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The Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides assistance to non-industrial private forest owners by encouraging and enabling them for long-term forest management. The program provides landowners with information on development and multi-source planning in an effort to manage private forests for goods and services.
An expansion of the Conservation Security Program gives rise to the new Conservation Stewardship Program which is a voluntary program that influences producers to address resource concerns. This involved improving, maintaining, and managing conservation practices that already exist and also taking part in extra activities. [14]
The program was administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2008 Congress enacted the 2008 Farm Bill and replaced the Conservation Security Program with the similarly named, but differently structured Conservation Stewardship Program. [1] [2]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Ohio Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting applications from landowners interested in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) to build ...
The Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade (FACT) Act of 1990 — P.L. 101-624 (November 28, 1990) was a 5-year omnibus farm bill that passed Congress and was signed into law. This bill, also known as the 1990 farm bill , continued to move agriculture in a market-oriented direction by freezing target prices and allowing more planting ...
Environmental stewardship (or planetary stewardship) refers to the responsible use and protection of the natural environment through active participation in conservation efforts and sustainable practices by individuals, small groups, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and other collective networks.
NSAC has been involved in the creation of federal programs, including: Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), [8] Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), and Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI) as part of the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS); Value-Added Producer Grants Program (VAPG) as part of USDA Office of Rural ...
The 1960s saw major amendments to the "Air Pollution Control Act" as well as the beginnings of a statewide land conservation program with the enactment of the "New Jersey Green Acres Land Acquisition Act of 1961." [6] This act devoted $60 million to land preservation and established the Green Acres program in the state. The 1960s also saw the ...