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Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program 2008

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is now seeking applications for the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP).  The objective of Rhode Island’s WHIP program is to enhance and restore native wildlife habitats that have been degraded, altered, or eliminated as a result of agriculture, urban & residential development, and changes in land use.  The focus of this program is to restore habitat types that have been identified by existing local, state, and federal restoration planning initiatives and NRCS partnerships. These habitats include:

  1. Coastal Habitats (Anadromous/Catadromous Fish Runs, Coastal marshes, and Eelgrass meadows)

  2. Freshwater Wetlands, Vernal Pools & Riparian Habitats (including urban rivers and floodplain buffers)

  3. Upland Habitats of State significance-Early successional habitats- (such as warm season grasslands, early successional forest and shrub-scrub habitat) and Oak/pitch pine barrens, and unfragmented interior forest

To apply you must complete the following application materials (It looks like a lot, but this is actually very easy to complete): 

  1. NRCS CPA 1200 Conservation Program Application with signed Appendix

  2. Applicable Sections of the Conservation Workbook

  3. If necessary, CCC-501 Form Member information for businesses, entities, or joint operations

  4. AD-1026 Highly Erodible Lands Conservation and Wetland Conservation Compliance form. To complete Contact the Farm Service Agency at 401-828-3120.

  5. CCC-526 Adjusted Gross Income to be filed with the Farm Service Agency (To complete Contact the Farm Service Agency at 401-828-3120).

  6. SF-1199 Direct Deposit Form Submission of these materials in no way obligates you or NRCS to an agreement or commitment for funding.  Once applications are received, projects will be developed and ranked. The highest ranking projects will then be eligible for financial assistance.  For further information visit http://www.ri.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/factsheets/WHIP.html . For assistance in completing applications contact Andrew Lipsky at 401-822-8842 or Joseph Bachand at 401-822-8818.

Please Submit Application Materials to:

USDA NRCS
60 Quaker Lane, Suite 46
Warwick, RI 02886
Fax: 401-828-0433
For more information please call: 
Michael Merrill - 401.822.8841 or
Michael Kenyon - 401.822.8821
 
These documents requires Adobe Acrobat.

Adobe Acrobat DocumentApplication Requirements FY 2008 (72KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentApplication Form CCC 1200 with Appendix (32KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentWHIP Fact Sheet (37KB)  
Adobe Acrobat DocumentConservation Workbook Rhode Island (562KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentDIRECT DEPOSIT SIGN UP Form (54KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentCCC 526 PAYMENT ELIGIBILITY (141KB)
  WHIP Practice Payment Schedule FY 08 (72KB)

WHIP Program Eligibility Guidelines and Ranking Tool for Fiscal Year 2008

Adobe Acrobat DocumentCost Sharing WHIP Funds for Early Successional Shrubland, Grassland and Interior Forest Habitats To be posted
Adobe Acrobat Document State and Federal Plant T&E Species and Species of Concern
Adobe Acrobat Document State and Federal Animal T&E Species and Species of Concern

WHIP State Plan

Adobe Acrobat Document2006 Rhode Island NRCS Fish & Wildlife Action Plan (1,065 KB)

Link to the National WHIP Web Site

Last Modified: 03/24/2008