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The conservation reserve program has helped the number of pine plantings in the South to raise to record levels.
Since CRP’s inception in 1985, farmers and other private forest owners have used the program to reforest thousands of acres. Eligible landowners can get partial payment for the cost of tree planting and annual payments for reforestation on highly erodible croplands.
The erosion criteria required to qualify croplands has limited participants to upland sites, where efforts to control erosion favor pine planting. Recently, a new provision was added to encourage even more forest landowners to take part in CRP. This provision is aimed at enhancing water quality and improving wildlife habitat by encouraging owners to reforest their'wetlands.
Called CP-14, the new provision provides for tree planting on fields or areas threatened by scour erosion, caused by out-of-bank flows, or cropped wetland areas, as determined by the Soil Conservation Service. CP-14 provides for payments to participants for part of the cost of tree planting. Also, annual payments are made to owners who maintain their established stand of trees to meet the provision’s objectives.
The tree must serve to improve water quality and restore and en
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