Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)

The CRP program maybe used for field and farmstead tree plantings. Cost share reimbursement for this program is 50% for practice application and an additional 40% is paid out on a one time payment for a practice and sign up incentive payment. The CRP program would also pay an annual rental rate for those acres involved in the tree planting based on the soil types.
Text Box: Click here for the HANDPLANT ORDER FORM

FIREWISE Program

The North Dakota Forest Service also has a FIREWISE program. This is designed to protect rural homeowners and communities from wildfires. This program may offer up to 75% cost share for the tree plantings as well.

Text Box: For more information about Trees and Planting Programs, contact Scott Kelsch. Text Box: Click on the following topics to get more information about them: Working Trees for Livestock Vegetative Firebreaks Working Trees for Wildlife CoverLocks Web Soil Survey Windbreak Renovation Conservation Trees for North Dakota Commemorates COMPLETION of Digital Soil Survey Project North Dakota Invasive Species Partnership Project Text Box: Click here to visit the Lincoln Oakes Nursery Website. This is where the Emmons County Soil Text Box: To get your own copy of Living Landscapes in North Dakota, contact the office at

Emmons County

Soil Conservation

“Helping People Help the Land”

If you are interested in planting trees for the 2008 season, contact Scott . There are a couple of program options producers could fall into if you are interested in planting trees.  The hand plant order forms are due by October 1st, 2007, to assure availability for delivery sometime in April.

TREES & PLANTING PROGRAMS

Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP)

The WHIP program is a voluntary program that encourages the creation of high quality wildlife habitats that support wildlife populations. This program provides technical and financial assistance to landowners and others to develop upland, wetland, riparian, and aquatic habitat areas on their property.

Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP)

The EQIP program is a voluntary program that provides assistance to farmers and ranchers who face threats to soil, water, air, and related natural resources on their land. Assistance is provided to agriculture producers in a manner that will promote agriculture production and environmental quality as compatible goals, optimize environmental benefits, and help farmers and ranchers meet environmental requirements.

Information About Plants

 

·National Plant Materials Program
Plant Material Centers provide application-oriented technology including technical publications, fact sheets, conservation plant releases of conservation plants, conservation plant identification, tools for conducting plant materials work and land restoration, glossary of plant materials terms, related websites, an other plant information.

·Bismarck Plant Materials Center
Over the past 50 years, the Bismarck Plant Materials Center has provided plant solutions for the diverse landscapes in North Dakota, South Dakota, and northern Minnesota. The Center offers technical assistance for native landscaping, windbreaks, revegetating saline-alkaline soils, improving productivity of range and pasture lands, enhancing wildlife habitat and wetlands, and enhancing native prairie ecosystems.

·Plants Database
Names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information.