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Woodland Incentive Program
Grant Program Website:
http://dnr.maryland.gov/forests/Pages/programapps/costshareprograms.aspx#wipSupport Agency:
Program Contact:
Maryland DNR Forest Service
Forest Service
Tawes State Office Building E-1
580 Taylor Ave.
Annapolis, MD 2140
Tawes State Office Building E-1
580 Taylor Ave.
Annapolis, MD 2140
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The Woodland Incentive Program supports maintenance and reforestation for wind and soil erosion, enhanced water quality, wildlife habitat, and an increased timber production.Support Type:
Funding AssistanceAvailable Funding:
Cost-sharing up to 65% for timber stand improvement, tree planting and preparation for natural regeneration.Funding Range:
$50 to $10,000 per year, $1,600 avg.Restoration Activity:
Tree planting, timber stand improvements, and related practices on private forestlands.Eligibility:
Private landowners with non-industrial forests; must be between 10 and 1,000 acres of eligible forestland or land that is suitable for conversion from cropland, reforestation or improved forest management and capable of producing marketable timber crops.<< Back to WRA Directory
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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.
