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NFF's Ski Conservation Fund supports on-the-ground projects in Colorado.

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  • Restoration Work at the site
  • Restoration after the sediment erosion
  • The Upper South Platte filled with sediment after the Hayman Fire.
  • A Vail Volunteers lends a hand. Vail Resorts Photo by Peter M. Fredin.
  • Vail Volunteers Give Back. Vail Resorts Photo by Peter M. Fredin.
  • Vail Volunteers restoring their backyard forest. Vail Resorts Photo by Peter M. Fredin.
  • Vail Volunteers restore the landscape after the Hayman Fire. Vail Resorts Photo by Peter M. Fredin.
  • Vail Voluteers give back on a Friends of the Forest Volunteer Day. Vail Resorts Photo by Peter M. Fredin.
  • Ecological damage along Trail Creek.
  • Erosion damage along Trail Creek.
  • A washed out Trail Creek.
  • Trail Creek in need of restoration.
  • Media and partners gather to tour damage from Tropical Storm Irene on the White Mountain National Forest.
  • The Hayman Fire's destruction
  • Vail Volunteers. Vail Resorts Photo by Peter M. Fredin. (More photos are available for download at the NFF Image Library.)
  • 2011 Ride for Two Rivers cyclists take a snack break under the Ponderosa Pines while heading up McKenzie Pass.
  • Support your sleep and support our natural resources
  • The contest aims to motivate student teams to create business plans that reflect real opportunities for finding market-based incentives to address forest stewardship challenges on National Forest System lands.
  • A young volunteer helps out at a Friends of the Forest day on the Deschutes National Forest on National Public Lands Day this past September.
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  • Give the gift of trees this holiday season.
  • Give the gift of trees this holiday season
  • Rain Erosion from the Hayman Fire at the Pike National Forest.
  • Sonadei bike jersey supporting the Deschutes National Forest
  • At the Indian Ford Meadow Reserve in Deschutes National Forest, a painter works to capture the Oregon landscape.
  • Riding through central Oregon, participants bike to support the Metolius and Whychus watersheds on the Deschutes National Forest.
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  • More than 300 shooters and guests attended the National Forest Foundation's 17th annual Sporting Clays Invitational in New York.
  • A clear sunny day showcases the majestic peak of the Mount of the Holy Cross in the White River National Forest.
  • Ponderosa Pines frame the Metolius River in the Deschutes National Forest.
  • Restoration work continues as a stream crossing is restored at shop Lane in the New Jersey Highlands.
  • Viewers gaze out across the lake at Waterton National Park, Alberta.
  • A young artist captures the beauty of the Metolius River in Deschutes National Forest, Oregon.
  • A shooter at the Sporting Clays Invitational.
  • Watershed restoration begins on the Pike National Forest after the destruction of the Hayman Fire.
  • For each Plow & Hearth holiday ornament sold, a tree will be planted.
  • Restoration work continues at the Pike National Forest to help the forest recover from the devastation Hayman Fire of 2002.
  • Riders from Cycle Oregon give back to the lands they traveled through through a Friends of the Forest Day.
  • Volunteers from MillerCoors, Wildlands Restoration volunteers and Trout Unlimited repaired the riparian area of the West Fork Clear Creek.
  • More than 35,000 trees were planted at Custer National Forest.
  • The National Forest Store offers maps of National Forests, Grasslands and Wilderness areas.
  • The National Forest Foundation has developed a Carbon Calculator to help estimate your carbon footprint, or the amount of carbon dioxide that your daily activities release into the atmosphere through the combustion of fossil fuels.
  • Two pals from Superior Elementary pull weeds on Straight Creek Trail in Lolo National Forest for a Friends of the Forest Day.
  • 70 Volunteers gathered to plant trees for a Friends of the Forest day at Mt. Hood National Forest near Welches, Oregon.
  • Workers trim tree branches to reduce fuel for forest fires.

NFF Specialists

Mary Mitsos

Vice President, Conservation Programs 
NFF conservation programs, community-based conservation
406-830-3351 
mmitsos@nationalforests.org

Wes Swaffar

Ecosystem Services Program Manager
Tree-planting & Carbon Capital Fund programs 
406-830-3356 
wswaffar@nationalforests.org

Kathleen Dowd-Gailey

Director, Northwest Programs 
NFF programs in WA, OR, AK, ID 
206-832-82820 
kdowdgailey@nationalforests.org

Vance Russell

Director, California Program 
NFF programs in CA 
530-758-2609 
vrussell@nationalforests.org

Adam Liljeblad

Director of Conservation Awards
Grants and grant programs
406-830-3357
aliljeblad@nationalforests.org

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