PR-CREP


Platte-Republican CREP


This page describes a new option available for landowners that is available through
funding from Quail Forever, the Nebraska Environmental Trust and the Nebraska Game &
Parks Commission. This new habitat program offers more incentives to establish highly
diverse wildlife mixtures on cropland as well as incentives for public access.


Eligible Counties for this Program
Banner, Buffalo, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawson, Deuel, Dundy, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas,
Garden, Gosper, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Kearney, Keith, Kimball, Lincoln, Morrill,
Nuckolls, Perkins, Phelps, Red Willow, Scotts Blulff, Sioux, and Webster

Please Note - the focus of this grant is to provide incentives for better wildlife habitat and
provide public access on projects in this area.


Available Incentives


  1. Up to $5 per acre/year (for up to 5 years) for providing public access. Eligible lands includethose enrolled in a conservation program that restores or manages wildlife habitat on
    cropland. Examples include: CREP, CRP, CCRP, EQIP or other conservation
    programs. By “other conservation program”, this can include almost any type of
    agreement that is put together with the landowner. Examples can include local PF &
    QF chapter projects, NRD projects, etc.

  2. $1 per acre/year (for up to 5 years) for providing public access on incidental lands. Eligible
    lands would include those that are adjacent to or part of the conservation program
    lands listed in option #1 above.

  3. $25 per acre one-time incentive or “bonus” payment for enrolling new cropland acres in a
    conservation program. The incentive payment would be to plant a highly diverse
    mixture of grasses, legumes and forbs that are designed by a wildlife biologist to
    maximize the wildlife benefits on the enrolled land. This practice needs to be applied
    to cropland that is converted to wildlife habitat and public access is not required.

The highly diverse mixtures approved for incentive payments will be those that are
designed to include a PLS seeding rate that is >50% forbs, contains >20 species and
generally follows the guidelines associated with the CP38 program and mixtures in the
Pheasants Forever Habitat Guide and Seed Mixture Catalogue.



Initial Areas of Opportunity


  1. CP38 - SAFE projects: offering additional incentives to get landowners to enroll and then
    plant the most highly diverse wildlife mixtures possible.

  2. Platte Republican CREP: encouraging additional enrollment in the program with these
    additional cost share incentives.

  3. Enrolling existing CRP into new CRP-MAP contracts: this is a new, additional pool of
    funding that can be used to enroll CRP-MAP contracts.

  4. Enrolling EQIP projects into public access: a new offer for landowners in the eligible
    counties to consider public access on their lands.

  5. Enroll public access on other Conservation Programs lands: Examples can now
    include Corners For Wildlife projects, NRD projects, Wheat Stubble program, etc.




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For more information contact Quail Forever at 308-754-5339

Platte-Republican CREP Handout - pdf