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A Piece of the Puzzle: Providing Resources for Conservation Success
The NWTF has been working closely with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to reintroduce the Eastern wild turkey to its historic range in east Texas through the Eastern Wild Turkey Super Stocking Project.
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Continuing Habitat Success on Huron-Manistee National Forest and Surrounding Lands
The NWTF is continuing longstanding, and what has become regimented, teamwork with numerous partners to improve habitat for wild turkeys and many other wildlife in the Huron-Manistee National Forest near Muskegon, Michigan.
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Streamlining Habitat Improvements at a Local Level
While it is easy to attribute fire, in general, to destruction and ruin, not all fires are ruinous; in fact, many landscapes and the wildlife that inhabit them, thrive from strategic prescribed burning.
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Collaboration in Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest
The NWTF is collaborating with multiple partners to enhance wildlife habitat for wild turkeys and a variety of other game and nongame species in Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest.
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Partnerships, Healthy Forests and Happy Turkeys
Located on Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources’ T.M. Gathright Wildlife Management Area and part of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, the Bolar Mountain Burn Project is a forest restoration and habitat enhancement project between the NWTF and numerous partners.
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A Symbol of Success: Florida’s Wild Turkey Cost-Share Program
Through its dedication to improving wild turkey habitat, the Florida Wild Turkey Cost-Share Program continues to grow and keep Florida a turkey hunting destination. 
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Exemplifying Shared Stewardship Through Cooperative Foresters
Considering the over 40 years of successful partnership between the NWTF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it is easy to say that the shared stewardship approach taken to benefit natural resources is a well-oiled machine that delivers results.
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NPRRI: A Plan for the Plains
The Northern Plains Riparian Restoration Initiative has sustained momentum for more than a decade and continues to improve streamside habitat on public and private lands.
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Keeping the Crossroads in Good Hands
To better enhance and conserve wildlife habitat and forested areas in its America’s Crossroads Focal Region, the NWTF employs three foresters that deliver technical assistance and facilitate cost-sharing opportunities to private landowners.
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NWTF initiatives herald the future of conservation and America’s Big Six success
The NWTF's current and emerging initiatives are moving conservation efforts in a direction to increase pace and set the stage for future conservation delivery.
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NWTF’s Starr Aspen Project — Improving Forest Health on All Levels
NWTF's Starr Aspen Project is set to improve 130 acres of aspen stands and 11 miles of streamside restoration in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest.
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Assisting Private Landowners, Enhancing Wildlife Habitat and Making Communities Safer
NWTF’s Wyoming Cooperative Forester Austin Somerville coordinated with neighboring small-acreage landowners to design a 30-acre fuel break near Newcastle, Wyoming.
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Benefitting Turkey Populations and Local Communities in Montana
Helping fund cooperative biologist and forester positions with partners from all corners of the conservation industry is a common strategy the NWTF implements to enhance wildlife habitat and properly manage forests.
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The People’s Tree: Taking Conservation to Capitol Hill
While 2020 was a tempestuous year to say the least, there are still many reasons to be thankful as we wrap up the holiday season. Not only have the last couple years been great for conservation legislation, but this recent Christmas marked the 50th anniversary of the USDA Forest Service providing the Capitol Christmas Tree.
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Continuing Over 10 Years of Partnership in Vermont
The NWTF and the USDA Forest Service recently completed wildlife habitat enhancement projects on the Finger Lakes and Green Mountain National Forests.
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Teamwork in Arkansas’ Mississippi Alluvial Valley
The NWTF and other partners collaborated to fund a cooperative forester position to facilitate projects and enrollment in the Arkansas Bottomland Hardwood Conservation Partnership Initiative and NRCS’ Wetland Reserve Easement program in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley.
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Building Forest Resiliency in Wyoming
The NWTF, along with federal, state and local partners in the Black Hills/Pine Ridge focal landscape, continue projects originally aimed at mitigating the mountain pine beetle epidemic.
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Making Strides in NWTF’s Southern Piney Woods
Since 2011, the NWTF has been a partner in the West-Central Louisiana Ecosystem Partnership, a group of conservation-minded organizations interested in restoring and maintaining the longleaf pine ecosystem throughout central Louisiana.
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Enhancing Aspen for the Merriam’s Wild Turkey
NWTF’s South Dakota State Chapter helped fund a USDA Forest Service project to improve aspen stands on the Black Hills National Forest.
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Keeping the Momentum on Land Between the Lakes
The NWTF recently completed numerous projects from its multiyear stewardship agreement with USDA Forest Service on the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Improving Habitat in NWTF’s Shawnee Hills Focal Landscape
The NWTF and USDA Forest Service partnered on the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, part of the NWTF’s Shawnee Hills area of focus, to improve forest health and wildlife habitat on 550 acres.
