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Farmable Wetlands Program
Grant Program Website:
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-programs/farmable-we…Support Agency:
Program Contact:
Maryland State Farm Service Agency
Maryland FSA State Office
339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 104
Annapolis, MD 21409
339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 104
Annapolis, MD 21409
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The Farmable Wetlands Program (FWP) is designed to restore previously farmed wetlands and wetland buffer to improve both vegetation and water flow. FWP is a voluntary program to restore up to one million acres of farmable wetlands and associated buffers.Support Type:
Funding AssistanceFunding Range:
FSA provides cost-sharing and other incentives as well as annual rental payments for enrolled acres.Restoration Activity:
Restore the wetlands, establish plant cover, and to not use enrolled land for commercial purposes.Eligibility:
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
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.
