Northeastern Area Forest Legacy Program
Projects completed to date in FY2003
in the Northeastern Area
State |
Date |
Project |
Acres |
Total Value |
FLP Payment |
| Illinois |
10/8/2002 |
Daysville |
93 |
$365,000 |
$273,000 |
| This easement will keep the natural forest cover on the bluffs along the Rock River between two State Parks and a State Forest. |
| Wisconsin |
11/27/2002 |
Tomahawk Northwoods
Phase 1 |
10,000 |
$3,750,000 |
$1,000,000 |
| Wisconsin |
11/27/2002 |
Tomahawk Northwoods
Phase 2 |
25,337 |
$9,501,000 |
$4,000,000 |
| These parcels in the northern part of the State are the first Wisconsin properties to be protected from development by the FLP. |
| Maine |
12/9/2002 |
Mt Blue State Park / Tumbledown Mountain PH 1 |
11,611 |
$3,300,000 |
$2,141,000 |
| The goal for the area is to conserve over 30,000 acres the area is valued for its recreational resources and productive managed forests. |
| Minnesota |
12/20/2002 |
7-Mile Woods #3 |
45 |
$105,900 |
$95,000 |
| Minnesota |
12/20/2002 |
Cannon River Big Woods #1 |
88 |
$447,500 |
$359,000 |
| Minnesota |
12/24/2002 |
7-Mile Woods #1 |
148 |
$387,400 |
$330,000 |
| Minnesota |
12/27/2002 |
7-Mile Woods #2 |
80 |
$210,100 |
$5,000 |
| Minnesota |
12/27/2002 |
7-Mile Woods #4 |
20 |
$10,000 |
$10,000 |
| Part of the Rice County Forest Legacy Area where a larger effort to protect and restore the Minnesota Big Woods is occurring. |
| Vermont |
12/23/2002 |
Mt. Holly Wildlife Corridor |
391 |
$303,000 |
$303,000 |
| Vermont |
12/31/2002 |
Mt. Holly Wildlife Corridor Cost Share |
273 |
$340,000 |
$0 |
| Part of an effort to connect the two units of the Green Mountain National Forest with a conserved corridor for wildlife
|
| New Jersey |
12/27/2002 |
Highlands Greenway |
257 |
$859,000 |
$600,000 |
| The property is an important component in protecting the upper reaches of the Passaic River watershed. |
| Indiana |
12/30/2002 |
Rattlesnake Creek |
163 |
$145,000 |
$122,500 |
| This property has a diversity of habitat types including uncommon fens and has a high potential to support endangered species. |
Massachusetts
|
3/8/2003 |
2-Mile Landbridge |
467 |
$350,000 |
$330,000 |
| Maintains a critical forested corridor between Petersham State Forest to the west and Popple Camp Wildlife Management Area to the east. |
| Indiana |
3/19/2003 |
Jack's Defeat Creek |
225 |
$397,500 |
$338,000 |
| Property has over 1,000 feet of perennial stream frontage and is intermixed with karst landscape features |
| Maine |
4/29/2003 |
Leavitt Plantation |
8,603 |
$2,735,000 |
$596,000 |
| The Leavitt Plantation is the largest contiguous managed forest ownership in York County Maine. |
| Maine |
4/30/2003 |
Mattaw-amkeag |
3,338 |
$894,700 |
$500,000 |
| These lands were visited often beginning in 1878 by one of the country's pioneering conservationists President Teddy Roosevelt. |
| Maine |
5/16/2003 |
Mt. Blue State Park |
4,198 |
$481,000 |
$481,000 |
| Over 19,000 acres have now been protected with conservation easements of fee purchases in the Mt. Blue / Tumbledown project |
| Rhode Island |
6/10/2003 |
Canonchet |
471 |
$1,000,000 |
$550,000 |
| This project adds a link to a chain of protected lands—to the east is the State of Rhode Island’s Rockville Management Area and to the west is Connecticut’s Pachaug State Forest. |
| Indiana |
6/23/2003 |
River's Edge |
77 |
$167,000 |
$167,000 |
| Water resources are protected as the property borders the Little Calumet River and is in close proximity to Lake Michigan. |
| Massachusetts |
7/28/2003 |
Hatfield Watershed |
12 |
$90,900 |
$69,600 |
| Adds to a single block of over 600 protected acres of contiguous forest land. Both public and private forest lands help ensure the recharge of the town reservoir that provides drinking water for over 60,000 people. |
| Rhode Island |
8/25/2003 |
Coventry Greenway |
72 |
$296,000 |
$296,000 |
| Coventry Greenway tract is part of a public regional bike path and recreational trail located on a reclaimed railroad line. The old Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad line, completed in 1854, connected the two State capitals. |
| Massachusetts |
9/08/2003 |
Williams |
14 |
$35,000 |
$35,000 |
| The tract is part of the Stockbridge–Yokum Ridge Forest Legacy Area, providing scenery and open space benefits. |
Year to Date FY06
Total |
65,983 |
$26,171,000 |
$12,601,100 |
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