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Show fj " Deborah S. Wilkins Acting District Ranger chosen for Flaming Gorge District Deborah S. Wilkins will begin as the acting Flaming Gorge District ranger March 6. She currently works for the Newport and Sullivan Lake Ranger districts on the Colville National Forest in Newport, Wash., as a resource assistant for Recreation, Engineering, Lands, and Minerals. Wilkins has been with the Forest Service for 15 years. Her background back-ground includes wilderness management, man-agement, volunteer program coordinator, coordi-nator, and special use permits. She was also instrumental in producing a strategy for recreation management. manage-ment. One of her main focuses is collaboration, which involves working work-ing with communities and local governments. "I'm thrilled about this opportunity opportu-nity to share my partnership experiences experi-ences and skills with the Flaming Gorge communities," Wilkins said. 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"I was pleased to report to the President that thanks to the unprecedented unprece-dented commitment to cooperative conservation in his budget, the department has been able to empower states, tribes, local communities, com-munities, private landowners, and others to undertake innovative conservation con-servation projects to restore our land and recover its wildlife," Norton said. The Landowner Incentive Program supports the administration's administra-tion's overall Cooperative Conservation Initiative, which includes a number of conservation grant programs to assist states, tribes, conservation organizations, private landowners and others in conservation projects and programs. The program is based on the highly high-ly successful Texas Landowner Incentive Program developed by then-Governor Bush in 1997 to involve landowners in voluntary efforts to benefit rare species in several sev-eral Texas counties. 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"From restoring streams and riparian ripar-ian areas to bringing back natural prairies, we are empowering landowners to undertake conservation conserva-tion projects that they otherwise could not afford while restoring habitat on private lands that are vital to threatened, endangered and other imperiled species," Norton said. "These funds help Interior extend a hand to work with the nation's many citizen stewards, who often are the nation's most effective conservationists." conserva-tionists." LIP projects involve a variety of conservation activities and management manage-ment actions. They include removing remov-ing exotic plants, adapting grazing practices to enhance vital riparian habitat, providing instream or streambank structural improvements to benefit aquatic species, closing roads to protect habitat, and encouraging encour-aging conservation easements. 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Landowners will also manage 950 acres of critical, permanent wetlands wet-lands to meet the needs of at-risk wetland species and provide an additional 2,500 acres of post harvest har-vest flooded cropland directly beneficial bene-ficial to fall migrant shorcbirds and breeding waterbirds. " In Maine, a $1.3 million grant w ill support implementation of the state's ongoing, broad-scale habitat conservation planning effort, Beginning with Habitat. The funds will help landowners conserve habitats habi-tats to benefit species at risk. It will also allow the state to provide technical tech-nical and financial assistance to landowners for habitat protection and restoration. " In Nevada, a $364,500 grant will help the state establish a program to assist landowners in conserving imperiled species through sagebrush and riparian habitat management, conservation and restoration. A state-by-state list for the Landowner Incentive Program grants follows. 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