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Aaron Kloss is the Volunteer Fire Assistance Grant (VFA) Program Coordinator for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Division of Forestry.

PlantWise, LLC is a business dedicated to creating, restoring, and interpreting native ecosystems and plant communities throughout Michigan and Ohio.

Since 2000, David Borneman, LLC has been providing experienced ecological restoration services throughout the Midwest, specializing in controlled burns.

We are a non-profit Christian land conservation organization based in Angola, Indiana. We contract with private and public land owners and other non-profit conservation organizations to restore marshland, sedge meadow, prairie, oak savanna, and open oak woodland communities in northeast Indiana, south central Michigan, and northwest Ohio.

In 2010, a diverse group of the region's resource management leaders formed the Shortleaf Working Group (SWG). This group began to focus regional attention on the extensive and rapid loss of shortleaf pine habitats and the associated values.