Easements in Action in North Carolina
To addressing historic loss of agricultural land to protecting vital wetlands, easements have been a crucial tool in conserving these important land uses in North Carolina.
To addressing historic loss of agricultural land to protecting vital wetlands, easements have been a crucial tool in conserving these important land uses in North Carolina.
On March 13, 2024, NRCS announced it will invest about $138 million of financial assistance from the Inflation Reduction Act in 138 new climate-smart conservation easements, through which farmers and ranchers are conserving wetlands, grasslands and prime farmlands.
NRCS New York announces February 9, 2024, as the second application deadline for Fiscal Year 2024 funding through the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) – Agricultural Land Easements (ALE) and Wetland Reserve Easements (WRE)
Rhode Island NRCS announces a second application sign up period for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). ACEP helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlands or protect farmland and ranchland through conservation easements.
NRCS obligated a record $85.8 million in conservation practice funding to Iowa farmers in fiscal year 2023, through 1,628 conservation program contracts that will help treat natural resource concerns such as soil erosion and water quality on 386,736 acres.
NRCS in Rhode Island is still accepting applications for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). ACEP helps landowners, land trusts, and other entities protect, restore, and enhance wetlands or protect farmland and ranchland through conservation easements.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). The application deadline is January 5, 2024.
While the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) accepts easement applications on a continuous basis, applications for the 2024 fiscal year Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) funding consideration must be submitted to NRCS by December 8, 2023.
A unique partnership between USDA and USACE provides top-notch, valuable service through the through Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) Wetland Reserve Easements (WRE) and has allowed treatment of invasive, exotic vegetation on tens-of-thousands of WRE acres in the state.
Private landowners, tribes, land trusts and other groups wanting to restore and protect critical wetlands and protect agricultural lands and grasslands through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) have until November 30, 2023