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By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Monira Rifaat strolls along a rocky stream bed on the edge of her cattle farm near Sperryville, chatting about how plant life along the banks is rebounding since she has fenced her cattle out of the area.
She also points uphill from the stream to a recovering wetland, which has been planted with native grasses and trees.
Rifaat took the initiative to install these practices, but she also received a helping hand with funding from the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.
The program, CREP for short, has assisted hundreds of Virginia farmers in paying for measures that protect the Commonwealth’s waters and wildlife. But the program may be approaching its final year as it is scheduled to expire at the end of 2007 and there are currently no plans to renew it.
CREP weis started in 2000 to improve Virginia’s water quality and wildlife habitat through financial incentives, cost shares and rental payments for farm
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