200,000 $1,630,000 Funded

21. Chittenden County 

Uplands—Andrews Chittenden CE 420 2004 $450,000 $333,000 Funded

22. Chittenden County 

Uplands—Snipe Island Chittenden CE 100 2004 $50,000 $36,000 Funded

23. Monadnock Mountain Essex FE 1,402 2004 $550,000 $494,000 Funded

Vermont 

Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 14 52,044 $10,128,000 $6,757,000

Total Funded 9 38,494 $10,470,000 $8,133,000
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Vermont 

Continued

For More Information

Kate Willard

Agency of Natural 

Resources

Division of Lands

103 South Main St., 10 

South

Waterbury, VT 05671

802–241–3697 (phone)

802–244–1481 (fax)

kate.willard@anr.state.vt.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us
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Virginia 
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Virginia 

AON Approval Date: January 16, 2001

Overall Goals

• Protect Virginia’s forests for future generations. 

• Use conservation easements as the prime tool.

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 2 2,591 $3,705,000 $2,571,000

Total Funded 5 2,866 $4,545,250 $3,343,544

For More Information

Mike Foreman

Dept. of Forestry

Fontaine Research Park

900 Natural Resources Dr.

Charlottesville, VA 22903

804–977–6555 (phone)

804–296–2369 (fax)

michael.foreman@dof.state.

va.us

Elizabeth Crane 

USDA Forest Service

1720 Peachtree Rd., NW.

Suite 846N

Atlanta, GA 30309

404–347–5214 (phone)

404–909–0267 (cell phone)

404–347–2776 (fax)

ecrane@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Gwathmey King William CE 535 2001 $811,000 $400,000 Completed 10/8/2003

2. Sandy Point on the 

Mattaponi River King William FE 2,056 2001–2003 $2,894,000 $2,171,000 Completed 6/1/2003

3. Romine—Castle Ridge Rappahannock CE 152 2003 $224,000 $168,000 Funded

4. Romine—Thornton 

River Rappahannock CE 392 2003 $576,000 $432,000 Funded

5. Dragon Run—Timber 

Branch King, Queen FE 414 2004 $1,036,000 $655,409 Funded

6. Dragon Run—Five 

Points King, Queen FE 785 2004 $1,303,000 $1,100,000 Funded

7. Emerald Necklace—

The Cove Halifax CE 1,123 2004 $1,406,250 $988,135 Funded
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Washington 
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Washington 

AON Approval Date: October 26, 1994

Overall Goals

• Protect water quality. 

• Provide habitats for native fish, wildlife, or plants. 

• Provide present or future timber management opportunities.

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Lind King FE 130 1995 $1,200,000 $1,200,000 Completed 7/16/2001

2. WRECO King FE 260 1995 $1,784,000 $1,784,000 Completed 12/22/1995

3. Plum Creek I King CE 559 1996 $2,727,000 $612,000 Completed 6/28/1999

4. Plum Creek II King FE 120 1997 $1,413,000 $1,413,000 Completed 2/14/1997

5. Plum Creek III King CE 160 1997 $1,575,000 $52,000 Completed 4/11/1997

6. Grouse Ridge & 

Middle For King CE 1,461 1998 $2,534,000 $1,142,000 Completed 6/26/1998

7. Mitchell Hill East King CE 425 1999 $4,245,000 $995,000 Completed 12/5/2000

8. Edge Phase I King FE 161 2000 $2,482,000 $1,801,000 Completed 7/27/2000

9. Kimball Creek King CE 80 2000 $954,000 $968,429 Completed 5/31/2001

10. Leong River King CE 55 2000 $598,895 $290,000 Completed 9/29/2000

11. Issaquah Creek 

Headwaters King CE 1,590 2001 $3,700,000 $2,800,000 Completed 12/4/2002

12. Rattlesnake Ridge 

Phase I King CE 80 2001 $1,212,000 $930,000 Completed 5/31/2001

13. Skykomish River King,

Landscape Parcel Snohomish CE 7,905 2002–2003 $2,820,000 $2,414,000 Completed 10/7/2003

