USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced it is expanding its partnership to support the conservation of private working lands and big game populations to include Idaho and Montana.
Producers in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming can apply for conservation programs through NRCS and the Farm Service Agency for conservation programs offered for grasslands, shrublands and forested lands for the new Migratory Big Game Initiative. “This opportunity is available statewide, but priority areas of Carbon, Hot Springs, Lincoln, Park, Sublette, Sweetwater, Fremont and Teton counties, which were developed in coordination with state wildlife agencies, will be given preference,” the release stated.
The program builds on the success of the Wyoming pilot program announced in May 2022 and compliments other ongoing conservation efforts, such as those conducted under the Working Lands for Wildlife. Interested producers should contact the NRCS at their local USDA Service Center.
