{"id":187,"date":"2011-12-29T17:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/?p=187"},"modified":"2011-12-29T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:22:07","slug":"nrcs-csp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/2011\/12\/29\/nrcs-csp\/","title":{"rendered":"NRCS Conservation Stewardship Program &#8211; a financial incentive for conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/files\/2011\/12\/NRCS1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-189\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/files\/2011\/12\/NRCS1-300x91.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/714\/files\/2011\/12\/NRCS1-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/714\/files\/2011\/12\/NRCS1-1024x311.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/714\/files\/2011\/12\/NRCS1-400x121.jpg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/714\/files\/2011\/12\/NRCS1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.or.nrcs.usda.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Conservation Service <\/a>is accepting applications for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.or.nrcs.usda.gov\/programs\/csp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Conservation Stewardship Program <\/a>now through January 13th. The CSP provides a per-acre payment to small woodland owners that can demonstrate that they are implementing conservation and stewardship practices such as stream restoration, wildlife habitat enhancement, or other measures. Interested landowners should contact their local NRCS office to learn about eligibility and to determine whether CSP is a good fit for them.<\/p>\n<p>The NRCS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.or.nrcs.usda.gov\/news\/releases\/2011\/NR_2011-12-001.html\" target=\"_blank\">news release <\/a>states that payments are typically around $9 to $12 per acre &#8211; which makes me wonder whether it is worth the time and paperwork for a small landowner. However, I do know that several\u00a0woodland owners\u00a0in our area participated in the CSP program last year. Are you one of them? I invite you to share your\u00a0experience by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/2011\/12\/29\/nrcs-csp\/#respond\">commenting on this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications for the Conservation Stewardship Program now through January 13th. The CSP provides a per-acre payment to small woodland owners that can demonstrate that they are implementing conservation and stewardship practices such as stream restoration, wildlife habitat enhancement, or other measures. Interested landowners should contact their local NRCS&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/2011\/12\/29\/nrcs-csp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1783,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55516],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-financial-assistance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}