14. Raging River Forest 

Headwaters Phase I King CE 2,500 2004 $1,333,333 $988,000 Funded

15. Yakima River Wildlife 

Corridor Kittitas CE 880 2004 $2,500,000 $1,482,000 Funded
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Continued

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 13 12,986 $27,244,895 $16,401,429

Total Funded 2 3,380 $3,833,333 $2,470,000
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Washington 

Continued

For More Information

Brad Pruitt

Dept. of Natural Resources

Resource Planning and 

Asset Management

P.O. Box 47037

Olympia, WA 98504–7037

360–902–1102 (phone)

360–902–1789 (fax)

brad.pruitt@wadnr.gov

John Henshaw 

USDA Forest Service

State and Private Forestry

1323 Club Dr.

Vallejo, CA 94592

707–562–8974 (phone)

707–562–9054 (fax)

jhenshaw01@fs.fed.us
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West Virginia
Forest Legacy Program National Report for Fiscal Year 2004 111

West Virginia

AON Approval Date: December 2, 2003

Overall Goals

• Protect from development, parcelization, and fragmentation regionally significant

properties that contain important environmental values but also contribute to the

working forest economies and local communities. 

• The following objectives were identified:

- Maintain large and intact forest land tracts.

- Invest in areas that will not be engulfed by other land uses.

- Facilitate compliance with program guidelines and avoid conflict with other industries.

- Conserve tracts with significant timber resource values.

- Support communities by conserving raw materials for the timber, recreation, and

tourism industries.

- Maintain important water features by conserving working forests, wetlands, and

riparian buffers.

- Sustain the most ecologically significant areas of the State.

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 0 0 0 0

Total Funded 1 154 $232,000 $174,000

For More Information

Dave Lilly 

Bureau of Commerce

Division of Forestry

1900 Kanawha Blvd. E.

Charleston, WV 25305

304–558–2788 (phone)

304–558–0143 (fax)

dlilly@gwmail.state.wv.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

1. Cooper’s Rock Preston FE 154 2004 $232,000 $174,000 Funded
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Wisconsin 
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Wisconsin 

AON Approval Date: January 16, 2001

Overall Goal

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. 

No. No. Estimated Total Total FLP

Tracts Acres Tract Cost Payment

Total Closed 2 35,337 $13,251,375 $5,000,000

Total Funded 3 17,785 $19,295,000 $6,397,000

For More Information

Nicole Potvin

Dept. of Natural Resources

Division of Forestry

P.O. Box 7921

Madison, WI 53707–7921

608–266–2388 (phone)

608–266–8576 (fax)

nicole.potvin@dnr.state.wi.us

Deirdre Raimo 

USDA Forest Service

P.O. Box 640

271 Mast Rd.

Durham, NH 03824

603–868–7695 (phone)

603–868–7604 (fax)

draimo@fs.fed.us

Project Tract County Type Acres Funding FY Tract Cost FLP Payment Status

Oneida, Vilas,

1. Tomahawk Northwoods Marathon, 

Phase I Lincoln, Iron, CE 10,000 2001 $3,750,000 $1,000,000 Completed 11/20/2002

Forest

Oneida, Vilas,

2. Tomahawk Northwoods Marathon, 

Phase II Lincoln, Iron, CE 25,337 2002 $9,501,375 $4,000,000 Completed 11/27/2002

Forest

3. Bad River Ashland, Iron CE 16,000 2003 $10,000,000 $3,428,000 Funded

4. Baraboo Hills 

Cooperative Sauk CE 950 2003 $1,995,000 $994,000 Funded

5. Holy Hills Project Area Washington CE 835 2004 $7,300,000 $1,975,000 Funded
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Contact Information for Participating State Lead Agencies

Alabama

Dan Dumont

Alabama Forest Resource Center

169 Dauphin St., Suite 302

Mobile, AL 36602

251–433–2372 (phone)

alfrc@bellsouth.net

Birgetta Giles

Forest Management Div. Director

Alabama Forestry Commission

513 Madison Ave.

Montgomery, AL 36130

334–240–9333 (phone)

334–240–9390 (fax)

GilesB@forestry.state.al.us

Alaska

Tina Long

Grants Administrator

Division of Parks and Outdoor Rec.

