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Farm Bill 101: Conservation Title

Join Mary Pfaffko, Senior Policy Analyst for Private Lands, to learn how the Conservation Title of the Farm Bill is critical to protecting a variety of species and their habitats! Transcript: Our nation's private lands provide the food we eat. But did you know they also provide habitat for wildlife? That's one reason why the Farm Bill incentivizes private landowners like farmers and ranchers to keep their lands resilient and productive. Title Two of the Farm Bill includes conservation programs that are critical to wildlife. Let's learn about five of those programs. The Environmental Quality Incentives Program helps landowners implement conservation actions on their working lands. You can see this in action in the Southeast U.S., where the program funds conservation efforts for gopher tortoise. The Conservation Stewardship Program rewards those who are already engaged in conservation work, like the establishment of monarch butterfly habitat in the Midwest and southern Great Plains. The Agricultural Conservation Easement program helps permanently protect agricultural land from development like wetland habitat for sandhill cranes in Wisconsin. The Conservation Reserve Program provides rental payments to landowner to take environmentally sensitive land out of crop production for 10 to 15 years, while vegetation is planted to restore the water and soil quality and create wildlife habitat. The endangered ocelot benefits from this program in Texas because it's restoring thorn scrub habitat that it needs to survive. And finally, the Regional Conservation Partnership Program leverages expertise from farmers, agencies, organizations, academic institutions and others for locally led conservation projects like salmon recovery in the Northwest U.S. Defenders of Wildlife works with Congress to ensure that the Farm Bill's conservation programs equitably provide for wildlife habitat and productive and resilient working lands.