Northeastern Area

Reports and Achievements

Featured Projects Archive

These Featured Project briefs from previous fiscal years show the range of support provided by the NAS&PF to its partners.

Featured Project briefs from the current fiscal year can be found here.

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FY 2012

Fire and Aviation Management

• Cooperative Fire Programs: State by State Accomplishment Highlights for FY 2011
• State and Volunteer Fire Assistance Programs

Forest Health and Economics

• American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: Wood-based Energy for Maine's Public Buildings
• Asian Longhorned Beetle Eradication: New infestation threatens Ohio forests
• Emerald Ash Borer
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Initiative: Protecting hemlocks in the East
• National Gypsy Moth Management Program
• Oak Wilt in the Northeast
• Southern Pine Beetle in New Jersey
• Thousand Cankers Disease of Black Walnut
• Woody Biomass: An Abundant Resource for Energy and Other Uses

Forest Stewardship

• Connecticut-New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania Highlands Region: Regional conservation of important lands
• The Stewardship Project: Practicing Stewardship at the Landscape Scale

Multi-Program Initiatives

• Fiscal Year 2011 Competitive Allocation Process

Sustainablility and Planning

• State Collaboration with National Forests: State Forest Action Plans Foster State-Federal Relationships
• State Forest Action Plans: Protecting Forests, Now and in the Future

Urban Forest Health Monitoring

• Urban Forest Health Monitoring: Assessing Threats from Invasive Pests in Urban Forests

Watershed

• Chesapeake Watershed Forestry: Forests are needed to protect and restore a national treasure
• Connecticut-New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania Highlands Region: Regional conservation of important lands
• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: An Abundant Resource for Energy and Other Uses

Wood Education and Resource Center

• Wood Education and Resource Center

FY 2011

Ecosystem Services

• Climate Change and Ecosystem Services

Fire and Aviation Management

• State and Volunteer Fire Assistance Programs

Forest Health and Economics

• Asian Longhorned Beetle Eradication

• Emerald Ash Borer
• National Gypsy Moth Management Program
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Initiative
• Invasive Plants: Rapid Response and Cooperative Weed Management Areas
• Thousand Cankers Disease of Black Walnut
• Wood Education & Resource Center
• Woody Biomass, An Abundant Resource for Energy and Other Uses

Forest Stewardship

• Corporate Partnerships
• The Stewardship Project

Sustainability and Planning

• 2010 Statewide Forest Resource Assessments and Strategies

Urban and Community Forestry

• Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast and New York

Watershed

• Chesapeake Watershed Forestry
• Upper Mississippi Forest Partnership

FY 2010

Fire and Aviation Management

• Northeastern Wildfire Risk Assessment

Forest Health and Economics

• Asian Longhorned Beetle Eradication
• Emerald Ash Borer
• National Gypsy Moth Management Program
• Wood Education & Resource Center
• Woody Biomass, An Abundant Resource for Energy and Other Uses

Forest Management

• Stewardship of the New York City Watersheds

Forest Stewardship

• Reforming the Forest Stewardship Program in the Northeastern Area: A New Approach for New Realities

Multi-Program Initiatives

• Upper Mississippi River Watershed Forestry Partnership

Office of Knowledge Management

• Climate Change and Ecosystem Services
• Connecticut—New York—New Jersey—Pennsylvania Highlands Region
• Landscape-scale Conservation: Collaboration by Design
• Statewide Forest Resource Assessments and Strategies

Urban and Community Forestry

• Mayor Daley’s GreenStreets Program

Watershed

• Chesapeake Watershed Forestry

FY 2009

Forest Management

• Stewardship of the New York City Watersheds

FY 2008

Fire and Aviation Management

• Connecticut Rural Fire Council Holds ISO Workshop
• Military Wildland and Prescribed Fire Programs
• Missouri Ice Storm Mitigation Plan
• Priority Trainee Program Revision
• US Marine Corps Five-Year Watershed Assistance Project

Forest Health and Economics

• Early Detection and Rapid Response for Exotic Forest Pests
• Emerald Ash Borer
• Forest Health Monitoring
• Forest Health Survey and Technical Assistance
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Initiative
• Invasive Plant Program
• Mapping Risk of Tree Mortality from Insects and Diseases
• National Gypsy Moth Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
• Sirex noctilio:Exotic European Woodwasp
• Slowing the Spread of the Gypsy Moth
• Wood Education & Resource Center
• Woody Biomass Utilization

Forest Management

• The Bay Bank™
• Chesapeake Watershed Forestry
• Connecticut-Pennsylvania Highlands Regional Study: 2008 Update
• Forests, Water & People Assessment
• New Products in Urban Forestry
• Watershed Exchange and Technology Partnership

Multi-Program Initiatives

• Sustainable Operations—Greening the Northeastern Area

Office of Knowledge Management

• Forest Sustainability Indicators Information System
• The National Information Center
• Spatial Analysis Project – WebDET / WinDET

FY2007

Fire and Aviation Management

• Army/USDA Forest Service Partnership
• Communities at Risk and Community Wildfire Protection Plans
• Healthy Forest Restoration

Forest Health and Economics

• Community Tree Inventory Pest Detection
• Emerald Ash Borer—An Integrated Response in Ohio
• Sudden Oak Death Surveys
• Urban Forest Health Monitoring

Forest Management

• Addressing Intergenerational Transfer
• The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forestry Program
• Criteria and Indicators of Sustainability
• Highlands Conservation Act
• Mayor Daley’s GreenStreets Program
• NAS&PF Pilots Stewardship Plan Monitoring
• Northeast Pennsylvania Urban and Community Forestry Program
• A Protocol for Monitoring Best Management Practices

FY2006

Fire and Aviation Management

• The National Fire Plan
• The National Response Plan
• Wildland Urban Interface Assessment

Forest Health and Economics

• Early Detection of and Rapid Response to Exotic Forest Pests
• Emerald Ash Borer

Forest Management

• Community-Based Watershed Partnerships
• Cuyahoga American Heritage River
• Forest Legacy Program—Monitoring Task Force
• Forests, Water & People Assessment
• Spatial Analysis Project—Forest Stewardship Program
• Stewardship of New York City Watersheds
• Watershed Exchange and Technology Partnership
• Web-DET—Forest Stewardship Program

Grants and Agreements

• Grants.gov

Multi-Program Initiatives

• Grey Towers National Historic Site
• The National Information Center
• Strengthening Public Affairs in the Northeastern Area