Longleaf Pine - Bobwhite Quail - Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

Resource Concern: Wildlife

Target counties are those containing longleaf pines. Counties known to contain longleaf pines:
 

Priority for Funding

High Priority

Applicants must meet all three criteria to be ranked high priority.

• Acreage currently contains or will be planted to longleaf pines.
• Restoration of longleaf pine savannah is the long term management goal and prescribed burning is, or will be part of a plan written for this tract.
• Acreage can be safely burned.

All high priority applications will be accepted and ranked for possible funding. Low priority applications will be accepted but not ranked unless funds are available after all high priority applications have been funded.

Eligible Practices

• Prescribed Burning (338)
• Forest Site Preparation (490)
• Tree/Shrub Establishment (612)
• Forestland Improvement (666)

Cost Share Rates

Limited Resource Farmer/Producer - 90 percent
Beginning Farmer/Rancher - 50 percent
All other categories - 50 percent

Practices will be cost shared based on established county average cost of the practice.

Ranking Criteria

Contiguous Acres Planned for Enrollment in this Tract

Proximity of tract to other longleaf pine tracts containing known populations of species of concern.

Native grasses currently on the offered tract