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WILDLIFE HABITAT INCENTIVES PROGRAM (WHIP)

United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service. WILDLIFE HABITAT INCENTIVES PROGRAM (WHIP). WHIP Key Points. Improves and protects wildlife habitat on private and Tribal lands Provides technical and financial assistance under 5-year to 15-year agreements.

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WILDLIFE HABITAT INCENTIVES PROGRAM (WHIP)

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  1. United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service WILDLIFE HABITAT INCENTIVES PROGRAM (WHIP)

  2. WHIP Key Points • Improves and protects wildlife habitat on private and Tribal lands • Provides technical and financial assistance under 5-year to 15-year agreements

  3. WHIP Key Points • Wildlife habitat resource needs identified in the state WHIP plan. • Developed by State Conservationist with Kansas State Technical Committees’ advice.

  4. WHIP Key Points • Kansas WHIP plan • Targeted Species • Lesser/Greater Prairie Chicken • Bobwhite Quail • Ring-Necked Pheasant

  5. WHIP Key Points • Application ranking factors consider environmental benefits and cost effectiveness • A person may participate in WHIP if he or she owns or leases land or can provide proof of control of the land for the agreement period

  6. WHIP Key Points • KDWP provides WHIP technical support • Announce WHIP • Service applications • Develop plans and contracts • Apply practices and systems

  7. WHIP Key Points • Essential plant and animal habitat agreements • Target species: greater and lesser prairie chickens • Target treatment: brush control and grazing lands management • Fifteen year agreements • 100 percent cost-share on brush control and grazing lands management

  8. WHIP Key Points EQIP, WRP and WHIP have open sign-ups, and applications are accepted continuously

  9. WHIP Key Points • National Accomplishments Through 2002 • Contracts: 12,500 • Acres: 1.9 million • Kansas Accomplishments Through 2003 • Contracts: 435 • Acres: 70,912

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