During the 2005 Centennial Year Challenge (CYC), the NFF concentrated its efforts on the four natural resource issues the U.S. Forest Service Chief identified as threats to the National Forest System: fire and fuels, invasive species, unmanaged recreation, and habitat fragmentation. The NFF awarded grants to nonprofit organizations working on or adjacent to National Forests and Grasslands to address these threats in a collaborative way. Below is a list of the CYC Awards:

Northwest Connections and Swan Ecosystem Center (MT)
Swan Valley - Forest Stewardship Initiative
Flathead NF
To promote forest stewardship in Montana's Swan Valley by working on collaborative fuels reduction and forest restoration projects on both private and public lands.

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (MT)
Protecting Critical Wildlife Habitat on and near the Helena National Forest in Montana
Helena NF
To address habitat fragmentation on and around the Helena National Forest by assisting landowners with the costs and appraisals associated with protecting critical in-holdings through land acquisition.
www.rmef.org

Madison Valley Ranchlands Group Weed Committee (MT)
Madison Valley New Invader Project
Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF
To address Montana’s Category I and II noxious weed threats through collaborative mapping, monitoring, educational outreach and 50/50 cost-share provided to landowners in targeted locations.
www.madisonvalleyranchlands.org

Teller Wildlife Refuge (MT)
Integrated Weed Management at Teller Wildlife Refuge
Bitterroot NF
To re-vegetate a wetlands area currently infested with Canadian Thistle and several other noxious weeds to improve riparian habitat.
www.tellerwildlife.org

Wyoming Natural Resource Foundation (WY)
North Fork of the Shoshone River Public and Private Lands Noxious Weed Project
Shoshone NF
To provide weed control along the U.S. Highway 14-16-20 corridor through  inventory and control of Leafy Spurge, Spotted and Russian Knapweed, Dalmatian Toadflax and Tamarisk on 3,000 acres of public and private lands.
www.conservewy.com

Backcountry Snowsports Alliance (CO)
Vail Pass Winter Recreation Site: Collaborative Citizen Monitoring and Education Project
White River NF
To address unmanaged recreation by examining both motorized and unmotorized use through citizen-based monitoring of designated areas.
www.backcountryalliance.org

Public Lands Partnership; Unc/Com. Inc. (CO)
Fuels Reduction, Salvage Logging and Community-Based Monitoring
Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre & Gunnison NF
To complete two community-driven, action-oriented fuels reduction projects and to resolve conflict through collaborative learning, monitoring and adaptive management in West-Central Colorado.

Uncompahgre Plateau Project (CO)
Collaborative Weed Management Plan & Treatment Program
Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre & Gunnison NF
To create an integrated weed management strategy that includes weed monitoring, treatment and education.
www.upproject.org

Sky Island Alliance (AZ)
Inventory, Restoration, and Monitoring of Non-System, User-Created Roads
Coronado NF
To utilize volunteers to inventory location and impacts of all roads within the Eastern Santa Rita Mountains. Once inventory is completed a monitoring program will be created around appropriate road decommissioning and rehabilitation.
www.skyislandalliance.org

Grand Canyon Wildlands Council (AZ)
Conserving the Mogollon Rim
Coconino NF
To protect and restore critical wildlife habitat on the Mogollon Rim through on-the-ground restoration efforts that include controlling or eradicating exotic species and reducing road densities to protect sensitive wildlife.
www.grandcanyonwildlands.org

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (NM)
Taos County Fuels Reduction and Forest Restoration
Carson NF
To use its youth development mission to achieve forest restoration on 35 acres in the Questa/Lama Wildland Urban Interface Project Area in Taos County.
www.youthcorps.org

Wild Utah Project (UT)
Community Involvement in Off-Highway Vehicle Management
Wasatch-Cache NF
To improve community collaboration over OHV management and use through monitoring efforts by a diverse volunteer working group of motorized and non-motorized users, conservation organizations and scientists.

www.wildutahproject.org
Four Corners School of Outdoor Education (UT)
Canyon County Youth Corps
Manti La Sal NF
To complete 100 acres of invasive species Tamarisk control in high infestation areas in the Manti La Sal National Forest. This project also aims to complete 5,000 acres of baseline data collection in the Manti La Sal on undispersed OHV and recreational use.

www.fourcornersschool.org

Great Old Broads for Wilderness (UT)
Manti-La Sal Recreation Monitoring and Restoration Project
Manti La Sal NF
To assist the Forest Service in maintaining the integrity of forest and grassland resources by providing local citizen-based monitoring, data collection, and analyses of designated routes and closed areas involving volunteers.
www.greatoldbroads.org

Student Conservation Association (CA)
Inyo Forest Restoration Team
Inyo NF
To recruit and deploy a six-person restoration team to restore degraded areas on forest land and to engage the community in invasive species removal, OHV impact restoration and trail maintenance.
www.thesca.org

Shasta Conservation Fund (CA)
Lakehead Community Fuels Reduction Days
Shasta-Trinity NF
To engage residents bordering the national forest in the removal of woody debris from their property to increase defensible space and reduce fire risk. Woody debris is then processed by a chipper into fuel for a local wood-fired plant or used for mulch.
www.westernshastarcd.org

Mono Lake Committee (CA)
Mapping Plan and Removal of Invasive Species
Inyo NF
To collaborate with Inyo National Forest to identify invasive species and to organize community based work parties to begin eradicating the plants from the Mono Basin. This project will also develop a Mono Basin Invasive Species Management Plan.
www.monolake.org

Sanhedrin Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (CA)
Vegetation Management on the 2001 Lake Pillsbury Fire Site
Mendocino NF
To inventory the distribution of populations of the rare native Marin Checkerbloom plant and non-native Tansy Ragwort for the purpose of informing National Forest management plans. Further, a pilot project will be conducted to evaluate management strategies for Tansy Ragwort.

