Northeastern Area

State and Private Forestry Success Stories

Complete List of Success Stories

These success stories are just a few examples of how the technical and financial assistance provided by the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry improves forest health and increases community vitality.

American Reinvestment & Recovery Act

• Conservation Jobs Training: Program Tackles Invasive Plant Issue and Fills Workforce Shortage
• Ecosytem Recovery: Southeastern Massachusetts Hazardous Fuels Mitigation

Conservation Education

• Building Capacity in Wisconsin: From Small Seeds Grow Big Dreams
• Gilmore Nature and Fitness Trail: Nature Trail Expands Outdoor Opportunities for Rural Community
• Minnesota Foresters Return to School!
• Teaching Tomorrow’s Conservation Leaders Today
• Workshops Teach the Teachers
• You are the Forest Manager—Interactive CD-ROM
  

Fire and Aviation Management

• Automated Flight Following System: Safety for Everyone
• Bloodhounds Aid in Fire Prevention and Fire Investigations
• Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) Minnesota DNR, Division of Forestry
• Dry Hydrant Installation Program Maryland DNR Forest Service 2004
• Education and Preparedness Efforts Produce Results
• Federal Excess Program Provides Valuable Equipment for State Wildfire Management
• Firefighter Property Program Places Needed Vehicle in Missouri
• Fire & Aviation Management
• Firewise Outreach at Jakes Branch County Park
• Hazard Mitigation Burning in Lewes, Delaware
• Hazard Mitigation Practices at Indiana Dunes Reduce Wildfire Threat
• Incident Command System Training
• Lakeside Maine Residents Becoming LakeSmart and Firewise
• Maine Defensible Space Chipping Program
• Massachusetts Obtains Fire Boats through FEPP/FFPP Programs
• Michigan Expands Its Firewise Communities Project
• Mid-Atlantic Wildfire Training Academy
• Minnesota Hazard Mitigation
• Mirroring Organizations & Cooperative Integration: Enhancing a Cooperator’s Aviation Program
• Mobile Firewise Educational Exhibit Educates Residents
• New Hampshire Sprinkler Demo Trailer: Federal Excess Property Fills Gap for Prevention Program
• New Jersey’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
• Ohio's Carroll County Volunteer Fire Department Converts Military Truck
• Remote Automated Weather Station Networks Aid States and their Partners
• Rum River Boy Scout Camp Becomes Firewise
• Sri Lanka Disaster Simulation Exercise
• Stanley, IA, Sees Success in the FEPP Program
• Streamlining the Process: Requesting Waivers to Operate Aircraft in Flight Restricted Zones
• The Midwest Wildfire Academy Celebrates Over 10 Years of Success
• The Vermont Rural Fire Protection Task Force
• Traprock Hazard Reduction Project
• West Virginia Uses Volunteer Fire Assistance Funding to Train Wildland Firefighters
• Wildfire Awareness in Iowa’s Urban/Rural Interface
• Wildland Urban Interface Education/Hazard Reduction Program
• Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Assessment Model

• Battling Beetles in Chicago
• Benefits From Cooperative Management Plan for Invasive Plants
• Biosurveillance: Forest Managers Use Wasps to Search for Invasive Beetle
• Chicago Asian Longhorned Beetle Eradication Program
• Cooperative Efforts Battle Emerald Ash Borer Beetle in Maryland
• Coordinated Ice Storm Recovery Efforts: Neither Rain, nor Hail, nor Snow, but Ice….
• Coordinating Across State Lines for Healthier Forests
• Coping with the Costs: Conference Convened for Communities Coping with Invasive Insects
• Detecting Tiny Invasive Insects Early Can Make a Big Difference
• District of Columbia Enhanced Pest Detection Program: Students Monitor Urban Wood, Gain Knowledge and Experience
• Emerald Ash Borer, A New Exotic Invasive
• Emerald Ash Borer University Webinars Deliver Quality Information for Little Cost
• Emerald Ash Borer Web Site Provides Wealth of Timely Information
• Eradication of an Outlying Oak Wilt Infection in New York State
• Firewood Forum
• From Obscurity to Notoriety: Large Gray Willow
• Getting Prepared for the Emerald Ash Borer
• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: Chicagoland Communities Work to Combat the Emerald Ash Borer
• Healthy Forests Served by Digital Aerial Sketchmapping
• Invasive Plant Partnership Improves New Hampshire’s Coastal Watershed
• Lake States Aerial Survey Program: Helping Make Aerial Survey Data Even Better
• NA Leading the Shift from Paper to Digital-based Forest Health Monitoring
• Northeastern Bark Beetle and Woodborer Taxonomy Training
• Minnesota's Forests are Gypsy Moth Free for Another Year
• Monitoring Paves the Way to Conservation Policy
• NJ Forest Service Replants Communities’ Trees
• Planting DED Tolerant American Elm in the Upper Mississippi Watershed
• Predatory Beetle Offers Hope for Saving Eastern Hemlocks
• Predicting Forest Health on the Green Mountain National Forest
• Protecting Forest Health Through Spatial Information
• Public-Private Collaboration Restores Capitol Tree’s Health
• Sizing Up Destruction: Managing for Results at Largest EAB Delimitation Survey in New York
  
