Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
RCPP promotes coordination of NRCS conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions to expand our collective ability to address on-farm, watershed, and regional natural resource concerns. Through RCPP, NRCS seeks to co-invest with partners to implement projects that demonstrate innovative solutions to conservation challenges and provide measurable improvements and outcomes tied to the resource concerns they seek to address.
How It Works
Partners apply to NRCS for RCPP project awards. Once projects are selected, NRCS works with partners to set aside a certain pool of funding for an awarded project. Producers, landowners, and partners then enter into producer contracts and supplemental agreements with NRCS to carry out agreed-to conservation activities.
To learn more, visit the RCCP website.
RCPP promotes coordination of NRCS conservation activities with partners that offer value-added contributions to expand our collective ability to address on-farm, watershed, and regional natural resource concerns. Through RCPP, NRCS seeks to co-invest with partners to implement projects that demonstrate innovative solutions to conservation challenges and provide measurable improvements and outcomes tied to the resource concerns they seek to address.
How It Works
Partners apply to NRCS for RCPP project awards. Once projects are selected, NRCS works with partners to set aside a certain pool of funding for an awarded project. Producers, landowners, and partners then enter into producer contracts and supplemental agreements with NRCS to carry out agreed-to conservation activities.
To learn more, visit the RCCP website.
bird benefits
to learn more, visit the American bird conservancy
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The RCPP-funded Tricolored Blackbird Project has helped save 100% of the vulnerable population last year by working with landowners to protect 57,000 birds across nearly 400 acres. |
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With $10 million in RCPP funding, 100,000 acres of rice land was enhanced to create seasonal wetlands for migratory birds, while sustaining agricultural production. |
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The Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI), part of the Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) program, restores sagebrush habitat to benefit sage-grouse, and 350 important species. Through EQIP, RCPP and other Farm Bill conservation programs, 1,500 ranchers improved 5.6 million acres of sagebrush habitat across 11 Western states. |
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RCPP has supported projects to conserve the Golden-winged Warbler – one of the fastest-declining migratory songbirds – which depends upon the conservation of key habitat in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin for breeding. Across its range, it has suffered a decline of more than three percent annually over the last 40 years. |
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The Cerulean Warbler Appalachian Forestland Enhancement Project was supported by RCPP to work with private landowners to enhance forest habitat on private lands for the Cerulean Warbler – another songbird in steep decline. |