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Quarterly Summary

Resources

Multiflora Rose/Autumn Olive funding for

  • Pasture transects.
  • Determine brush acres.
  • Determine 90% kill goal achievement.
  • Follow up prescribed grazing plan.

Appalachian Grazing Conference

  • Thank you!
  • Almost 250 attended.
  • Beef, horse, and goat production covered.
Farm Bill
  • EQIP, 330 applications approved,
    -Value of $5,938,222.
  • WHIP, 59 applications approved,
    -Value of $635,751.
  • AMA, no new funding.
  • WRP, need applications.
  • Conservation Security Program (CSP).
    -No 2007 signup.
    -Existing contracts payments.
  • FRPP
    -Informational meetings.
    -30th agricultural conservation easement.
    -Approximately $1.64 to match resources.
    -16 county boards set up.
  • GRP
    -Finalizing FY 2005 applications.
    -Existing review appraiser retired.
    -Working with the USACE to utilize their services to conduct appraisal reviews.
    -Negotiating for title search and easement closing services with local attorneys.
    -Advertising for surveying services and appraisal services to close easements quicker.
    -Delegated the authority to acquire easements.
Water Resources
  • Construction is proceeding on, Elkwater Fork, Little Whitestick Creek and Deckers Creek
Soil
  • Web Soil Survey
    Monroe County added
Conservation Innovation Grants
  • Three Active Projects
    • Controlling woody invasive weed species
    • Planning and development of a Board of Trade for Water Quality Credits in the Potomac Basin
    • Biofuels gassifier project attached to a poultry house to generate heat

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