Dept. of Natural Resources

550 West 7th Ave., Suite 1380

Anchorage, AK 99501–3561

907–269–8709 (phone)

907–269–8907 (fax)

tina_long@dnr.state.ak.us

American Samoa

Mike Misa

Forestry Program

Land Grant Station

P.O. Box 5319 ASCC/AHNR

Pago Pago, AS 96799

011–684–699–1394 (phone)

011–684–699–5011 (fax)

mmisa@ascc.as

Arkansas

Jonathon Ayers

Arkansas Forestry Commission

3821 W. Roosevelt Rd.

Little Rock, AR 72204

501–296–1865 (phone)

jonathon.ayers@arkansas.gov

California

Jeff Calvert

Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection

P.O. Box 944246

Sacramento, CA 94244–2460

916–653–8286 (phone)

916–653–8957 (fax)

jeff.calvert@fire.ca.gov

Colorado

Joe Duda

Colorado State Forest Service

Colorado State University

203 Forestry Bldg.

Fort Collins, CO 80523

970–491–6303 (phone)

970–491–7736 (fax)

jduda@lamar.colostate.edu

Connecticut

Fred Borman

Dept. of Environmental Protection

Division of Forestry

79 Elm St., 6th Floor

Hartford, CT 06106 

860–424–3634 (phone)

860–424–4070 (fax)

Fred.borman@po.state.ct.us

Delaware

Austin Short

Dept. of Agriculture

Delaware Forest Service

2320 S. DuPont Hwy.

Dover, DE 19901

302–698–4548 (phone)

302–697–6245 (fax)

Austin.Short@state.de.us

Michael Valenti

Dept. of Agriculture

Delaware Forest Service

2320 S. DuPont Hwy.

Dover, DE 19901

302–698–4550 (phone)

302–697–6245 (fax)

Michael.valenti@state.de.us

Florida

Edward “Ed” F. Kuester III

Florida Division of Forestry

3125 Conner Blvd.

Tallahassee, FL 32399–1650

850–414–9929 (phone)

850–921–6724 (fax)

kuestee@doacs.state.fl.us

Georgia

Buford Sanders

Georgia Forestry Commission

1055 E. Whitehall Rd.

Athens, GA 30605

706–542–9939 (phone)

678–476–6230 (fax)

bsanders@gfc.state.ga.us
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Hawaii

Sheri Mann

Division of Forestry and Wildlife

1151 Punchbowl St., Room 325

Honolulu, HI 96803

808–587–4174 (phone)

808–587–0160 (fax)

Sheri.S.Mann@ hawaii.gov

Idaho

Kirk David

Idaho Dept. of Lands

3780 Industrial Ave. S.

Coeur d’Alene, ID 83815–8918

208–666–8626 (phone)

kdavid@idl.state.id.us

Illinois

Connie Waggoner

Dept. of Natural Resources

Division of Forest Resources

One Natural Resources Way

Springfield, IL 62702–1271

217–524–5464 (phone)

217–524–4177 (fax)

cwaggoner@dnrmail.state.il.us

Indiana

Dan Ernst

Dept. of Natural Resources 

Division of Forestry

402 W. Washington St., Room W296

Indianapolis, IN 46204

317–232–4101 (phone)

317–233–3863 (fax)

dernst@dnr.in.gov

Iowa

John Walkowiak

Dept. of Natural Resources

Bureau of Forestry 

Wallace State Office Bldg.

