(Return matching records with ALLANY of these words.)    ................................................................ state Choose State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illiniois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississipi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming District of Columbia    regions Choose region Pacific Southwest Midwest Southeast Northeast Mountain-Prairie Alaska California-Nevada All Regions    ................................................................ ................................................................ Journal Entry   Back Playa wetland proposal submitted to NRCS Texas State Technical Committee Southwest Region, September 15, 2005 Print Friendly Version On September 15, 2005, PFW program State Coordinator, Don Wilhelm, made a presentation to the Natural Resource Conservation Service's State Technical Committee (STC) on a proposal for the development of a ?Playa Lakes Special Emphasis Area? within the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) in Texas. Historically, most of the WRP projects have been located in east Texas due to the difficulty of establishing a ranking system which does not favor one geographic region over another; all previous ranking systems have had an inherent bias toward the larger bottomland hardwood restoration projects located mostly in east Texas. The proposal presented for the Playa Lakes Special Emphasis Area would eliminate competition with the east Texas projects by allocating $1 million WRP dollars to the Emphasis Area. Also, the proposal included a request to allow for an increase in the amount of adjacent upland ?buffer? acreage to be enrolled as a part of the WRP project. Under the proposal, NRCS would have the option to increase the wetland restored acres to upland buffer acres ratio from the normal 1:1 to 1:2. The proposal was well received by the STC, and it is believed that the NRCS State Conservationist will enact the proposal as proposed. Contact Info: Martin Valdez, 505-248-6599, martin_valdez@fws.gov Send to: From: Notes: ..........................................................................................

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