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Financial Incentives for Private Forestland Owners
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
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.
 

Incentive Programs

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Afforestation
Bark Beetle Mitigation
Conservation Prgrms
Forest Stwrdshp (FSP)
Forest Trust (FRT)
Healthy Forests Resrv
Noxious Weed Control
Watershed Enhncmnt
Wetlands Resrv (WRP)
Wildlife Habitat (WHIP)
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Page updated: January 23, 2012