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NFF Grant Partners and Projects

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie Turns 25!

Established by an act of Congress on February 10, 1996, the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie (Midewin) became the nation’s first National Tallgrass Prairie twenty five years ago. To mark this occasion, on February 10, 2021, the National Forest Foundation (NFF) hosted a virtual anniversary celebration.

NFF Empowers Youth Across Southeast Alaska: Growing our Impact and the Next Generation of Stewards

Today we are grateful to share in this power of partnerships and celebrate the success (and subsequent growth) of NFF’s-supported youth program in southeastern Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. In 2016, the NFF recruited four Tlingit high school-aged youth from Angoon, a remote village of 459 people on Admiralty Island.

Front Range Trail Stewardship Strike Team Supported Colorado’s Popular Trails

As Coronavirus strained Colorado’s already popular trails in 2020, the Front Range Trail Stewardship Strike Team Provided Some Relief

Partnerships Result in Invasive Species Reduction and Habitat Restoration in Sabino Canyon

The Coronado National Forest, National Forest Foundation (NFF), and Friends of Sabino Canyon (FOSC) are working together to conduct buffelgrass and other invasive species inventory and treatment in Sabino and Bear Canyons.

Gunnison County Stewardship Fund Supports Trails, Infrastructure in 2020

This summer the NFF worked alongside Gunnison County Stewardship Fund (GCSF) donors to allocate funding for several projects that will enhance public lands in Colorado’s Gunnison Valley.

Stewardship in the time of COVID – connecting trails, dirt, and responsible recreation in Oak Creek, Arizona

In Oak Creek Canyon in northern Arizona, the intensity of increasing use has led to unsafe parking along 89A, rogue and unauthorized trails down to the creek which increases erosion and sedimentation and subsequently poses significant water quality concerns.

Here’s the STOR-y: The NFF and Gunnison County Team Up to Create Stewardship Jobs

As with many mountain communities in Colorado, visitation to the Gunnison Valley is at an all-time high. Land managers observe that they have never seen our public lands as busy as they have been in recent years. NFF and Gunnison County officials acted urgently this past spring to prepare for the anticipated onrush of summer visitation. The partners quickly hatched the idea for the STOR Corps – a jobs-creation program modeled in-part after the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1920’s and in-part after the youth corps model that is so successful today.

Front Range Trail Stewardship Strike Team Begins Burning Bear Trail Construction

Earlier this season, the Front Range Trail Stewardship Strike Team started their first project on a Front Range Trail in Colorado. Invaluable support from VF Foundation made the Strike Team, a new pilot partnership between the NFF, USDA Forest Service, and Mile High Youth Corps (MHYC), possible in 2020.

Collaborating to Improve Deep Bay Cabin on the Tongass National Forest

The Tongass National Forest boasts 142 reservable cabins on its approximately 17 million acres. The Rasmuson Foundation generously provided support for the renovation of 10 Tongass cabins between 2019 and 2021. It’s an investment in spaces that uplift the wellbeing, culture, and economy of Southeast Alaska.

Youth Discover the Importance of Stewardship in Southern Oregon

In June 2019, 20 high school students from Southern Oregon’s Rouge Valley met as strangers under towering ponderosa pines in the forested mountains above the town of Ashland. Selected through a competitive interview process, these juniors and graduating seniors would spend the next five weeks learning the basics of ecological restoration and forestry as part of Lomakatsi Restoration Project’s Ashland Watershed Youth Training & Employment Program (AWYTEP).