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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 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:
Conservation easement boundary sign. In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified land conservation organization called a "land trust", or a governmental (municipal, county, state or federal) entity to constrain, as to a specified land area, the exercise of rights ...
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).
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 ...
A herd of dairy cows graze Tuesday afternoon in a bucolic Ashland County field. Of the farms in Ohio, 97% are still family operated. Higgins said his office at the farm bureau federation has ...
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 ...
"Ohio EPA has canceled the public meeting scheduled for March 20, 2024, at the Licking County Library," the EPA said in a brief statement in a news release dated Thursday and posted on its website.