The Watershed Research and Training Center (CA)
The Post Mountain Stewardship Project: Restoring the Land and Serving the People
Trinity NF
To provide restoration treatments and fuels reduction on a 1,000-acre area strategic to the community wildfire protection plan.
www.thewatershedcenter.org

Northwest Ecosystem Alliance (WA)
Winter Recreation Collaborative Group
Colville NF
To address problems associated with unmanaged recreation and habitat fragmentation on the Colville National Forest by engaging stakeholders with diverse perspectives in a collaborative process to develop agreements regarding winder recreational use.
www.ecosystem.org

Okanogan Communities Development Council (WA)
Methow Valley Cost Share Incentive Program
Okanogan NF
To provide financial support and professional expertise to landowners adjacent to Forest Service land at high risk for fire to implement fuels reduction and forest restoration projects on their lands.
www.okanogancdc.com

Cascade Land Conservancy (WA)
Middle Fork Snoqualmie Watershed - Invasive Weed Project
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie NF
To control invasive plants throughout the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River watershed. This project will survey and remove invasive plants, where appropriate replant with native species, and establish volunteer teams for long-term monitoring.
www.cascadeland.org

Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (WA)
Cle Elum River Floodplain Restoration: Cooper Bridge
Okanogan and Wenatchee NF
To restore and protect valuable fish habitat, aquatic, riparian and floodplain functions on 270 riparian acres along the Cooper and Cle Elum Rivers. On the ground restoration work will include constructing high-quality campsites, barring vehicular access to sensitive areas, delineating parking sites, loosening compacted soils and restoring native plant communities.
www.midcolumbiarfeg.com

Mt. Adams Resource Stewards (WA)
Small Wood Utilization Initiative
Gifford Pinchot NF
To continue a project initiated with a CAP grant that supported early efforts to identify opportunities for rural communities to work with by-products of forest restoration and fuels reduction projects.

The Northeast Washington Community Forestry Coalition (WA)
Stevens Countywide Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Colville NF
To create a community wildfire protection plan for all of the Stevens County wildland urban interface within the Colville National Forest.
www.newcommunityforestry.org

Friends of the Metolius (OR)
Collaborative Soil Monitoring}
Deschutes NF
To conduct collaborative soil quality monitoring using volunteers following small tree mechanized harvesting.

Northwest Youth Corps (OR)
Oregon Forest Health Enhancement Project
Willamette, Rogue River and Umpqua NF
To address fire and fuel, and invasive species threats to three Oregon National Forests through noxious weed removal and reduction of fuels involving 60 – 80 NYC teenagers.
www.northwestyouthcorps.org

Oregon Natural Resources Council (OR)
Black Butte Fuels Restoration
Deschutes NF
To protect homes, improve the fire resiliency of an old growth Ponderosa stand and restore a declining Aspen grove through treatment prescriptions for hazardous fuels removal.
www.onrc.org

Caprine Restoration Services (OR)
Economic and Environmental Benefits of Intensive Rotational Grazing
Deschutes NF
To utilize goats in an intensive rotational grazing practice in order to demonstrate both improved efficiency in the reduction of hazard ladder fuel loads and control of noxious weeds. This project has the capacity to reduce the unit costs for hazard fuels and weed control treatments while it also improves forest health.

WildLaw (FL)
Assisting the Forest Service with OHV Solutions in Florida
Apalachicola & Ocala NF
To conduct GIS mapping of user created OHV trails in unrestricted areas. This project will share and compile information to include recommendations for areas requiring rehabilitation and/or closure.
www.wildlaw.org

Ohio University (OH)
Mapping and Base Line Monitoring of Invasive Species at Lake Vesuvius Recreation Area in the Wayne National Forest, Lawrence County, Ohio
Wayne NF
To establish a coalition of organizations to develop a comprehensive weed management plan for Southern Ohio and to educate the community on detection, mapping, monitoring and control of invasive plant species.
www.ohiou.edu

Clemson University (GA, TN, NC)
Determining the Effectiveness of Sasajiscymnus Tsugae in Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Management
Sumter, Nantahala & Chattahoochee NF
To work with members of the Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance to monitor reductions in Hemlock Wooly Adelgid populations from the release of predator beetles in highly-infested areas of the Southern Appalachians.
 www.clemson.edu

The Appalachian Trail Conference (GA, TN, VA, VT, NH)
Citizen Engagement Project
Chattahoochee, Cherokee, Nantahala, Jefferson, George Washington, Green Mountain and White Mountain NF
To conserve natural resources along the Appalachian Trail by recruiting and training an additional 100 citizen volunteers and assessing and mapping 100 miles of trails on forest land in collaboration with volunteers and non-profit partners.
www.appalachiantrail.org

Natural Trails and Waters Coalition (AR, AZ, CA, CO, MT, UT)
Building Capacity to Address Unmanaged Recreation through Collaboration Training
Multiple Sites
To address the threat posed by unmanaged off-road vehicle recreation by building community capacity to structure and participate in collaborative decision making regarding off-road vehicle route designations and area zoning.
www.naturaltrails.org