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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
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RollingPurpose:
An enhancement to the CRP program, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) hopes to enroll 100,000 acres statewide.Support Type:
BothAvailable Funding:
$100 per acre state signing bonus, 50% cost-share to install eligible practices and an annual land rental payment that includes both the current soil rental rate plus an additional incentive payment that is 150% of the local soil rental rate.Restoration Activity:
Riparian BuffersEligibility:
Landowners; land must have been in commodity crops for two out of the last five most recent years.<< Back to WRA Directory
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Featured Fellow
Leone Yisrael is a cephalopod-loving scuba diver, cook, and loves to try new activities. She conducts genetic analysis and fieldwork at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center through the Coastal Disease Ecology Lab.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake Quarterly Magazine
Complicated Contaminants: Finding PFAS in the Chesapeake Bay