Des Moines, IA 50319

515–242–5966 (phone)

515–281–6794 (fax)

john.walkowiak@dnr.state.ia.us

Kentucky

Ben Ueltschi

Division of Forest Resources

627 Comanche Trail

Frankfort, KY 40601

502–564–4496 (phone)

502–564–6553 (fax)

ben.ueltschi@ky.gov

Maine

Ralph Knoll

Dept. of Conservation

Bureau of Parks and Lands

State House Station 22

Augusta, ME 04333

207–287–4911 (phone)

207–287–8111 (fax)

Ralph.knoll@maine.gov

Maryland

Patrick Meckley

Dept. of Natural Resources, Forest 

Service

580 Taylor Ave.

Annapolis, MD 21401

410–260–8504 (phone)

410–260–8595 (fax)

pmeckley@dnr.state.md.us

Massachusetts

Michael Fleming

Dept. of Environmental Management

180 Beaman St.

West Boylston, MA 01583

508–792–7423, ext. 502 (phone)

508–835–6018 (fax)

mike.fleming@state.ma.us

Michigan

Steve DeBrabander

Dept. of Natural Resources

Forest, Mineral, & Fire Management

Division

P.O. Box 30452

Lansing, MI 48909

517–241–3687 (phone)

517–373–2443 (fax)

debrabas@michigan.gov

Minnesota

Dick Peterson

Dept. of Natural Resources

Division of Forestry

1810 NW 30th St.

Faribault, MN 55021

507–333–2012 (phone)

507–333–2008 (fax)

richard.peterson@dnr.state.mn.us

Missouri

Brian Brookshire

Dept. of Conservation

P.O. Box 180

Jefferson City, MO 65102–0180

573–522–4115, ext. 3304 (phone)

573–526–6670 (fax)

brian.brookshire@mdc.state.mo.us
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Montana

Steve Knapp

Dept. of Fish, Wildlife & Parks

P.O. Box 200701

Helena, MT 59620

406–444–2612 (phone)

406–444–4952 (fax)

sknapp@state.mt.us

Nebraska 

Dennis Adams

Nebraska Forest Service

University of Nebraska East Campus 

Rm. 101, Plant Industry Bldg. 

Lincoln, NE 68583–0815

402–472–2944 (phone)

402–472–2964 (fax)

Nevada

Rich Harvey

Division of Forestry

2525 South Carson St.

Carson City, NV 89701

New Hampshire

Susan Francher

Dept. of Res. & Economic 

Development

Division of Forests and Lands

172 Pembroke Rd.

P.O. Box 1856

Concord, NH 03302

603–271–2214 (phone)

603–271–6488 (fax)

sfrancher@dred.state.nh.us

Bill Carpenter

Dept. of Res. & Economic 

Development

Division of Forests and Lands

172 Pembroke Rd.

P.O. Box 1856

Concord, NH 03302

603–271–3456 (phone)

603–271–6488 (fax)

bcarpenter@dred.state.nh.us

New Jersey

Pam Thier

Dept. of Environmental Protection

Green Acres Program

501 E. State St.

P.O. Box 412

Trenton, NJ 08625

609–984–0596 (phone)

609–984–0608 (fax)

pthier@dep.state.nj.us

New Mexico

Bob Sivinski

Forestry Division

P.O. Box 1948

Santa Fe, NM 87504–1948

505–476–3347 (phone)

505–476–3330 (fax)

bsivinski@state.nm.us

New York

S. McCrea Burnham

Dept. of Environmental Conservation

Division of Lands and Forests

625 Broadway 

Albany, NY 12233–4250

518–402–9405 (phone)

518–402–9028 (fax)

smburnha@gw.dec.state.ny.us

North Carolina

Dr. Mark Megalos

Division of Forest Resources

1616 Mail Svc. Cntr.

Raleigh, NC 27699

919–733–2162, ext. 254 (phone)

919–715–5773 (fax)

Mark.Megalos@ncmail.net

Ohio

Mark Ervin

Dept. of Natural Resources

Division of Forestry

1855 Fountain Square Ct.

Columbus, OH 43224–1327

614–265–6667 (phone)

614–447–9231 (fax)

mark.ervin@dnr.state.oh.us

Oklahoma

Kurt Atkinson

Forestry Services Division

2800 North Lincoln Blvd.

Oklahoma City, OK 73105

405–522–6147 (phone)

405–522–4583 (fax)

kurt@oda.state.ok.us

Oregon

Gregg Cline

Oregon Forest Legacy Program

Oregon Dept. of Forestry

2600 State St.

Salem, OR 97310

503–945–7482 (phone)

503–945–7212 (fax)

gcline@odf.state.or.us
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Pennsylvania

Gene Odato

Dept. of Conservation & Natural 

Resources

Bureau of Forestry

Rachel Carson State Office Bldg.

