Mast Tree Network » Incentive Programs http://www.mast-producing-trees.org Restoring the bounty of North America's native woodlands Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:07:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Conservation Reserve Program http://www.mast-producing-trees.org/2009/12/conservation-reserve-program/ http://www.mast-producing-trees.org/2009/12/conservation-reserve-program/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:32:40 +0000 admin http://www.mast-producing-trees.org/?p=321 The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) offers qualifying landowners technical and financial assistance to convert crop land and certain types of marginal pasture land into riparian buffers, windbreaks, and other plantings designed to improve wildlife habitat, conserve water and soil resources, and other benefits.

The CRP is administered by the Farm Service Agency and technical assistance is provided by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. For more information about eligibility and types of assistance please visit the FSA’s CRP page and the NRCS’s CRP page.

]]> http://www.mast-producing-trees.org/2009/12/conservation-reserve-program/feed/ 0 Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program http://www.mast-producing-trees.org/2009/11/wildlife-habitat-incentives-program/ http://www.mast-producing-trees.org/2009/11/wildlife-habitat-incentives-program/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:51:18 +0000 admin http://www.mast-producing-trees.org/?p=114 Landowners interested in restoring or maintaining wildlife habitat on agricultural land, non-industrial private forest land, and Indian land, such as by planting or improving a stand of mast-producing trees and shrubs for wildlife habitat, may be eligible for technical assistance and cost-sharing (up to 75%) from the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

To learn more about this voluntary program, visit the NRCS’s page on WHIP here.

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