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nutrients before they reach a steam. Another goal is to stabilize stream banks and improve wildlife habitant. The same aims apply to wetlands.
You would have full use of your CREP-buffered areas for hunting, recreation, walking or hiking trails, fishing, etc. Wildlife will be able to travel the lengths of streams and rivers within a forest-like habitat and this might bring in species that lack such an environment now. Potential timber, fruit, and nut revenues might accrue.
Erosion would be controlled and there would be less likelihood of devastating flooding on your cropland or grazing areas.
Another plus, a major one, is that forested riparian buffers, with high-value hardwood trees in place, can increase you property values, and they are good-looking to boot.
The CREP program takes one to two months to get in place. Call Joe Thompson at 825-4200, extension 108, at the Culpeper office of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service for details and an on-site visit. As noted in the beginning, this is a first-come, first-serve program.
Two further incentives are in the negotiation stage. First, instead of $85 per acre per year, the rate would be $95 per acre per year. Second, there might be a 40 percent incentive payment beyond the costs of implementing a CREP-buffered area. Spend $72,000 for the buffer, you will be paid $100,800 and thus gain $28,800 clear profit.
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