• Tree Climbing Training in Hardwoods: Innovative Program Helps Monitor Urban Forest Health Conditions
• Tree Pittsburgh: City of Pittsburgh Develops Urban Forest Master Plan
• Tree Risk Assessment Workshops: Sharing Expertise in Assessing Tree Risk With Partners

Forest Legacy

• Connecting Protected Forests with Conservation Easements
• Conserving New Jersey’s Highlands/Upper Delaware River Watershed
• Forest Legacy Program Focuses Land Protection Efforts
• Highlands Forests in Connecticut Now Permanently Protected
• Key Granite State Land Acquisition Links Nearly 2,000 Natural Acres
• Koochiching Forest Legacy Project
• LaBarque Creek Watershed Project: First Forest Legacy Project in Missouri
• Massachusetts Partnership Creates Conservation Synergy: Multiple Landowner Approach Achieves Landscape-Scale Results
• Nearly a Quarter Million Acres Conserved
• NY State and Open Space Institute Protect Adirondack Gateway
• Protecting Forested In-holdings in Larger Protected Blocks
• Protecting Forests in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Watershed
• Protecting Jobs and Forests - The Katahdin Forest Project in Maine
• Protecting Minnesota’s Private Forests
• Protecting Multiple-use on Large Working Forests
• Protecting Working Forests and Partnerships in the Heartland
• Rallying Multiple Landowners to Conserve Large Forest Blocks
• Scouting Easements: Forest Conservation in an Urbanizing State
• Vinton Furnace Partnership Protects Ohio's Largest Privately Owned Forest

Grey Towers

• Grey Towers is Rededicated

Information Management

• Using New Approaches and New Products to Present Forest Resource Data

Stewardship

• 2005 NEFA Forum Advocates Ongoing Mechanism
• All-Lands Approach to Conservation in the Northeast and Midwest
• Backyard Woods: Bring Your Vision to Life
• Baltimore County—Proactively Managing Forest Resources for the Future
• Baltimore-Washington Partnership for Forest Stewardship Expands with MOU Signing
• Boy Scouts Protect Hemlocks on Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation
• Cost Effective Small-Scale Harvesting
• Cuyahoga American Heritage River: The Transition from Public to Private
• Demonstration Areas Showcase Sound Stewardship Practices
• Driftless Area Forest Stewardship Initiative
• Follow the Flow
• Forestry Threatens Sprawl
• Kiski Basin Initiative: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Excellence
• Non-traditional Forest Products Addressed
• Planning in West Virginia: Country Roads Take Me Home…
• Preserving and Enhancing Wildlife Habitat: Coveting NH Coverts
• Stewardship Down Home on the Farm
• The Impact of Invasive Plant Species
• Using GIS to Predict Pollution in Pennsylvania
• Who Will Inherit?

Sustainable Operations

• Greening Forest Service Offices in the Northeast and Midwest: Microgrants Fund Sustainable Operations at 18 Locations

