The WRP is a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property. The USDA/NRCS provides technical and financial support to help landowners with their wetland restoration efforts. The NRCS goal is to achieve the greatest wetland functions and values, along with optimum wildlife habitat, on every acre enrolled in the program.
The WRP is a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property. The USDA/NRCS provides technical and financial support to help landowners with their wetland restoration efforts. The NRCS goal is to achieve the greatest wetland functions and values, along with optimum wildlife habitat, on every acre enrolled in the program. This particular WRP involved a 600-acre area that had been previously drained for farming and cattle ranching.
The goal of this WRP project was to better control the amount of drainage in the project area, which promotes a more natural hydroperiod and helps to restore onsite wetlands. The work consisted of clearing and grubbing, structure removal, excavation, earthfill, re-developing a meandering portion of a creek, installing geocell for low water crossings, installation a ConTech bridge, installing rip rap, and seeding and mulching.