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Restoring the Majestic Oaks of the Ohio River Foothills
Forests in southeastern Ohio have been evolving, often to their detriment, since the earliest wave of European American settlers moved into the state in the early 1800s. One of the most alarming changes is the steady loss of the mighty oaks that once dominated the forest canopy.
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Glade Restoration in the Mark Twain National Forest
The NWTF and the USDA Forest Service are working to restore glade ecosystems in Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest in the Ava, Cassville and Willow Springs ranger districts.
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Forest Health Improvements on Sequoia National Forest and National Monument
The NWTF partnered with Cal Fire, Great Basin Institute, USDA Forest Service, Mule Deer Foundation and University of Nevada, Reno on the Sequoia National Forest and Sequoia National Monument for the Eshom Ecological Project.
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Improving Wild Turkey Habitat in NWTF’s Allegany Mountains Focal Landscape
NWTF local chapters in Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Game Commission are collaborating to improve wild turkey habitat on game lands in the NWTF Allegany Mountains Focal Landscape.
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Private land habitat improvements in Texas
The NWTF and the many conservation organizations that make up the Northeast Texas Conservation Delivery Network recently worked with private landowners in 29 northeast Texas counties to restore wildlife habitat.
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NWTF helping to provide technical assistance to landowners
The NWTF recently partnered with Woodscamp Technologies Inc. to seek out and provide free technical assistance to interested landowners in northern Alabama, part of the NWTF’s Tennessee River and Oconee-Piedmont Focal Landscape.
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GOAL Accomplished
The NWTF recently finished its GOAL (Greater Okefenokee Association of Landowners) Stewardship Agreement benefitting about 7,000 acres of wildlife habitat since the agreement’s outset.
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Increasing Access in NWTF’s Loess Hills Focal Landscape
The NWTF and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leveraged funds to assist the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ purchase of a 174-acre property near Castana, Iowa, part of the NWTF’s Loess Hills Focal Landscape.
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Shared Stewardship Yields Success in the Lone Star State
The NWTF and the USDA Forest Service are mutually benefitting from an exchange of services that improved forest health and enhanced wildlife habitat in the national forests and grasslands in Texas.
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Collaborative Efforts in NWTF’s Great Open Spaces
The NWTF and partners collaborated throughout Oklahoma to restore streamside areas and use prescribed fire to improve roosting and loafing habitat on public and private lands.
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All for the Oak: Makeover of the Michindoh
Restoring oak savannas in the Michindoh region is key to sustaining healthy turkey populations in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
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Forest Restoration in NWTF’s Central Rockies Focal Landscape
As part of NWTF’s five-year cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office, habitat enhancement work is underway in the NWTF’s Central Rockies Focal Landscape.
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Carman Springs Natural Area Receives Invasive Treatment
The NWTF, USDA Forest Service and Conservation Legacy contributed funds to conduct a 70-acre selective herbicide treatment in Missouri to eliminate invasive species.
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Cattle and Conservation
The NWTF, along with property owners David R. and Mary Ann Daigle, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation leveraged funds on an 800-acre mature longleaf pine stand in Reeves, Louisiana.
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Habitat Improvements on the Tioughnioga Wildlife Management Area
The NWTF partnered with New York Department of Environmental Conservation and other conservation organizations to convert a 40-acre forested area to a grassland on the Tioughnioga Wildlife Management Area in Erieville, New York.
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Arkansas' Mentored Deer Hunt Yields Success
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and three Baptist churches in Clinton, Arkansas, partnered with the NWTF to conduct an annual R3 deer hunt for new teen hunters.
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Illinois Habitat Incentive Program
The NWTF, Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Illinois Natural Resource Conservation Service partnered to provide funds to private landowners through a Habitat Incentive Program.
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Habitat Enhancement on Nebraska’s Chadron State Park
The NWTF, Nebraska Environmental Trust, Nebraska Forest Service, Nebraska Game and Park Commission and the Boy Scouts of America partnered to enhance habitat in the Chadron State Park in Chadron, Nebraska.
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Quilting a Legacy for Conservation
When trying to imagine conservation efforts across the United States, visualize an unfinished quilt, where beautifully finished squares are sparsely interspersed with exposed batting.
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All Hands, Lands and Brands on Deck
Rocky Mountain Restoration Initiative represents an expansive partnership high on preventing wildfires, improving habitat in Colorado.
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Collaborative Strategies on Indiana’s Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge
Contributing to one’s local wildlife habitat has never been easier — for a small fee, you get an exclusive, state-specific NWTF license plate for your vehicle, and those additional funds help proliferate and manage wild turkey populations and enhance habitat for many other game and nongame species.
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Forest Restoration Efforts in NWTF’s Rocky Mountain Focal Landscape
The NWTF collaborated with the Upper South Platte Partnership – including Denver Water – USDA Forest Service, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, The Nature Conservancy, Colorado State Forest Service and others to facilitate forest restoration efforts in NWTF’s Rocky Mountain Focal Landscape; this partnership is known as the Rocky Mountain Restoration Initiative. 
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Crop Tree Management for Better Habitat
The NWTF recently completed a two-year crop tree release project in the Ironton Ranger District of the Wayne National Forest.
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Enhancing Habitat in Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge
The National Wild Turkey Federation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service collaborated on a 3-year prescribed burning and invasive species treatment in the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.
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Improving Forest Health in Nantahala National Forest
The NWTF along with other leading conservation organizations provided funds to restore and maintain early successional wildlife habitat and pine-oak woodlands in the Nantahala National Forest.
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Habitat Improvements along Hoosier Focal Landscape
The National Wild Turkey Federation and the USDA Forest Service demonstrated shared stewardship on the Pleasant Run and Tell City Ranger districts of the Hoosier National Forest.
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Habitat Enhancement on Western Dakota Focal Landscape
The NWTF joined forces with other leading conservation groups to begin a wildlife habitat enhancement project in the NWTF’s Little Missouri, Western Dakota Focal Landscape.
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Habitat Enhancement on the Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge
The NWTF and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted controlled burns on the Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge, a nearly 39,000-acre unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System that encompasses parts of both Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Florida Wild Turkey Cost-Share Program aiding habitat enhancement on public land
Through the Florida Wild Turkey Cost-Share Program, 385 acres of wildlife habitat were improved on the Little Big Econ State Forest.
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Turning a Logging Deck into Wildlife Habitat
The NWTF contributed to a two-year project to convert 25 existing log decks on the Big Woods Wildlife Management Area and the bordering Big Woods State Forest in Sussex County, Virginia, into a wildlife and pollinator habitat.
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Habitat Improvements on the Oconee
The NWTF recently completed a collaborative, multi-year habitat improvement project with the USDA Forest Service on the Chattahoochee Oconee National Forest, a nearly 1 million-acre forest in northern Georgia.
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A Collaborative Team Set to Study Wild Turkeys in North Carolina
On the cusp of winter and spring, a small team gathers before sunrise on a rural farm in the piedmont of North Carolina.
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Longleaf Pine Restoration in Southeast Georgia
As part of the Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt. initiative, the NWTF partnered with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to help restore longleaf pine ecosystems on public land in southeast Georgia.
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Improving Nesting in NWTF’s Tennessee River Focal Landscape
The NWTF contributed $34,000 in conjunction with Forest Service funds to manage approximately 1,000 acres to improve nesting, foraging and brood-rearing habitat for wild turkeys in Tennessee.
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Conservation in the Canyon
Through the USDA Forest Service Legacy Program, the NWTF and other conservation organizations contributed towards the purchase and conservation of 4,350 acres of scenic canyon lands in the NWTF’s Black Hills Focal Landscape.
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Post Oak Savanna Restoration Project in Texas Complete
The NWTF and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department recently completed a collaborative post oak savanna restoration project on the Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area.
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Impacting Wildlife Areas in Wisconsin
The NWTF contributed to two habitat restoration projects in the Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area and Crex Meadows Wildlife Area in Wisconsin.
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Project to improve grassland habitats in the Great Open Spaces
Conservation groups partner together to restore native grassland habitat on private lands in our Great Open Spaces focal landscape.
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NWTF helping to maintain habitat fencing in Arizona
The NWTF Arizona State Chapter Super Fund provided $500 to maintain habitat fencing in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.
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NWTF Helping to Create Forester Position in West Virginia
The NWTF orchestrated a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to create a full-time, term-limited forester position in one of NWTF’s focal landscapes.
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Rethinking Specifications and Planning to Promote Stewardship
Rowan Mason, TC Energy, and Roy Van Houten, Davey Tree and Wetlands Services, demonstrated the impact of shared stewardship across energy rights of way during one of Energy for Wildlife sessions at the NWTF National Convention and Sport Show, hosted by NWTF Director of Energy Partnerships Steve Barlow.
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Longleaf ecosystem restoration in Mississippi
The NWTF and the USDA National Resources Conservation Services partnered in NWTF’s Gulf Flatwoods focal landscape to enhance wildlife habitat.
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NWTF helping to provide conservation job opportunity in Arkansas
The NWTF contributed to the creation of a new employment opportunity focused on conservation in the delta of Arkansas.
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Internship opportunities available in Hoosier National Forest
The NWTF and Hoosier National are working together to provide summer internships for students interested in habitat restoration.
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America's Great Open Spaces
The NWTF contributed towards creating three new cooperative forester positions in the Black Hills-Pine Ridge focal landscape.
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Habitat Restoration in the Portneuf Wildlife Management Area
The NWTF and Idaho Fish and Game Department enhanced habitat for many game and nongame species and improved forest resiliency in the Portneuf Wildlife Management Area
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Lolo National Forest Burns
The NWTF, USDA Forest Service and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation leveraged a total of $67,500 for controlled burning to stimulate a variety of plant species in NWTF’s Northern Rocky Mountain focal landscape.
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Trestle Forest Health
In May 2018, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy awarded the NWTF $487,000 for the Trestle Forest Health Project.
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Chickasawhay and Mason Creek WMA Foodplots
The NWTF contributes to many habitat enhancement projects across Mississippi
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Edge feathering used to increase habitat structure
The NWTF and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife forged a partnership project to enhance habitat on the Major Gregory Sanborn Wildlife Management Area.
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Habitat Restoration Along the Pearl River
The NWTF and the USDA National Resources Conservation Service enhanced wildlife habitat along the border of the Pearl River and the Cameron Lakes in Mississippi.
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Missouri Landowner Workshops
Through the NWTF Missouri State Super Fund and two grants from the Conservation Federation of Missouri, the NWTF held five landowner ecology workshops.
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Mississippi Habitat-Enhancement Project
The NWTF and the USDA Forest Service demonstrate shared stewardship in Mississippi with a multiyear, habitat-enhancement project.
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Restoration in NWTF's Shawnee Hills Focal Landscape
The collaborative efforts between NWTF and partners allowed for the restoration of open woodlands in NWTF's Shawnee Hills Focal Landscape.
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Wyoming State Forestry Division participates in Great Open Spaces Project
The NWTF and the Wyoming State Forestry Division worked in Oak Creek and Crook Counties, Wyoming, part of NWTF’s Great Open Spaces Focal Region.
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Vermont Fish and Wildlife Conservation Project
The NWTF and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department collaborated to plant a 2-acre field on the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area in Addison, Vermont.
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Habitat Improvements Along the Touchet River
The NWTF, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Pheasants Forever partnered for a habitat improvement project on private lands along the Touchet River, part of NWTF’s Western Wildlands Focal Region.
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Youth Hunts in North Dakota
The NWTF and the North Dakota Game and Fish Department worked with a local landowner to conserve land and allow access for youth-only hunting in Burleigh County.
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Using historic land management techniques with a modern twist in Kansas
The National Wild Turkey Federation provided funds to construct barbed-wire fencing and establish reliable water sources within a 250-acre native-grass tract at the Wilson Wildlife Area in Russell County, Kansas.
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University of Tennessee Tree Research
The National Wild Turkey Federation supported reforestation efforts in Tennessee and assisted the University of Tennessee with ongoing research.
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Burnt Butcher Stewardship Project
The NWTF collaborated with the USDA Forest Service to carry out restoration efforts on Finger Lakes National Forest in Burdett, New York.
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Restoration of Longleaf in Alabama and Florida
The restoration efforts of longleaf pine forests along the coasts of Alabama and Florida are making substantial progress thanks in part to the NWTF.
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Conservation Partnership in Central Florida
The NWTF continued its support of The Nature Conservancy’s Central Florida Ecosystem Support Team efforts across Polk, Osceola and Highland counties.
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Stowe Land Trust
The NWTF contributed to the Stowe Land Trust’s purchase of a 750-acre parcel of forest in Stowe, Vermont, preserving the now public land and enabling use by future generations of outdoorsmen and women. 
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Habitat Enhancements on the LBL
The NWTF partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to provide habitat enhancements on the Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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Prescribed Fire for Longleaf Forest Health
The NWTF, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and The Nature Conservancy have joined forces for a second year, using prescribed fire to enrich longleaf pine forest habitat across public wildlife management areas in North Carolina.
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Missouri Mentored Dove Hunts
NWTF Missouri chapters helped conduct 16 mentored dove hunts, introducing hunting to numerous area youth, men and women.
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Wildlife Management in the Missouri River Breaks
The NWTF, the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and various other wildlife organizations demonstrated shared stewardship in what was a multiyear wildlife habitat restoration in the Missouri River Breaks region of central Montana.
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Canyon Access Initiative
12,500 acres of land are open for public access in the Loess Canyon area of Nebraska, thanks in part to the contributions from the National Wild Turkey Federation and a variety of other partners to Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s via the Canyon Access Initiative.
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Local Alabama NWTF Chapter makes service a priority
NWTF Alabama chapter, the Choccolocco Valley Longbeards, planted 10 acres of wildlife openings in the Ivory Mountain Walk-in Turkey Hunting Area (IMWTH) in Cleburne County, Alabama. 
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Charles Ray Nix Wildlife Management Area
The National Wild Turkey Federation and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks are collaborating to improve habitat and hunting quality in the Charles Ray Nix Wildlife Management Area. 
