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Update: Application deadline extended until August 29
EAST LANSING, June 5, 2008 – Financial assistance is available to landowners
interested in improving habitat for wildlife on their land.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has 2008 funding
available for habitat improvement through its wildlife habitat incentives
program. Funds are available this year for applications received before August
1. The funds cover about 75 percent of the typical costs for practices to
improve wildlife habitat such as planting native grasses and trees.
The recent passage of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 provided
additional current year funding for conservation programs. In Michigan, an
additional $475,000 in 2008 funding for the wildlife habitat incentives program
is anticipated. With a short backlog of existing applications, new applications
are being sought by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which
administers the program.
Applicants for the wildlife habitat incentives program do
not have to be engaged in agriculture. Homeowners with large plots of land,
owners of recreational land and other rural landowners who want to improve
wildlife habitat on their property are eligible to apply. Other common habitat
improvement practices funded through the program include invasive plant species
control, streambank improvements and establishing windbreaks.
Landowners interested in applying for the wildlife habitat
incentives program should contact their local USDA Service Center or get more
information online at www.mi.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/whip.html.
NRCS-Michigan Wildlife Habitat Incentives
Program
Web page
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