1. Slide 1 WILDLIFE HABITAT INCENTIVES PROGRAM (WHIP) United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service

2. Slide 2 WHIP Key Points Improves and protects wildlife habitat on private and Tribal lands Provides technical and financial assistance under 5-year to 15-year agreements

3. Slide 3 WHIP Key Points Wildlife habitat resource needs identified in the state WHIP plan. Developed by State Conservationist with Kansas State Technical Committees advice.

4. Slide 4 WHIP Key Points Kansas WHIP plan –Targeted Species Lesser/Greater Prairie Chicken Bobwhite Quail Ring-Necked Pheasant

5. Slide 5 WHIP Key Points Application ranking factors consider environmental benefits and cost effectiveness A person may participate in WHIP if he or she owns or leases land or can provide proof of control of the land for the agreement period

6. Slide 6 WHIP Key Points KDWP provides WHIP technical support –Announce WHIP –Service applications –Develop plans and contracts –Apply practices and systems

7. Slide 7 WHIP Key Points Essential plant and animal habitat agreements –Target species: greater and lesser prairie chickens –Target treatment: brush control and grazing lands management –Fifteen year agreements –100 percent cost-share on brush control and grazing lands management

8. Slide 8 EQIP, WRP and WHIP have open sign-ups, and applications are accepted continuously WHIP Key Points

9. Slide 9 WHIP Key Points National Accomplishments Through 2002 –Contracts: 12,500 –Acres: 1.9 million Kansas Accomplishments Through 2003 –Contracts: 435 –Acres: 70,912

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