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The Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) was a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers the program with funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation .
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.
Wetland complex, south side of Chase Lake Prairie Project headquarters. The project is an effort to ensure future protection of the region, whereby ranchers and farmers agree to utilize native grasses when planting, rotate cattle regularly to prevent overgrazing, restore wetland environments that have been drained and prevent over hunting and predation from mammals such as the coyote and fox.
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Compensatory mitigation includes measures to restore, create, enhance, and preserve wetlands to offset unavoidable adverse impacts. [12] It is a form of environmental mitigation and can include both on-site (on or adjacent to the site of impacts) and off-site mitigation.
Ryan Jones, the area engineer with the SWCD, said the area of restored wetland was previously filled with sedimentation, and water flowed over it and also caused water to flow in other directions ...
When altered flow regimes have impacted riparian zone health, re-establishing natural streamflow may be the best solution to effectively restore riparian ecosystems. [2] The complete removal of dams and flow-altering structures may be required to fully restore historic conditions, but this is not always realistic or feasible.