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Upper Hillsborough WMA Improvements
Hardwood mulching in the Upper Hillsborough Wildlife Management Area of central Florida provides ideal habitat for Osceola turkeys and other wildlife.
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Increasing brood habitat at the Truman Reservoir
The National Wild Turkey Federation and the Missouri Department of Conservation teamed up  to improve and increase open lands and wild turkey brood habitat at the Truman Reservoir, an area experiencing low hatch rates.
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Pollinator plantings in Vineland
Project includes planting warm season grasses and pollinator species on the Landis Sewage Authority, Quail Restoration Area.
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JAKES developing pollinator habitat
The NWTF Double Eagle chapter secured a Bayer Feed a Bee Grant to develop five acres of pollinator habitat and stage an educational JAKES field day.
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Timber stand improvement at Oakwood Bottoms
This 488-acre project was completed in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service through a stewardship agreement signed in 2018.
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Open for Business
Conservation work in the Ozarks, including the creation of wildlife openings, continues to benefit wild turkeys and other wildlife
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Improving brooding habitat on Knoxville Wildlife Area
This restored grassland provides increased nesting and brooding cover for Rio Grande wild turkeys and increased foraging through better insect production.
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Impacting acres in the Florida panhandle
Impact includes 1,800 acres conserved or enhanced, with 29,000 acres positively influenced in the Florida panhandle.
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Tree planting by the Souris River Basin Longbeards
The Souris River Basin Longbeards chapter in North Dakota started its successful tree-planting program almost 15 years ago.
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Forest management in the Pocono Mountains
The project will result in improved management of 2,500 acres of Delaware State Forest and 12,471 acres of state game lands.
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“Fire on the Forty” program
The “Fire on the Forty” program is an endeavor to promote use of prescribed fire across Mississippi through educational outreach and cost-sharing with private landowners.
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Prescribed fire in Southern ecosystems
This is an excerpt from the revised report “Introduction to Prescribed Fire in Southern Ecosystems” authored by the USDA Forest Service, Research and Development Southern Research Station in August 2012, revised 2015 and 2018.
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Improving forest health in the Daniel Boone National Forest
Prescribed fire, timber stand improvement and mechanical removal of invasive species around openings was integrated across the Stearns District of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
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Regenerating oaks on the Whitewater WMA
A 750-acre project to regenerate oaks on the Whitewater WMA and Doer Forest.
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Supporting Kansas through Super Funds
NWTF Super Funds in Kansas have been provided to support prescribed burning on both private and public lands to improve many acres of wildlife habitat by controlling undesirable woody species and improving grass and forb species.
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Hand-thinning timber in the Darby Ranger District
The Darby Ranger District is hand-thinning timber and using prescribed fire on 645 acres of the Como Horselick Project to reduce fuel loads and restore historic ponderosa pine savannah.
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Tree planting with Tennessee's Division of Forestry
A multi-year partnership between the NWTF and the Tennessee Division of Forestry is helping to replenish wildlife habitat.
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Landscape-scale habitat improvements across Colorado
Improvements include opening the forest canopy, reducing tree density and promoting increased tender, understory forage for feeding and nesting habitat.  
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Water wells at Cedar Bluff
In partnership with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, the NWTF created two water wells for wildlife in the Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area.
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Stewardship on the George Washington National Forest
Stewardship project on the George Washington National Forest along the Cowpasture River in Bath County, Virginia.
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Missouri's Hunter Recruitment Dove Field Initiative
Missouri’s New Hunter Recruitment Dove Field Initiative is a cooperative effort between the NWTF, Quail Forever, the Conservation Federation of Missouri, the Missouri Prairie Foundation and the Missouri Department of Conservation.
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Enhancing acreage on Manistee National Forest
This project recently enhanced 205 acres of oak forests, oak savannas and wildlife openings across southwest Michigan.
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Frenchtown Face Project
The NWTF collaborated with the USDA Forest Service and the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks on the Frenchtown Face Project – a project just west of Missoula, Montana, focused on prescribed burning and thinning ground cover in the Lolo National Forest to help wildlife and improve habitat.
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Habitat restoration on the Black Kettle National Grasslands
Through a Fiscal Year 2019 Oklahoma NWTF Super Fund grant to the Oklahoma Prescribed Burn Association, equip local prescribed burning associations to enable prescribed burning operations on private lands throughout focal landscapes in in south central, north central and northeastern counties.
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2019 improvements in Choccolocco WMA
Beginning in 2019, this harrow work will annually encompass between 1,000 to 1,500 acres.
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Rich in Resources
NWTF partnerships are improving riparian zones on public lands in Missouri, Illinois.
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Improving nesting and brooding habitat in the Ohio River Foothills
Establishing a diverse age of trees across the forest’s Ironton District.
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Hardwood improvements in the Savannah River Corridor
Thinning timber and harvesting less-desirable hardwood species allowed for more beneficial wildlife species such as walnut, oaks and beech.
