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Description
Annual cash rental payments to landowners who plant and maintain high quality habitat for pheasants and allow public hunting
Participation Pre-requisites
- Property must be within the Pheasant Management Focus Area in southeast Washington (portions of Whitman, Walla Walla, Columbia, and Garfield counties) unless extenuating circumstances exist.
- Minimum agreement length is 5 years. (Agreements for 10+ years are preferred.)
- May extend CREP or riparian forest buffer planting widths and provide habitat incentive payments for lands enrolled in U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation programs.
- Must allow “Feel Free To Hunt” or “Register To Hunt” public access.
- General property location will be displayed on WDFW’s GoHunt map with state, federal, and other WDFW access program lands.
- Projects must be able to support desired habitat without irrigation.
Payments to Landowners
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One-time Signing Incentive Payment |
Installation Cost Share |
Annual Rental |
Weed Control |
| Within 100'* |
$10/ac/ Contract Yr |
100% cost share by completion of installation |
160% of weighted average Soil Rental Rate |
Cost Reimbursement |
Outside 100'
(up to 150 ac) |
$10/ac/ Contract Yr |
100% cost share by completion of installation |
100% of weighted average Soil Rental Rate |
Cost Reimbursement |
Access
Payment |
$1/ac/yr paid as part of the annual Parternships for Pheasants payment |
| * For new habitat developed within 100 feet of the high water mark in a riparian zone or within 100 feet of conservation land that already extends from that mark (e.g., CREP) |
Administering
Agency
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
WDFW
Grant Contact Information
- Whitman County - Kurt Merg 509-648-3680
- Walla Walla & Columbia Counties - Scott Rasley 509-527-4147 or 509-520-8084
- Asotin & Garfield Counties - Jason Earl 509-758-5314
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