2012 Secretary of Agriculture CFLRP Project Selections

On February 2, 2012, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new report, Increasing the Pace of Restoration and Job Creation on our National Forests (PDF, 5.9 MB), that outlines a strategy and series of actions for management on 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands managed by the U.S. Forest Service.

As part of the accelerated restoration strategy, $40 million for 20 forest and watershed restoration projects have been announced for the upcoming year. The funding includes ten new projects under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) program, continued funding for the original 10 projects selected under the CFLR program in 2010, and an additional $4.6 million to support other high priority restoration projects.

2012 CFLRP Projects

The following 10 new CFLRP projects are approved for funding in 2012:

1. Burney-Hat Creek Basins Project, California (PDF, 1.8 MB) - $605,000
2. Pine-Oak Woodlands Restoration Project, Missouri (PDF, 2.9 MB) - $617,000
3. Shortleaf-Bluestem Community Project, Arkansas and Oklahoma (PDF, 693 KB) - $342,00
4. Weiser-Little Salmon Headwaters Project, Idaho (.docx, 2.9 MB) - $2,450,000
5. Kootenai Valley Resource Initiative, Idaho (PDF, 2.4 MB) - $324,000
6. Southern Blues Restoration Coalition, Oregon (PDF, 3.8 MB) - $2,500,000
7. Lakeview Stewardship Project, Oregon (.docx, 3.2 KB) - $3,500,000
8. Zuni Mountain Project, New Mexico (PDF, 1.5 MB) - $400,000
9. Grandfather Restoration Project, North Carolina (.doc, 6.6 MB) - $605,000
10. Amador-Calaveras Consensus Group Cornerstone Project, California (PDF, 114 KB) - $730,000

Other Restoration Projects

The following three projects are considered high priority restoration and are approved for funding in 2012 outside of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Act:

1. Northeast Washington Forest Vision 2020, Washington (PDF, 2.0 MB) - $968,000
2. Ozark Highlands Ecosystem Restoration, Arkansas (PDF, 1.0 MB) - $959,000
3. Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Restoration and Hazardous Fuels Reduction, De Soto National Forest, National Forests in Mississippi  (.docx, 3.0 MB) - $2,710,000