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Retaining meadows in the Black Hills
Tools and techniques include hand-felling with chainsaws, lopping and scattering, girdling and mechanical piling to remove ponderosa pine and spruce from within and around aspen, birch and bur oak stands in the Sugarloaf project area.
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Increasing native grasses in Eldorado National Forest
This projected impacted 700 acres, improving crucial habitat for wild turkey, mountain quail and the Pacific deer herd.
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NWTF helps acquire land for access to the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge
The NWTF has contributed $22,000 and helped open access to more than 437 acres.
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Prescribed Fire Position Statement
The NWTF’s Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt. initiative is now focused on maintaining those healthy, sustainable and huntable wild turkey populations for generations to come. An important part of doing that is active habitat management, which includes the use of prescribed burning or prescribed fire.
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Riparian Forest Buffer Initiative
This project focuses on protecting streamside management zones for water quality, soil stability and improved habitat.
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GAR3 sets bar with annual meeting and hunt
The NWTF has found a unique way to support their continued R3 efforts in Georgia. Lynn Lewis, NWTF conservation field manager, certified wildlife biologist and a steering committee member of the Georgia R3 Initiative, plans and hosts the annual steering committee meeting.
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USFS Helo burns
With budget constraints, sustaining the health, diversity and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands has become a challenge. Using partnerships, such as the one with the NWTF, the work is being completed.
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Direct seeding success in Minnesota
Completing even small-scale projects can have a positive impact on wild turkey populations while benefiting other wildlife in the process.
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Dolores River Restoration Partnership
Economical pest management practices are helping control nonnative, invasive plants such as tamarisk and Russian knapweed, as well as to re-establish native plants in the historic floodplain.
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Wisconsin North Shore Chapter Learn to Hunt program producing new hunters and mentors
“By mentoring friends, not only do they get the Learn to Hunt experience, but they also may have a future hunting partner for years to come,” she said of the program’s young mentors.
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NWTF helps open hunting access across Wyoming
Through a special program organized by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the NWTF is helping open hunting access on private and public lands in Wyoming.
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The NWTF helps re-establish open woodland areas in Illinois
John D. Burk, NWTF district biologist for Missouri and Illinois, said the NWTF and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have worked to re-establish open woodland areas at Siloam Springs State Park in Adams and Brown counties and Hidden Springs State Park in Shelby County.
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Improving nesting habitat in Flat Tub WMA
Using prescribed fire during dormant and growing seasons to improve nesting and brood-rearing habitat.
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5 years of restoration in the Southern Piney Woods
Habitat restoration of desirable foraging, brood rearing and escape cover for wild turkeys, poults and bobwhite quail chicks.
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Generating watershed benefits for Great Open Spaces
The NWTF works to restore historical prairie grassland habitat.
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Restoring open woodlands in Illinois and Missouri
Overstocked forest thinning restores healthy conditions in the Shawnee Hills.
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Partnering for Success in Conservation
The NWTF’s 42nd annual Convention and Sport Show’s Conservation Conference brought together nongovernmental organizations, government partners, private companies and more interested in helping to preserve our nation’s precious wildlife.
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Riparian habitat along the Republican River
Upland habitat restoration, native grass restoration, tree and shrub establishment and excluding livestock from use of critical areas
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Private land habitat improvements in the Colonial Forests
The Regional Conservation Partnership Program is a four- year agreement with the Wildlife Management Institute to assist landowners in creating diverse habitat
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Enhancing nesting habitats in the Southern Piney Woods
In this project, prescribed burning is being used to enhance diverse native grass stands and forbs that provide brood-rearing and nesting habitat for healthy longleaf pine ecosystems.
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Timber thinning improves habitats in the Mid-South Rebirth region
New stands of oak-hickory, oak and mixed shortleaf pine-oak habitats are growing, thanks to timber thinning and mechanical treatments.
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Alterations in the Allegany
To combat a downtick in wild turkey numbers, the NWTF and partners work to restore parts of America’s Colonial Forests habitat
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New York park commemorates trap-and-transfer program
A new exhibit at the Allegany State Park Administration Building Museum commemorates the park’s role in trapping and transferring wild turkeys to other areas within New York and other Northeastern states.
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Treatments and harvests improve habitats in the Crossroads region
Timber harvest and chemical treatments of invasive buckthorn, red cedar and honeysuckle is under way.
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Project improves private land forest health in the Great Open Spaces
A cooperative forester position was developed in 2013 to work with partners in Wyoming’s Black Hills to improve forest health on private lands
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Green Mountain National Forest
The focal area for this project is the Eastern New York/Western New England area
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Louisiana project provides forester in the Southern Piney Woods
The grant will improve wildlife habitat, areas for public recreation, hunting and provide for the conservation of endangered species
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Longleaf restoration in the Mid-South Rebirth
More than 460 acres of longleaf pine were restored in this project
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Crossing borders for wildlife in America’s Crossroads
Eastern turkeys will thrive in this open woodland and savannahs with this healthy plant life.
