NGPC Offers Landowners Additional Income on CRP Acres

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NGPC news release, 5/7/08:

LINCOLN, Neb. -- The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and Pheasants Forever are currently enrolling Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres into the CRP-Management Access Program (CRP-MAP). The CRP-MAP program offers landowners the opportunity to increase their income from CRP land by opening it to public access hunting.

“This is a great chance for landowners to enroll CRP land into the CRP-MAP program,” said Steve Riley, assistant administrator of the Commission’s Wildlife Division. “CRP-MAP has been one of our most popular programs with Nebraska’s hunters and landowners.” Interested landowners should contact a Commission staff member if they are interested in enrolling CRP acres or learning more about the program’s options. In order to be enrolled for the 2008-09 season, landowners need to be signed up by June 1.

CRP-MAP provides annual payments to landowners for walk-in access to CRP fields during hunting and trapping seasons. Enrolled CRP tracts are marked with signs, published in the CRP-MAP Atlas and posted on the Commission Web site at Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Homepage. Payments for CRP-MAP contracts range from $1 to $5 per acre, depending on the quality of habitat and level of habitat management on enrolled lands.

CRP owners interested in enrolling in the program should contact the following Wildlife Division staff at the nearest Commission location:

Alliance, Emily Munter (308) 763-2940;

Bassett, Bill Vodehnal (402) 684-2921;

Beatrice, Matt Steffl (402) 228-0269;

Chadron, Shelley Stoley (308) 432-6190;

Kearney, Laurel Badura (308) 865-5310;

Lincoln, Scott Luedtke (402) 471-0641;

Norfolk, Clayton Stalling or Scott Wessel (402) 370-3374;

North Platte, TJ Walker (308) 535-8025.

More information is also available at Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Homepage.