Shallow Water Areas for Wildlife
CP9

Farmers & ranchers who sign up for continuous CRP may use a variety of NRCS approved practices depending on the resource need. See Possible Practices.

Description: Managing shallow water on agricultural lands and moist soil areas for wildlife habitat.

Benefits: To provide open water areas on agricultural
fields and moist soil areas to facilitate waterfowl resting and feeding and to provide habitat for reptiles and amphibians and other aquatic species which serve as important prey species for waterfowl, raptors, herons, and other wildlife.

Possible Funding: Continuous CRP

Fact Sheet - Shallow Water Areas for Wildlife

Possible Practices: Early Successional Habitat (647), Filter Strips (393), Prescribed Burning (338), Shallow Water Areas-Wildlife (646), Tree/Shrub Establishment (612), Tree/Shrub Site Preparation (490), Water Control Structure (587), Upland Wildlife Habitat Management (645)

Filter Strips
CP21

Farmers & ranchers who sign up for continuous CRP may use a variety of NRCS approved practices depending on the resource need. See Possible Practices.

Description: A strip or area of herbaceous vegetation situated between cropland, grazing land, or disturbed land (including forestland) and environmentally sensitive areas.

Benefits: To reduce sediment, particulate organics, and sediment adsorbed contaminant loadings in runoff, to reduce dissolved contaminant loadings in runoff, to serve as Zone 3 of a Riparian Forest Buffer (391), to reduce sediment, particulate organics, and sediment adsorbed contaminant loadings in surface irrigation tailwater, to restore, create or enhance herbaceous habitat for wildlife and beneficial insects, and to maintain or enhance watershed functions and values.

Possible Funding: Continuous CRP

Possible Practices: Early Successional Habitat (647), Filter Strips (393), Firebreaks (394), Prescribed Burning (338), Upland Wildlife Habitat Management (645)

Riparian Forest Buffers
CP22

Farmers & ranchers who sign up for continuous CRP may use a variety of NRCS approved practices depending on the resource need. See Possible Practices.

Description: An area of predominantly trees and/or shrubs located adjacent to and up-gradient from watercourses or water bodies.

Benefits: Create shade to lower or maintain water temperatures to improve habitat for aquatic organisms, create or improve riparian habitat and provide a source of detritus and large woody debris, reduce excess amounts of sediment, organic material, nutrients, and pesticides in surface runoff and reduce excess nutrients and other chemicals in shallow ground water flow, reduce pesticide drift entering the water body, restore riparian plant communities, and increase carbon storage in plant biomass and soils.

Possible Funding: Continuous CRP

Fact Sheet Riparian Forest Buffer

Possible Practices: Early Successional Habitat (647), Fence (382), Pond (378), Riparian Forest Buffer (391), Riparian Herbaceous Cover (390), Tree/Shrub Establishment (612), Tree/Shrub Site Preparation (490), Upland Wildlife Habitat Management (645)

Wetland Restoration
CP23

Farmers & ranchers who sign up for continuous CRP may use a variety of NRCS approved practices depending on the resource need. See Possible Practices.

Description: A rehabilitation of a drained or degraded wetland where the soils, hydrology, vegetative community, and biological habitat are returned to the natural condition to the extent practicable.

Benefits: To restore hydric soil conditions, hydrologic conditions, hydrophytic plant communities, and wetland functions that occurred on the disturbed wetland site prior to modification to the extent practicable.

Possible Funding: Continuous CRP

Fact Sheet - Wetland restoration

Possible Practices: Early Successional Habitat (647), Firebreak (394), Prescribed Burn (338), Shallow Water Areas-Wildlife (646), Tree/Shrub Establishment (612), Tree/Shrub Site Preparation (490), Water Control Structure (587), Wetland Enhancement (659), Wetland Restoration (657), Wetland Wildlife Habitat Management (644)

Wetland Restoration -
Non Floodplain
CP23A

Farmers & ranchers who sign up for continuous CRP may use a variety of NRCS approved practices depending on the resource need. See Possible Practices.

Possible Funding: Continuous CRP

Possible Practices: Early Successional Habitat (647), Firebreak (394), Prescribed Burn (338), Tree/Shrub Establishment (612), Tree/Shrub Site Preparation (490), Water Control Structure (587), Wetland Enhancement (659), Wetland Restoration (657), Wetland Wildlife Habitat Management (644)

Marginal Pastureland Wildlife Habitat Buffers
CP29

Farmers & ranchers who sign up for continuous CRP may use a variety of NRCS approved practices depending on the resource need. See Possible Practices.

Description: Plantings of trees and shrubs that are a source of food, nesting cover and shelter for many wildlife species. Pastureland adjacent or parallel to rivers, creeks, seasonal streams, other permanent water bodies, such as lakes & ponds that provide water throughout most of the year. 20-120 feet

Benefits: Restore land or aquatic habitats degraded by
human activity, provide habitat for rare and declining
wildlife species by restoring and conserving native plant communities, increase native plant community diversity, and management of unique or declining native
habitats.

Possible Funding:

Bottomland Timberland Establishment on Wetlands
CP31

Farmers & ranchers who sign up for continuous CRP may use a variety of NRCS approved practices depending on the resource need. See Possible Practices.

Description: Growing bottomland hardwood trees or adapted shrubs that will provide multipurpose forest and wildlife benefits on suitable lands to improve the quality of water, control soil erosion, and enhance wildlife habitat.

Benefits: To Control sheet, rill, scour, and other erosion; to reduce water, air, or land pollution; to restore and enhance the natural and beneficial functions of wetlands; to promote carbon equestration; and to restore and connect wildlife habitat.

Possible Funding: Continuous CRP

Fact Sheet: Bottomland Timber Establishment on Wetlands Initiative

Possible Practices: Firebreak (394), Tree/Shrub Establishment (612), Tree/Shrub Site Preparation (490), Wetland Enhancement (659)

Wildlife Habitat for Upland Birds CP33

Farmers & ranchers who sign up for continuous CRP may use a variety of NRCS approved practices depending on the resource need. See Possible Practices.

Description: Habitat buffers for upland birds are strips of vegetation established around the edges of crop fields to provide habitat for bobwhite quail, ring-neck pheasant, and other upland birds. 

Benefits: Buffers provide nesting, brood rearing and escape cover, serve as travel corridors between areas of suitable habitat, may provide habitat for other animals and may limit sediment, nutrients, pesticides and other contaminants from entering streams and other water bodies.

Possible Funding: Continuous CRP

Fact Sheets:

Possible Practices: Early Successional Habitat (647), Firebreak (394), Prescribed Burning (338), Restoration or Management of Declining Habitat (643), Tree/Shrub Establishment (612), Tree/Shrub Site Preparation (490), Upland Wildlife Habitat Management (645)

Success Stories: Restoration project improves quail population, habitat