Goals, Qualifications & Specifications:
Encourage landowners to implement management practices to conserve soil, water, and related natural resources on working lands.
- Practice payments offset the costs associated with the installation, cost of materials, and/or income lost with adoption of conservation measures.
- Payments to a person or entity are limited to $300,000 during any 6-year period.
- Operators of non-industrial, private forest land must have an interest in the land and have control of it for the life of the contract.
- Contracts can be up to 10 years in duration.
Additional information and applications are available from your local Natural Resource Conservation Service office.
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