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Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
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The program focuses on implementing conservation practices and BMP's on land involved with livestock and crop production, encouraging environmental enhancement.
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Cost-sharing pays up to 75% of certain conservation practices, and incentives are given to perform land management practices. 50% of the available funding will be targeted at practices relating to livestock production. The Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI) also provides $93,000 of EQIP funding yearly for forest improvement activities. The funds reimburse landowners up to 75% of the costs of conducting forest improvement activitiesFunding Range:
Total payments do not exceed $10,000/yr or $50,000 for length of contract, average payment $15,000.Restoration Activity:
Grassed waterways, filter strips, manure management, nutrient management, integrated pest management, wildlife habitat management.Eligibility:
Individual/family farmers and ranchers. Eligible land includes cropland, rangeland, pastureland, private non-industrial forestland, and other farm or ranch lands. One acre of forest and a current forest management plan.Recently, forest management and conservation practices related to organic production have been given stronger emphasis in the program.
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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
Exploring the Use of Benthic Microbial Fuel Cells to Remove Sulfide While Harvesting Energy from Oyster Aquaculture Biodeposits
Oyster aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry in Maryland’s Chesapeake waters which stimulates economic activity and may provide a host of ecosystem benefits. A potential concern associated with the intensification of the oyster aquaculture is the local production and accumulation of oyster biodeposits, which can lead to a porewater sulfide accumulation and declining bioturbation, symptoms of declining ecosystem function. Sulfide is naturally removed from the seafloor by the interactions between bioturbating infauna and sulfide oxidizing bacteria.
Chesapeake Quarterly Magazine
A Growing Industry: Advancing Oyster Aquaculture in Maryland