Technology Transfer

• Collaboration Creates Ways to Share Information and Solutions

Tribal Relations

• Nation to Nation: Tradition of Collaboration is Pathway to Future

Urban Forestry

• A Recipe for Reaching Out
• After the Ice Storm: Assessing Kansas City’s Response
• Assuring Reliable Power and Healthy Trees
• Building Region-wide Partnerships for Urban Forestry
• Cincinnati Urban Wood Utilization Program: Using Park Trees for School Lockers
• Connecting Urban Residents with Natural Resources
• Early Planning Lessens Emerald Ash Borer Impact on City
• Increasing State and Local Capacity to Eradicate Emerald Ash Borer
• Intern Develops Skills for a Career in Urban Forestry
• Investing in the Next Generation of Foresters
• I-PED Pest Detection Initiative: Discovering Harmful Insect Pests and Diseases in Community Forests
• Placing a Price on Nature’s Free Services
• Program Links Urban Youths to Careers
• Putting Technology Into the Hands of Communities
• Replanting the Trees of the Hudson Valley
• Restoring Nature to Urban and Industrial Habitat
• Revitalizing Baltimore City Watershed
• Shade Tree Short Courses Cost-Efficient Technology Transfer
• Students Learn Valuable Land Restoration Techniques
• The People’s Garden Incorporates Urban Wood Products
• The Roots of Community Forestry—Project Canopy
• Trees as Living Memorials Nurture the Human Spirit
• Upper Mississippi River Watershed—Bottomland Ecosystem Restoration Conference
• Urban Tree Risk Management: A Community Guide to Program Design and Implementation
• Using Cable Access for Forestry—Lights! Camera! Tree Action!
• What is a Tree Worth? Find out with the Tree Benefits Calculator
• Wisconsin’s Urban Forests: Partnership in Action
• Workshops Build Trail Accessibility for All
• You Seek, UFind: Urban and Community Forestry—National Technology Transfer Team

• Awards Recognize the Promotion of Trees and Forests in the Bay
• A Regional Landscape Success Story
• Baltimore-Washington Partnership for Forest Stewardship Expands with MOU Signing
• Catskill WoodNet—Good Wood, Clean Water
• Clean Water: Land Conservation Helps Protect the Meramec River
• Focusing to Keep the Water Clean and the Birds Happy
• Grant Funding Supports Chesapeake Bay Restoration Projects
• Growing Native
• Habitat Conservation Grants for Migratory Birds of the Upper Mississippi
• Helping Local Partners Restore the Chesapeake
• Looking Beyond Traditional Programs
• Natural Resources Conservation Service Joins Upper Mississippi Forest Partnership
• Upper Mississippi River Forestry Partnership
• Workshop Aims to Protect and Mange Northeast Water Resources

Wood Education and Resource Center

• Advancing Education and Outreach on Biomass Thermal Energy
• Catskill WoodNet—Good Wood, Clean Water
• Collaboration Creates Ways to Share Information and Solutions
• Communities Prepare for Loss of Ash Resource
• Council Supports Northeastern U.S. Utilization and Marketing Specialists
• Crawford Central School District Woody Biomass Project
• Forest Products Industry Stays Connected Through New Web Site
• From Wood Residues to Wood Pellets: Measuring the Environmental Impacts of Making Wood Fuel Pellets
• Hardwood Manufacturers in Northern Minnesota Gain Marketing Expertise
• Hispanic Worker Integration in the Wood Products Industry
• Increasing Use of Forests for Energy
• Indiana Forests Play a Vital Role in Providing Goods and Services
• International Standards for Wood Packaging Material
• Logs to Lumber—WVU Appalachian Hardwood Center
• Missouri Schools Fire Up Savings with Woody Biomass Heating Systems
  
• New Hampshire’s Sawmills Success Story
• National Skills Standards for Woodworkers
• Planning and Analysis in Timber Harvesting: Software Tool Helps Companies Expand, Contract, and Plan for the Future
• Project Demonstrates Using Mechanized Equipment to Process Urban Trees
• Promoting Urban Wood Resources and Developing Markets
• Prospects for Enhancing Opportunities in the New Jersey Hardwood Industries
• Serving American Indian Communities: Addressing Tribal Concerns about Emerald Ash Borer
• Treatment System Desiccates Pests in Wood Packaging Materials
• A Twin Cities Case Study: Using Industrial Clusters to Build an Urban Wood Utilization Program
• Upgrading and Improving the “Managing Your Woodlot” Web Site
• Using Local Softwood Timber for Lumber Production in New York
• Using Wood in the Aftermath of EAB: Opportunities in Southeastern Michigan
• WERC Woody Biomass Technical Assistance Team
• Wood and Thermoplastic Polymers Create High-Value Products
• Woody Biomass: Making Wood ‘WERC’ for U.S.

Wood In Transportation

• Forest Products Industry Stays Connected Through New Web Site
• Bridge Features New Engineered Wood Product
• Illinois Communities Prepare for Loss of Ash Resource
• Increasing Use of Forests for Energy
• Serving American Indian Communities: Addressing Tribal Concerns about Emerald Ash Borer
• Wood and Thermoplastic Polymers Create High-Value Products