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Great work, great partnerships in the Great Open Spaces
On this project, the removal of invasive Eastern red cedar was accomplished through mechanical means and herbicides.
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Wild about habitat improvements in the Ochoco National Forest
The Son Stewardship Project near Prineville, Oregon, is a five-year agreement between the Ochoco National Forest and NWTF.
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Treating acreage in central Florida
More than 45,000 acres in and around the Osceola focal landscape within central Florida have been treated with prescribed fire and herbicide over the last two years
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Sproul State Forest
Controlled burning on 290 acres in Pennsylvania’s Sproul State Forest aims to address mature scrub oak, which last burned during a 1970 wildfire
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Prescribed burn plans for Illinois landowners
NWTF provides prescribed burn plans to local landowners interested in using fire to burn grasslands or timber in central Illinois
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Cumberland Plateau
Developing safe fire breaks and creating small openings in timber, planting of shortleaf pine and using controlled burns minimize the long-term effects of devastating wildfires in Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest and the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area
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Pinaleño Ecosystem Restoration
The 5,000-acre Pinaleño Ecosystem Restoration Project includes about 3,300 acres of timber harvest
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Thinning Ponderosa Pine
Effort protects remaining green islands of pines following catastrophic fires in 2006 and 2012
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NWTF, CPW and Land Board form unique partnership to buy hydro ax
Work to improve habitat for a variety of wildlife will now be conducted year-round across Colorado thanks to a unique new public-private partnership between Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the Colorado State Land Board and the National Wild Turkey Federation.
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NWTF and NRCS partner with land owners in the Southern Flatwoods
Three-year agreement between NWTF and NRCS to thin forests and remove exotic plants through timber management and prescribed fire
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Seeing Potential in the Pine Ridge and the Burgeoning Black Hills
Despite obstacles and management hurdles, the NWTF’s focus remains in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Nebraska’s Pine Ridge
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Southern New York Habitat Improvement
Establishing young forest habitat on private lands through the Wildlife Management Institute’s four-year Regional Conservation Partnership Program award from the NRCS on private lands in New York
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Forest Regeneration on Richard Dorer State Forest
Regenerating older maple and basswood forests to red oak, white oak and bur oak during a three-year project on the Winona, Minnesota, Whitewater WMA and Richard Dorer State Forest
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Oak Woodland and Grassland restoration
Five-year oak woodland and grassland restoration project to boost populations of Rio Grande wild turkeys, northern bobwhite quail, other grassland birds and white-tailed deer from south-central Oklahoma to southeast Texas
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NWTF and NRCS work to restore hardwood forests
A three-year agreement between the NWTF and NRCS promotes restored, native mixed shortleaf pine and hardwood forests in Florence, Decatur, Moulton and Huntsville, Alabama
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Lolo National Forest prescribed burn
Prescribed burning of Montana’s Lolo National Forest is helping game species — wild turkeys, ruffed grouse, elk and mule deer — and nongame animals, such as flammulated owls and pileated woodpeckers
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The Power of Partnerships
“We can’t do the work that we want to do without state agencies,” explained Ricky. “We’re just a nonprofit so to have a partner like FWC is crucial, it’s critical. We could not even come close to making the impact we do without them.”
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Prescribed Fire Projects
One key to successful habitat projects is forging solid partnerships between multiple agencies.
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The True Identity of America’s Conservationists
Hunters are the boots-on-the-ground, hands-on conservationists of today
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To the president’s desk: “Wildlife for the 21st Century: Volume V”
Nearly 50 conservation groups worked to recommend vital conservation-related solutions to the new president and congress.
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Merriam’s of the Zuni Mountains
Partnerships are restoring habitats in the Zuni Mountains.
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Partnerships in Action
Impacting more hunters and wildlife through partnerships
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Sky Island Gould's
Gould’s wild turkeys in the United States were completely wiped out in 1929 but are now restored to huntable populations
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NWTF Oklahoma Aids Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation in Land Acquisition
At a recent meeting of the NWTF Oklahoma State Chapter’s board of directors, funding was allocated to assist Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation in the acquisition of a nearly 1,400-acre property located in Osage County, Oklahoma.
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Northeast Provides Habitat During Extreme Weather
The NWTF and its conservation partners are working to restore forest openings in Green Mountain National Forest.
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Invasive Species Across the Country: Southern Piney Woods
Invasive Species Across the Country: Great Open Spaces
Invasive Species Across the Country: Mid-South Rebirth
Invasive Species Across the Country: Colonial Forests
Invasive Species Across the Country: Western Wildlands
Invasive Species Across the Country: America’s Crossroads
Maintaining Oaks for Better Winter Habitat
Less competition for oaks means more acorns and healthier turkeys.
