FDACS Legislative Budget Request: $32.6 million FCG ASK: 32.6 Million Since 2009 RFLPP has protected over 53,000 acres. Local and federal partners have contributed over 13 million in matching funds. The Rural and Family Lands Protection Program (RFLPP) is an...
Land Conservation Funding Rural and Family Lands Protection Program (RFLPP)
FDACS Legislative Budget Request: $32.6 million Florida Conservation Group Request: $32.6 Million Federal funds can match the $32.6 Million budget request by Florida Department of Agriculture and essentially double the budget request. • The Rural and Family...
United Voices for Land Conservation Funding
Members of the conservation, ranching, forestry and sportsmen’s communities have come together in our collective support for funding two critical land protection programs. The Florida Forever Program and The Rural and Family Lands Protection Program are both needed...
Why are Florida’s ranchlands such a valuable land use?
Most of Florida ranchlands occurs in a historic region of south-central and southwest Florida where native dry prairie and other grassland savanna type ecosystems (including pine flatwoods) were the predominant landcover types; these landcover types are habitat to a...
DURANDO OKEECHOBEE WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
The Florida Conservation Group is proud to be working with Business for Water Stewardship www.businessforwater.org and the Durando Family Ranches to implement a dispersed water storage project in the Lake Okeechobee Watershed. This project will store and clean water...
NRCS Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)
• ACEP provides financial and technical assistance to help conserve agricultural lands and wetlands and their related benefits • NRCS helps landowners protect working agricultural lands and limit non-agricultural uses of the land and for working farms, the program...
NRCS Agricultural Land Easement Program (ALE)
Several NRCS programs are available to landowners interested in land conservation, including the Agricultural Land Easement Program (ALE). The ALE is a partnership program and is geared for working landscapes. NRCS provides financial assistance to eligible partners...
NRCS Wetland Reserve Easement Program (WRE)
WRE’s are critical to the protection of Florida’s water resources. WRE’s PREVENT further decreases in water quality through land protection and ADDRESS water quality issues by restoring wetlands so they can hold and clean water before it reaches our coastal estuaries....
Conservation Partners Project Underway in Southwest/South-central Florida
A National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Conservation Partners Grant The Conservation Partners Project (CPP), funded through a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, is underway in Florida. This innovative partnership between the National Wildlife Refuge...
Watch Video | Florida’s Land Conservation Programs
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