[ODFW-News] Application period opens June 1 for Landowner Incentive Program grants

[ODFW News]

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife 	
Contact: 	Anne Pressentin Young (503) 947-6020	
Internet: www.dfw.state.or.us  Fax: (503) 947-6009
	

For Immediate Release	Thursday, May 20, 2004

Application period opens June 1 for Landowner Incentive Program grants

SALEM - Applications will be accepted June 1 - Aug. 31 for Landowner
Incentive Program grants to enhance, protect or restore habitats that
benefit "species-at-risk" on privately owned lands, the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today.

Successful grant applications will be funded through Congressional
allocations for the nationwide program. Congress is expected to act on
the budget allocation later this year. Oregon received $1.12 million for
the competitive grant program in 2003. Applicants will learn in late
2004 if their projects will receive funds.

Private landowners or groups, such as land conservancies or trusts
working with private landowners are encouraged to submit proposals for
projects that conserve, enhance or restore habitats for rare species.
Example projects include restoring native vegetation, prescribed burns,
grazing management, brush and invasive weed management, removing fish
passage barriers, stream restoration, and purchasing conservation
easements.

In Oregon, "species-at-risk" include fish or wildlife species that
are federally or state listed as threatened or endangered under the
Endangered Species Act, are a candidate for listing as threatened or
endangered under the ESA, or are listed on the State Sensitive Species
List. Species listed as globally critically imperiled, imperiled, rare
or locally threatened on the Oregon Natural Heritage Program's list of
Rare, Threatened and Endangered Plants and Animals of Oregon also are
eligible. Species-at-risk also include plants listed on the Oregon
Department of Agriculture's Wildflowers, and Endangered, Threatened, and
Candidate plant list.

For more information or to obtain an application form and instructions,
visit the Landowner Incentive Program Web page at 
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/LIP/overview.html or contact: 
Nancy Breuner, Eastern Oregon Landowner Incentive Program biologist,
ODFW, 61374 Parrell Road, Bend, OR 97702; 541-388-6363;
Miriam Hulst, Western Oregon Landowner Incentive Program biologist,
ODFW, 7118 Vandenberg Ave, Corvallis, OR 97330; 541-757-4186;
Bruce Campbell, Landowner Incentive Program coordinator, ODFW, 3406
Cherry Ave. N.E., Salem, OR 97303; 541-947-6300.


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