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Mule Deer Foundation to hire Dakota coordinator

The Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) was awarded a $270,000 grant to hire a habitat partnership coordinator in the Dakota Grasslands region through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Northern Great Plains program.

The new full time staff position within MDF will work with the Bureau of Land Management, North Dakota Game and Fish and other partnering agencies in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. The partners will match the grant funding through in-kind volunteer work, donated use of heavy equipment and other existing habitat restoration funds. With the MDF, the partners will increase opportunities to implement conservation projects to restore habitat for mule deer, sage grouse, pronghorn and other wildlife in the Dakota Grasslands project area of western North Dakota, eastern Montana, northwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming.

Priority projects will include grassland habitat restoration through conifer removal, cheatgrass control/eradication, rangeland fire restoration, grazing management and fencing modifications. Riparian restoration activities will focus on restoring wet meadow or riparian areas through structure placement and habitat improvements.

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