Buffers for Wildlife Project

Updated 05/28/2008

The Buffers Initiative has great potential to help American farmers, ranchers and other private landowners protect their soil, enhance water quality and provide wildlife habitat. The Buffers for Wildlife project was a joint effort by Wildlife Management Institute and NRCS' Watershed Science Institute and Wildlife Team.
The objective of the project was to assist one state in each NRCS Region to develop wildlife friendly jobsheets for selected buffer practices. The six states that volunteered for the pilot were Maryland, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, South Dakota and Utah. The State Conservationists and the Directors of the respective state wildlife agencies selected staff members to participate in facilitated workshops leading to job sheets that contained the agreed-to content. The Wildlife Management Institute provided the facilitators of the workshops and the WHMI and WSSI provided a coordinator to assist the states with the development of a final product.

Keeping with NRCS' "Locally Led" concept each state addressed the challenge differently. This was a necessity because of ecological differences that planners face when developing wildlife habitat across all regions of the United States. Our hope is that the diversity among the final products, developed by each state, will provide choices and templates for State Biologists and others.

The participants in this effort received the Wildlife Management Institute's prestigious Touchstone Award at the 65th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference on March 28, 2000.  

Illinois

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Wildlife Habitat in Windbreaks Supplement to Job Sheet 380 (PDF, 489 KB)

Wildlife Habitat in Grassed Waterways Supplement to Job Sheet 412 (PDF, 433 KB)

Wildlife Habitat in Field Borders Wildlife Job Sheet Insert 386W (PDF, 465 KB)

Wildlife Habitat in Riparian Forest Buffers Supplement to Job Sheet 391 (PDF, 515 KB)

Wildlife Habitat in Filter Strips Supplement to Job Sheet 393 (PDF, 469KB)

Maryland

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Field Borders Supplement to Job Sheet 386 (PDF, 4.5 MB)

North Carolina

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Wildlife Habitat in Windbreaks Supplement to Job Sheet 380 (PDF, 664 KB)

Wildlife Habitat in Grassed Waterways Supplement to Job Sheet 412 (PDF, 613 KB)

Wildlife Habitat in Field Borders Supplement to Job Sheet 386 (PDF, 779 KB)

Wildlife Habitat in Riparian Forest Buffers Supplement to Job Sheet 391 (PDF, 746 KB)

Wildlife Habitat in Filter Strips Supplement to Job Sheet 393 (PDF, 683 KB)

South Dakota

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Windbreaks/Shelterbelts as Wildlife Habitat  Job Sheet 380 (PDF, 240 KB)

Grassed Waterways as Wildlife Habitat Job Sheet 412 (PDF, 222 KB)

Field Borders as Wildlife Habitat Job Sheet 386 (PDF, 184 KB)

Riparian Forest Buffers as Wildlife Habitat Job Sheet 391 (PDF, 258 KB)

Filter Strips as Wildlife Habitat Job Sheet 393 (PDF, 255 KB)

Texas

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Buffer for Wildlife in Windbreaks Conservation Buffer Job Sheet 380 (PDF, 92 KB)

Buffers for Wildlife in Field Borders Conservation Buffer Job Sheet 386 (PDF, 86 KB)

Buffers for Wildlife in Filter Strips Conservation Buffer Job Sheet 393 (PDF, 90 KB)

Buffers for Wildlife in Riparian Forest Buffer Conservation Buffer Job Sheet 391 (PDF, 104 KB)

Utah

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Windbreaks/Shelterbelts for Utah Wildlife Conservation Buffer Job Sheet 380 (PDF, 119 KB)

Field Borders for Utah Wildlife Conservation Buffer Job Sheet 386 (PDF, 148 KB)

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