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NWTF Dollars At Work: Cañada de Los Osos Guzzler Project Phase I
Wildlife relies on spring box guzzlers during the drought.
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Researching Merriam's Wild Turkeys to Better Tune Habitat
Habitat and wildlife can take a beating during times of severe drought and harsh winters in the West. 
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Yellowtail Management Area Receives Invasive Treatment
Wyoming’s Yellowtail Wildlife Habitat Management Area is being rid of invasive species.
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Land Makeovers in Illinois
Work with the NWTF to improve the land on your property.
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National Forests Receive Aid in Virginia
Several strategic partners are pooling efforts under a cooperative agreement to work 16 unique projects in the George Washington and Jefferson national forests.
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A 2,180-mile Hike for Conservation
NWTF Houston member Brandon Jacob will hike all 2,190 miles of the Appalachian Trail to help raise funds for conservation.
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Habitat Help for the Karner Blue Butterfly
The NWTF's habitat work benefits wild turkeys and numerous other species.
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Plants Receive Aid From Woodland Restoration Project
Forest openings in the dense woodland benefits multiple rare plants.
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Boosting Cerulean Warbler Populations Through Habitat Work
A unique upland habitat enhancement project will help curb the decline in cerulean warbler populations.
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Grassland Restoration Project to Impact Nesting Success
Pennsylvania to execute projects that provide, create and enhance wildlife habitat.
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Cooperative Efforts Improve Habitat
Cooperative efforts near Bison, South Dakota, by the USDA Forest Service and the NWTF are improving habitat for many animals, including ruffed grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, Merriam’s wild turkeys, deer and elk.
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NWTF and State Agencies Team Up to Restore Habitat
Teaming up with state agencies and other conservation groups is one way the NWTF stretches its dollars.
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Grassland Restoration Projects in Action
Projects in the Upper Midwest work to restore grasslands destroyed by urban sprawl and development.
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Grassland and Oak Woodlands Restoration
Projects in New Mexico and Nebraska help habitat reach its full potential.
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Georgia Projects Create Woodland Savannas
The NWTF and its partners focus on dwindling grasslands and savannas across the U.S.
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Forests get the NWTF touch in Arizona and New Mexico
States received multiple benefits from forest thinning.
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Improving Forest Health in Alabama
Teamwork projects on forest health improve habitat for all species in Alabama.
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Illinois Projects Shed Light on Forest Health
Opening the forest and removing honeysuckle has improved the forest floor in Illinois.
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A Trip Through America’s Crossroads
Explore America's Crossroads with us.
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Projects Boost Turkey Production in the West
The removal of an invasive species leaves more water for native habitats to flourish.
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Promoting Edge Habitat in Kentucky
Field edge boarders provide excellent food and cover for wildlife, which is why the NWTF and the USDA is working to keep them.
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Focus on the Finger Lakes National Forest
Habitat work in New York improves the lifestyle of wild turkeys and other wildlife species.
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H2O in Florida
Projects in Florida are underway to improve forest and wildlife habitat while preserving water quality.
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Water conservation in the Midwest
Water is the building block for everything. Find out how people can preserve this precious resource.
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Wild West Water
Folks in Idaho take steps to improve water quality and wildlife habitat.
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NWTF lauds work on the Sportsmen's Act of 2015
There's progress on a bill that benefits America's community of sportsmen, and we're happy about it.
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Management Plans on Private Lands
Join forces and participate in the longleaf pine restoration initiative.
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A Trio of Riparian-Related Efforts
Out with the invasive, in with the native. Find out why riversides and creek bottoms are booming.
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Taking Cover Seriously
Cover is three-dimensional in the eyes of the wild.
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Osceola National Forest Improvements
Learn what improvements are being made to the Osceola National Forest.
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Black Kettle WMA
What’s good for turkeys is good for wildlife.
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Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest Upgrade
Habitat management means more turkeys!
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NWTF Florida continues to make a positive impact
Partnerships stretch Super Fund money to make a bigger impact in Florida.
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NWTF to Impact 15,000 Acres
Kentucky and Tennessee acres get critical habitat work.
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Overcoming Habitat Deficits on Public Lands
Partnerships are vital to the success of turning public land into ideal habitat.
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Regional Projects Create Diversity in Habitat
Early successional habitat in Louisiana and Mississippi
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Restoring Wild Turkeys in East Texas
Turkey populations rev up due to Texas officials.
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Ft. Meade Recreation Area Changes
Find out how the land was then and how it is now thanks to conservation projects.
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The Big Six of Wildlife Conservation
With six new identified regions of the ecosystem, our conservation issues will be easier to tackle.
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