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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 |
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From the amended document:
This handbook provides CRP policies and instructions to FSA State and County Offices and
NRCS Regional, State, Area, and Field Offices for:
adhering to general provisions and carrying out Agency responsibilities; maintaining useful life easements; approving CRP-I 's; making annual rental payments; performing other CRP activities; CIS policies.
These latest amendments to the 2-CRP Handbook are about seven megabytes in size, in PDF format, available here:
 USDA Agricultural Resource Conservation Program 2-CRP (Revision 4) 6.77 Mb
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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
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Friday, 29 May 2009 |
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The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) is a voluntary program that offers financial incentives to farmers to restore riparian habitat and preclude agricultural activities in those buffers during the contract duration (10 or 15 years). Implementation monitoring of CREP tracks how much has been done, such as acres treated, stream miles restored, number of contracts, feet of fencing installed, and number of plants planted. Effectiveness monitoring assesses whether the project was successful, i.e. did the contract result in a successful riparian buffer in terms of plant growth, survival, diversity, percent shade, bank erosion, and non-native plant species control. The Washington State Conservation Commission's 2008 Annual CREP Effectiveness Monitoring Report is now available for download online, click the read more link below for more information.
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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
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Below are links to three different files that describe the stream miles that are currently eligible for the forested buffer practice under CREP. The zipped file contains the statewide shapefiles. The Excel spreadsheet is a summary of the segments and lengths, and the htm describes the metadata. Please note that there are three views of the stream data in the spreadsheet. Click the read more link for more information or to download the available files.
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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
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These buffers improve water quality by increasing shade and decreasing bank erosion. They also contribute to the food web (leaf litter), wildlife habitat, and in the future will contribute large wood as fish habitat to the stream.
Our Library contains CREP documents useful to conservation districts
and Conservation Commission program reports.
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