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Helping address watershed needs

Environmental Defense Fund’s Western Lake Erie Basin Project: Leveraging CREP and EQIP to improve water quality & restore wildlife habitat. Helping address watershed needs. Maumee and Lake Erie Flooding concerns Water quality concerns. CREP practices. Riparian Forested Buffer. Wetland.

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Helping address watershed needs

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  1. Environmental Defense Fund’sWestern Lake Erie Basin Project: Leveraging CREP and EQIP to improve water quality & restore wildlife habitat

  2. Helping address watershed needs • Maumee and Lake Erie • Flooding concerns • Water quality concerns

  3. CREP practices Riparian Forested Buffer Wetland Yield monitor shows reduced yield along ditch. These are “break even” acres at best.

  4. Commodity prices impact on enrollments

  5. Challenge: loss of CRP acres

  6. EQIP partnership • OH EQIP Special Project (EQSP) -- launched in 2006, very popular (250+ applications, funding for 59) • Implementing EQSP plans & working @ county level to leverage general EQIP for advanced practices • Looking ahead -- MI and IN cooperative agreements, spring 2008 • Working w- NRCS to provide more opportunity in OH to enroll in these high priority practices

  7. One on one assistance

  8. Additional outreach tools • Fifteen contracts for outreach or monitoring • Roughly 10,000 contacts made through some 30 small and large events • Media: 3 billboards, ads in 4 papers, 2 Blade articles, one op-ed, several partner newsletters, OFBF newsletter • One on one meetings with decision makers

  9. Getting wetlands into place February 2008: photo is taken looking east from wetland toward woods along escarpment

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