Palouse Watershed Regional Conservation Partnership Has Funds Available For Direct Seed and Riparian Buffers

I’m Susan Allen The Palouse Watershed Regional Conservation Partnership Program has been a model for others around the state and they are seeking land owners and producers to establish voluntary incentive-based conservation practices that enhance producer operations, improve soil and water quality and wildlife habitat. The Partnership cuts a broad swath across our state serving landowners and operators located in parts of Whitman, Adams, Lincoln, and Spokane Counties. Here is Laura Heinse Conservation Partnership Manager

Heinse :We were granted, the Palouse Conservation District a grant from the NRCS called the Regional Conservation Partnership Program, and there are actually several of those in the state right now, ours is moving forward really well. How it works in the next five years we are going to distribute 11 million dollars across the watershed, half of the money comes from the Federal NRCS, 5.5 million and the other comes from our 18 partners in the Palouse watershed so it includes eight conservation district across five counties and then we also have the fish and wildlife agencies on both sides of the Idaho/Washington border, WSU and University of Idaho as well as a few other environmental groups and then the Pacific Northwest Direct Seed Association who is helping to roll out program Farm Smart.

For more information contact Laura Heinse at the Palouse Conservation District as I know deadline are coming up, September 30th, and ranking of applications will begin October 1, 2016