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