Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced a $9.4 million conservation partnership with Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe to restore more than 6,000 acres of hardwood tree forests and wetlands in the Cache River/Bayou Deview watersheds, located in the northeast counties of Monroe, Prairie and Woodruff. - Full Story
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns celebrated Earth Day by signing two Colorado Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) partnerships totaling $91.6 million that will conserve water and improve wildlife habitat. - Full Story
$10 million Federal-State partnership with Delaware to improve the water quality ofthe watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and the Inland Bays basin area. - Full Story
USDA and the state of Florida are launching a $153 million voluntary program to restore up to 30,000 acres of environmentally sensitive Florida land, including the Everglades.-Full Story
The Idaho Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer CREP targets the enrollment of up to 100,000 acres of eligible irrigated cropland to reduce irrigation water use, increase water quality, reduce soil erosion and sedimentation and increase wildlife populations. - Full Story
The CREP agreement with the state of Illinois will provide $250 million to help preserve thousands of acres along waterways throughout the Illinois River watershed. Statement by Vice President Gore on Improving the Illinois River - (TXT or PDF)
The Indiana CREP targets the enrollment of 7,000 acres in the Highland/Pigeon, Tippecanoe and Upper White River watersheds where sediment, nutrients, pesticides and herbicides run off from agricultural land. Landowners can offer eligible cropland and marginal pastureland in these watersheds. - Full Story
USDA and the State of Iowa will launch a $40 million program to address water quality issues related to excess nitrogen impacting water quality in 37 counties in North Central Iowa. - Full Story
Louisiana Lower Ouachita River Basin CREP. The Louisiana CREP, which targets the enrollment of 50,000 acres in the Bayou Macon and Boeuf River Watersheds, will improve water quality in two major Louisiana watersheds.
USDA and Maryland, in cooperation with other Federal, State, and local authorities, take action to help reduce the occurrence of runoff, sediment, and nutrients in the Chesapeake Bay and to promote enhanced wildlife habitats. -TXT or PDF
USDA and Michigan have agreed on a plan to implement CREP to improve the water quality of Macatawa, River Raisin, and Saginaw Bay Watershed and many of the streams and rivers that feed into these bodies of water. - Full Story
The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program supports the State's goal to make the Minnesota River clean enough for people to fish and swim in it by the year 2002. It provides for the enrollment of 190,000 acres of land through the year 2002. A CREP agreement was signed by Deputy Secretary Rominger and Governor Carlson in Bloomington, Minnesota, on February 19, 1998.
USDA and Missouri join to protect Missouri?s drinking water and environment, under the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). The program will reduce pollution of streams and reservoirs that supply water to more than 375,000 Missouri residents -Full Story
USDA and the State of Nebraska will launch a $209 million program to address water quality and wildlife habitats in all or a portion of 37 counties in Nebraska. - Full Story
USDA and Nebraska launch the Platte-Republican Resources $158 million CREP to improve water quality and enhance wildlife habitat in southern and western Nebraska. - Full Story
$100 million CREP partnership between USDA and the State of New Jersey to improve water quality of streams filtering into the Atlantic Ocean. - Full Story
USDA announces $10 million joint New York-Federal project to implement a Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in the Catskill and Delaware watersheds of the New York City drinking water supply system. - Full Story
Partnership with State of Ohio to help farmers protect land and to improve the water quality of Lake Erie and 5,000 miles of Ohio streams. - Full Story
$13.2 million Upper Big Walnut Creek CREP Agreement to safeguard the Hoover Reservoir, the primary drinking water source for Columbus, Ohio. - Full Story
USDA and Partners Expand Ohio Conservation Program to Improve Lake Erie Water Quality - Full Story
Oklahoma CREP
$20.6 million cooperative conservation partnership with the State of Oklahoma to create up to 9,000 acres of riparian buffers and filter strips. - Full Story
CREP agreement with Pennsylvania to improve water conditions in the Ohio River, the third largest drainage basin in the Gulf of Mexico watershed. - Full Story
$250 million effort to restore streams and save endangered salmon species listed under the Federal Endangered Species Act. The project area includes all streams in Washington crossing agricultural lands providing spawning habitat for the endangered salmon species. - Full Story
Agreement between USDA and the state of Wisconsin on a $243 million Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program to protect the state's water quality and wildlife habitat. - Full Story
