NRCS has designated a new priority area in Ohio focused on improving and creating northern bobwhite quail habitat.

USDA is investing up to $17 million for conservation partners to help protect and restore critical wetlands through the Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership. Proposals are due August 15.

$4 million in competitive grants is available to support the development of urban agriculture and innovative production projects.

Kenzie Weisenburger, age 6, is helping her grandfather Ron Weisenburger oversee an important NRCS WRE project to convert his old farmland in Putnam County into a wetland, prairie, and wooded area.

Two other Ohio partnership projects received awards focusing on the Western Lake Erie Region.