[RWG] USDA's Joint Landscape Restoration Partnership

[De Angelis, Patricia]

This partnership looked interesting. I'm not sure when proposals are
requested but believe the funding may be through the Farm Bill (perhaps a
listserve member will know)
.

The following is an excerpt from
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/mt/home/?cid=STELPRDB1246412

The United States Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation
Service entered into a multi-year partnership, the Chiefs’ Joint Landscape
Restoration Partnership, to improve the health and resiliency of forest
ecosystems where public and private lands meet across the nation.

The vision is to restore lands across large landscapes regardless of
ownership, reduce wildfire threats to communities and landowners, protect
water quality and supply, and improve habitat for at-risk species
seamlessly across public and private lands.

To accomplish this, Forest Service and NRCS are launching a coordinated
effort on priority forested watersheds to deliver on-the-ground
accomplishments by leveraging technical and financial resources, and
coordinating activities on adjacent public and private lands.

There are now 28 Landscape Restoration Partnership projects in 25 states
addressing critical conservation issues in a wide range of ecosystems.

These projects build on existing projects and partnerships. By leveraging
technical and financial resources and coordinating activities on adjacent
public and private lands, conservation work by NRCS and FS will be more
efficient and effective in these watersheds.

The agencies are reviewing additional sites for collaboration and will
continue to build upon this “all lands” approach to landscape restoration.

This is the second year of this effort. See a map of projects across the
Unites States, and  Hawai'i:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/features/?cid=stelprdb1244394

2014 projects:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/features/?cid=stelprdb1245070


2015 projects:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/features/?cid=stelprdb1270755
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