AR-News: (KY) Natural Resources Conservation Service accepting apps.

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The Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications for the 
Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program. Landowners may apply at any time; 
however, applications received by Jan. 9 will be considered for the 2004 program 
year. 
Applications received after that date are held until the next evaluation 
period. 
WHIP provides land users an opportunity to improve wildlife habitat on land 
that they own or control by implementing eligible practices at a 75 percent 
cost-share rate. 
In Kentucky, the primary focus of WHIP is to restore and create early 
succesional habitats. Planting native grasses, shrubs, and wildlife-friendly 
introduced grasses are eligible practices under Kentucky's 2004 WHIP cost-share 
assistance. 
Other eligible practices include filter strips; forest stand improvement; 
field borders; tree plantings; riparian buffers; wildlife watering holes; and 
fencing to exclude livestock from streams, woodland, wetlands, and wildlife 
lands. 
Applications are evaluated and ranked to determine which projects provide the 
most beneficial habitats. To apply, contact your local NRCS office or 
biologists with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
Copyright The Advocate-Messenger 2003 






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legitimate hope of survival." -Wendell Berry 
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