P.O. Box 8552

Harrisburg, PA 17105

717–787–6460 (phone)

717–783–5109 (fax)

godato@state.pa.us

Rachel Billingham

Dept. of Conservation & Natural 

Resources

Bureau of Forestry

Rachel Carson State Office Bldg.

P.O. Box 8552 

Harrisburg, PA 17105

717–783–0385 (phone)

717–783–5109 (fax)

rbillingha@state.pa.us

Puerto Rico

Edgardo Gonzalez

Dept. of Natural & Envir. Resources

P.O. Box 9066600

San Juan, PR 00906–6600

787–724–3647 (phone)

787–721–5984 (fax)

Rhode Island

Paul Ricard

Dept. of Environmental Management

2185 Putnam Pike 

Chepachet, RI 02814–1705

401–568–2248 (phone)

401–568–2045 (fax)

pricard@dem.state.ri.us

South Carolina

Emily Cope

Dept. of Natural Resources

P.O. Box 167

Columbia, SC 29202

803–734–3937 (phone)

803–734–9809 (fax)

CopeE@dnr.sc.gov

South Dakota

Greg Josten

SDDA, Resource Conservation & 

Forestry Division

3305 West South St.

Rapid City, SD 57702

605–394–2395 (phone)

605–394–2594 (fax)

Greg.josten@state.sd.us

Tennessee

Paul Diezman

Division of Forestry

P.O. Box 40627

Melrose Station

Nashville, TN 37204

615–837–5437 (phone)

615–837–5003 (fax)

paul.diezman@state.tn.us

Texas

Jan Davis

Forest Resource Development

Texas Forest Service

301 Tarrow, Suite 364

College Station, TX 77840

979–458–7320 (direct phone)

979–458–6650 (office phone)

979–458–6655 (fax)

jandavis@tfs.tamu.edu

U.S. Virgin Islands

David Howlett

Dept. of Agriculture

Estate Lower Love

Kingshill, VI 00850

340–778–0091, ext. 256 (phone)

340–778–7977 (fax)

davhowlett@yahoo.com

Utah

Ann Price

Division of Forestry, Fire and State 

Lands

1594 West Temple, Suite 3520

P.O. Box 145703

Salt Lake City, UT 84114–5703

801–538–5540 (phone)

801–533–4111 (fax)

Nrslf.aprice@state.ut.us

Vermont

Kate Willard

Agency of Natural Resources

Division of Lands

103 South Main St., 10 South

Waterbury, VT 05671

802–241–3697 (phone)

802–244–1481 (fax)

kate.willard@anr.state.vt.us

Virginia

Mike Foreman

Dept. of Forestry

Fontaine Research Park

900 Natural Resources Dr.

Charlottesville, VA 22903

804–977–6555 (phone)

804–296–2369 (fax)

michael.foreman@dof.state.va.us
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Washington

Brad Pruitt

Dept. of Natural Resources

Resource Planning and Asset

Management

P.O. Box 47037

Olympia, WA 98504–7037

360–902–1102 (phone)

360–902–1789 (fax)

brad.pruitt@wadnr.gov

West Virginia

Dave Lilly 

Bureau of Commerce

Division of Forestry

1900 Kanawha Blvd. E

Charleston, WV 25305

304–558–2788 (phone)

304–558–0143 (fax)

dlilly@gwmail.state.wv.us

Wisconsin

Nicole Potvin

Dept. of Natural Resources

Division of Forestry

P.O. Box 7921

Madison, WI 53707–7921

608–266–2388 (phone)

608–266–8576 (fax)

nicole.potvin@dnr.state.wi.us
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