USDA Forest
Service
Northeastern Area
Durham Field Office
271 Mast Road
Durham, NH 03824
(v) (603) 868-7600
(f) (603) 868-7604
(tdd) (603) 868-7603
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Projects Completed in FY2003 in the Northeastern Area
State
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Date
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Project
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Acres
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Total Value
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FLP Payment
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Illinois
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10/8/2002
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Daysville
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93
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$365,000
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$273,000
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This
easement will keep the natural forest cover on the bluffs
along the Rock River between two State Parks and a State Forest.
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Wisconsin
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11/27/2002
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Tomahawk Northwoods Phase
1
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10,000
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$3,750,000
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$1,000,000
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Wisconsin
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11/27/2002
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Tomahawk Northwoods Phase
2
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25,337
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$9,501,000
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$4,000,000
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These
parcels in the northern part of the State are the first Wisconsin
properties to be protected from development by the FLP.
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Maine
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12/9/2002
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Mt Blue State Park / Tumbledown
Mountain PH 1
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11,611
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$3,300,000
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$2,141,000
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The goal
for the area is to conserve over 30,000 acres the area is
valued for its recreational resources and productive managed
forests.
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Minnesota
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12/20/2002
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7-Mile Woods #3
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45
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$105,900
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$95,000
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Minnesota
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12/20/2002
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Cannon River Big Woods #1
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88
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$447,500
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$359,000
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Minnesota
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12/24/2002
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7-Mile Woods #1
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148
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$387,400
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$330,000
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Minnesota
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12/27/2002
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7-Mile Woods #2
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80
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$210,100
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$5,000
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Minnesota
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12/27/2002
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7-Mile Woods #4
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20
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$10,000
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$10,000
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Part of the Rice County Forest
Legacy Area where a larger effort to protect and restore the
Minnesota Big Woods is occurring.
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Vermont
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12/23/2002
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Mt. Holly Wildlife Corridor
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391
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$303,000
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$303,000
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Vermont
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12/31/2002
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Mt. Holly Wildlife Corridor
Cost Share
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273
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$340,000
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$0
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Part of an effort to connect
the two units of the Green Mountain National Forest with a conserved
corridor for wildlife
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New Jersey
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12/27/2002
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Highlands Greenway
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257
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$859,000
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$600,000
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The property is an important
component in protecting the upper reaches of the Passaic River
watershed.
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Indiana
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12/30/2002
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Rattlesnake Creek
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163
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$145,000
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$122,500
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This property has a diversity
of habitat types including uncommon fens and has a high potential
to support endangered species.
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Massachusetts
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3/8/2003
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2-Mile Landbridge
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467
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$350,000
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$330,000
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Maintains a critical forested
corridor between Petersham State Forest to the west and Popple
Camp Wildlife Management Area to the east.
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Indiana
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3/19/2003
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Jack's Defeat Creek
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225
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$397,500
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$338,000
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Property has over 1,000 feet
of perennial stream frontage and is intermixed with karst landscape
features
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Maine
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4/29/2003
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Leavitt Plantation
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8,603
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$2,735,000
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$596,000
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The Leavitt Plantation is the
largest contiguous managed forest ownership in York County Maine.
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Maine
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4/30/2003
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Mattaw-amkeag
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3,338
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$894,700
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$500,000
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These lands were visited often
beginning in 1878 by one of the country's pioneering conservationists
President Teddy Roosevelt.
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Maine
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5/16/2003
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Mt. Blue State Park
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4,198
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$481,000
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$481,000
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Over 19,000 acres have now been
protected with conservation easements of fee purchases in the
Mt. Blue / Tumbledown project
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Rhode Island
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6/10/2003
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Canonchet
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471
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$1,000,000
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$550,000
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This
project adds a link to a chain of protected lands—to the east
is the State of Rhode Island’s Rockville Management Area and
to the west is Connecticut’s Pachaug State Forest.
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Indiana
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6/23/2003
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River's Edge
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77
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$167,000
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$167,000
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Water
resources are protected as the property borders the Little Calumet
River and is in close proximity to Lake Michigan.
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Massachusetts
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7/28/2003
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Hatfield Watershed
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12
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$90,900
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$69,600
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Adds
to a single block of over 600 protected acres of contiguous
forest land. Both public and private forest lands help ensure
the recharge of the town reservoir that provides drinking water
for over 60,000 people.
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Rhode Island
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8/25/2003
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Coventry Greenway
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72
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$296,000
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$296,000
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Coventry
Greenway tract is part of a public regional bike path and
recreational
trail located on a reclaimed railroad line. The old Hartford,
Providence & Fishkill Railroad line, completed in 1854,
connected the two State capitals.
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Massachusetts
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9/08/2003
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Williams
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14
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$35,000
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$35,000
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The
tract is part of the Stockbridge–Yokum Ridge Forest Legacy
Area, providing scenery and open space benefits.
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FY2003
Totals
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65,983
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$26,171,000
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$12,601,100
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