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Meet the National Forest Foundation, official partner of the Forest Service

Image shows a man and a woman in hard hats standing at one end of a wooden bridge in a forest, looking at building plans.
Editors’ note: This is a guest article from the National Forest Foundation. The NFF’s Jeff Malik visits the Rainbow Campground on a trail project with Forest Service staff on the Mt. Hood National Forest. (National Forest Foundation photo by Maggie Kirkland) We believe in a world where caring…
#NationalForestFoundation, #Partnerships, #Partners, #Recreation, #AquaticRestoration, #ForestRestoration, #Restoration, #Resilience, #WildfireCrisis

Restoring old-growth River Cane Systems and cultural connections

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Research partners taking measurements of restored river cane stands during the June 2024 site visit. (USDA Forest Service by Donna Kridelbaugh) ARKANSAS — Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Roger Cain, ethnobotanist and member with the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma,…
cultural, #AquaticRestoration, #HabitatRestoration, #EcologicalRestoration

Small improvements have big benefits for our aquatic friends

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Hinton Creek at 3¾ Road, Site #1, before culvert replacement. (Photo courtesy Trout Unlimited) WISCONSIN—Walking through USDA Forest Service lands here in the Eastern Region, it is easy to enjoy the sound of multiple small streams, zig-zagging alongside and through two-track-access roads and galvanized-pipe…
#Culvert, #AquaticRestoration

Firefighting beavers

Five people standing in knee-deep water and celebrating. Right side shows three aerial images of the same place, over time.
A Beaver eating a willow branch. (USDA Forest Service Photo) When you think of beavers, what comes to mind? Busy engineers, pesky rodents, or how about firefighters?You may already know that beavers are a keystone species, meaning many other species of animals, plants and people in the…
#Beavers, #AquaticRestoration

Alaska celebrates success in aquatic passage upgrades, interagency collaboration

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When the fish return, we all win, including the brown bears that fish for salmon. USDA Forest Service photo by Erwin Weston. ALASKA—Passion, shared vision and common goals are paving the way for new fish passage improvement projects throughout Alaska. The Federal Highway Administration released the first…
#FishHabitat, #HabitatRestoration, #AquaticRestoration, #Collaboration

Partnership restores brook trout in five ponds within five years

Man holding a brook trout in the middle of a lake
Native brook trout migrate in a waterway in Maine. The USDA Forest Service, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and Trout Unlimited are working together to restore native brook trout within their historic range. (Freshwaters Illustrated photo by David Herasimtschuk) A fine mist rolled off the…
#NativeFish, #Fish, #Habitat, #Watershed, #Reclamation, #Recreation, #AquaticRestoration, #Trout