Provide incentives to landowners to enhance wildlife habitat on working lands in the Eastern Nebraska Sandhills by removing invasive cedar, improving grazing infrastructure and restoring habitat with prescribed fire. Project will improve management on 48,922 acres of private working lands, resulting in high quality grassland health and soil health benefitting both cattle and wildlife.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Northern Great Plains
Project Title: Incentivizing Grassland Habitat Restoration on Private Working Lands in the Sandhills (NE)
Organization:
Pheasants Forever, Inc.
Project ID:
2501.20.067038
Description:
Award Amount:
$175837.45
Location:
Antelope, Boone, Blaine, Brown, Garfield, Greeley, Holt, Loup, Rock and Wheeler counties, Nebraska