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The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) funds landowners that volunteer their land for wetland development and provides opportunities for landowners participate in the maintenance of the project. The land must meet specific requirement to receive funding and the program is set up for each state in the United States. The Landowner has up to three choices:
A converted wetland is one that has been drained, dredged, filled, leveled, or otherwise altered for the production of an agricultural commodity. [1] The definition is part of The Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Compliance provisions [2] (Swampbuster) introduced in the 1985 Farm Bill (also known as The Food Security Act of 1985).
REYNOLDSBURG - The Ohio Department of Agriculture has announced nine land trusts, seven counties or townships and 25 Soil and Water Conservation Districts will receive funding to help preserve ...
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
"No Net loss" is the United States government's overall policy goal regarding wetlands preservation. The goal of the policy is to balance wetland loss due to economic development with wetlands reclamation, mitigation, and restorations efforts, so that the total acreage of wetlands in the country does not decrease, but remains constant or increases.
"The new reports indicate that a Chinese billionaire bought 200,000 acres of farmland in Oregon, making him the second biggest foreign owner of land in America. We didn't even know about it."
A new wetland restoration project has been completed at Little Portage Wildlife Area in Ottawa County near Port Clinton. H2Ohio clean water project completed at Little Portage Wildlife Area in ...
The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 2101) made this a 2-million-acre (8,100 km 2) national program (with an enrollment limit of 100,000 acres (400 km 2) per state), and made changes in eligibility requirements, such as increasing the maximum size of eligible wetlands from 5 acres (20,000 m 2) to 10 acres (40,000 m 2). [2]