The AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence conducted a Best Practices in Stewardship competition in 2003 and received 75 entries from 32 states, plus the District of Columbia. Entries were received in three categories demonstrating three levels of stewardship: project, program, and institutional. The overall winners for each category were the following:

• Florida Key Deer Project [PDF 31kb] - Project winner
• Colorado Short Grass Prairie Program [PDF 28kb] - Program Winner
• North Carolina Environmental Leadership [PDF 44kb] - Institutional Winner
• Best Practices in Environmental Stewardship full report [PDF 4.79mb]

Institutional Entries:

• AZ (interagency)
• CO (TERC)
• FL (EDTM)
• LA (NEPA Manual)
• MD (Beyond the Pavement)
• MN (Blowing Snow)
• NC (Environmental Leadership)
• NH (Chocoura Lake)
• OR (Integrating Environmental Compliance)
• UT (Implementing CSS)
• WA (ErosionControl)

Program Entries:

• AZ (Environmental Planning Group)
• CO (East Plum Creek)
• CO (I-25)
• CO (Short Grass)
• GA (Tilling the Earth)
• IL (COSIM)
• IL (Project Monitoring)
• MD (NPDES Program)
• ME (Stormwater)
• MI (Aesthetic Project)
• MN (Great River)
• MN (Aesthetic Design)
• MN (Historic Roadsides)
• MN (Living Snow Fence)
• MN (Roadside Plants)
• NM (Environmental Oversight)
• NC (Ecosystem Enhancement)
• NC (Environmental Permit)
• NC (Impact Guidance)
• NC (River Basin)
• OH (MOU Stream Crossing)
• OH (Scenic River)
• OH (Environmental Prequalifications)
• OH (Programmatic Agreement)
• OH (Programmatic Categorical Exclusions)
• SC (Environmental Management Program)
• TN (Environmental Compliance)
• TX (Drive Clean)
• TX (PAO Liaison)
• TX (Green Ribbon)
• VT (wildlife Crossing)
• VA (Roanoke Clean Air)
• WI (System Planning)

Project Entries:

• CT (Cantebury)
• FL (US 1 Deer Crossing)
• IL (I-80)
• IN (Southwestern Indiana GIS)
• Joint DC-MD-VA (Woodrow Wilson Bridge)
• KY (Crossing Pine Mountain)
• KY (Cemetery Road)
• LA (LA 1 Improvement)
• MD (US 113/US 50)
• MD (Streetscape)
• MA (Route 146)
• MI ((M-43)
• MN (Hwy. 38)
• MN (Water Resources)
• MS (MS 463)
• MS (I-69)
• MO (Triangle)
• MO (Cobblestone)
• MO (US Rte. 36)
• NJ (Route 57)
• NJ (Route 70)
• NJ (Duck Island)
• NM (US 70)
• NY (Rte. 145 Fishing)
• NY (River Street)
• OH (Archeological Data)
• OH (Coonpath)
• OH Geographic Information System)
• TX (Los Tomates)
• UT (Bridge over Virgin River)
• WI (Mukwonago Pass)
  
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