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2018

LWCF Success Story: Brule-St. Croix Legacy Forest, Wisconsin

Author: Hal herring
The Brule-St. Croix Legacy Forest is a working landscape of the American heartland, 67,205 acres of forest and water with a long history of logging, snowmobiling, hunting and fishing, far from even the nearest cities of Eau Claire or Minneapolis and Duluth. This is rural northern Wisconsin, south of Lake Superior, and writ large, ecologically rich (moose, wolves, black bear, globally unique pine barrens, 80 small lakes and wetlands, 14 miles of trout streams, sharptail grouse dancing on leks ...
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Aug

2018

LWCF Success Story: Rensselaer Plateau, New York

Author: Hal herring
The Rensselaer Plateau in eastern New York state holds the state’s fifth largest stretch of forestland, surprising in its vastness of more than 100,000 acres. Wildlife abounds, with game species such as grouse, whitetailed deer, black bear and wild turkey thriving, along with a host of creatures rare in the East: fishers, bobcats, moose, a life list of migratory songbirds.   This near perfect example of a robust northern mixed hardwood – sugar maple, red oak, yellow birch – and conifer ...
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Aug

2018

LWCF Project at Risk: Hood River Forest and Fish Conservation Plan, Oregon

Author: Hal herring
The Hood River Forest and Fish Conservation Project is a plan to conserve 19,772 acres of working forestlands in Hood River County, Oregon, one of the fastest growing counties in the state. The acreage is surrounded on three sides by the Mount Hood National Forest. It’s traversed by two major tributaries of the Hood River that supply drinking water to over 8000 people and irrigation water for over 21,000 acres.   The forest here protects the cold and clear waters that are vital habitats for ...
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