Duck Creek

Idaho LIP Awards for 2007

Idaho Landowner Incentive Program awards for more than $645,000 were made to three conservation projects for 2007. The three projects awards are:

Awards distributed to landowners in the 2007 conservation priority areas - Palouse Prairie, Upper Henrys Fork and the Bear River Basin - come from an annual appropriation by the Interior Department to the Fish and Wildlife Service and then through a competitive grant process to the state fish and wildlife agency.

A six-member ranking team, with two members from nongovernmental agencies, one private landowner, one from Fish and Wildlife, and two from Fish and Game, review and rank all project proposals. The final decisions are based on the ranking of each proposal and the money available.

The Landowner Incentive Program encourages conservation efforts to protect and restore fish and wildlife habitat on private lands before species are threatened with extinction. Program goals are: