NRCS prescribed burns revive habitat
Statewide plan, five-year contract center on Wetlands Reserve Program easements.
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Time for Wisconsin to support a ruffed grouse conservation stamp
Many wildlife species depend on young forests, and work in that direction could be funded through such a stamp.
Iowa DNR: Landowners, hunters, bird-watchers realize Big Marsh’s benefits
Parkersburg, Iowa — The Big Marsh Wildlife Area is a working example of the benefits of taking wet farmland where crops struggle 70 percent of the time and creating a large public area with expansive wetlands and prairies attractive to waterfowl and waterfowl hunters, snakes, shorebirds, pheasants, deer, turkeys and even endangered wood turtles. This
New grants support waterfowl on working lands
Eight proposals from DU and partners will provide $32.8 million to enhance water resources, grasslands, rice lands and wetlands for waterfowl.
USDA invests $225 million in conservation partnerships
Addition of 88 projects brings federal, partner investment to over $2 billion since 2014.
