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NRCS Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
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USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) provides annual rental payments and cost-share assistance to establish resource conserving vegetation on eligible farmland and pastures.
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The Story of Wild Brook Trout
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Landowner Resources
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Stream Bank Restoration Program - Georgia SWCC and USFW Partners
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The Cooperative Agreement for Stream Bank Restoration Program assists landowners through public-private partnerships by offering advice and funding for habitat projects on private lands that restore and protect wetlands and other wildlife habitat that might otherwise go unprotected. The funding for this cost-share initiative is provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Program to GSWCC and provides incentives to install practices that improve riparian buffers and repair and protect stream banks. Project applications are prioritized in order to address priority watersheds and to provide maximum benefit to the 63 species on Georgia’s Threatened & Endangered Species List.
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The Story of Wild Brook Trout
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Landowner Resources
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Georgia Streambank and Shoreline Stabilization manual
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This chapter provides non-structural and structural practices that stabilize and protect streambanks and shorelines from the negative effects of land erosion. For water quality purposes—bioengineering and non-structural practices using native vegetation are preferred over conventional “hard armoring” such as riprap, seawalls, and bulkheads.
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The Story of Wild Brook Trout
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Landowner Resources
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Georgia Stream Crossing Handbook
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This handbook is intended to encourage the proper design and implementation of all new stream crossings in Georgia to maintain stream connectivity, improve stream health, provide for public safety, improve water quality, and make communities more resilient. Originally published in 2012, this 2021 update represents the work of 18 authors drawn from State and Federal Agencies, NGOs, academia, and private firms.
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Science and Data
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Aquatic Organism Passage I&A and state design guidelines
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State Sream Crossing Guidelines
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NRCS EQIP Program
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USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Farm Service Agency (FSA)Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) pays for agricultural practices on a cost-share basis for items like fencing, water facilities, etc. that have a positive impact on environmental conditions.
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The Story of Wild Brook Trout
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Landowner Resources
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USDA Conservation Stewardship Program
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The Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) helps agricultural producers maintain and improve their existing conservation systems and adopt additional conservation activities to address priority resources concerns. Participants earn CSP payments for conservation performance—the higher the performance, the higher the payment.
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The Story of Wild Brook Trout
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Landowner Resources
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A Map of Georgia Wild Brook Trout Patches
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The map provides a visual depiction of the distribution of Georgia's wild Brook Trout patches.
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Science and Data
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EBTJV State Maps and Resources
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State Maps of Wild Brook Trout Patch Distribution
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Habitat Restoration to Benefit Rare Species and Natural Communities in the Altamaha River Watershed
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Cool water springs feeding major coastal rivers in Georgia provide critical thermal refuges during summer for diadromous fishes such as striped bass. However, the connectivity of many of these springs to the main rivers has been diminished by drought, sedimentation, accumulation of debris, and beaver dams. The goal of this project was to improve the connectivity of Troup Springs to the Oconee River and enhance spring flows.
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Funded Projects
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SARP Projects W2B
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Altamaha River Flathead Project: More than One Way to Skin a Cat: Controlling the spread of invasive flathead catfish through research, outreach and education
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The Altamaha River Watershed Conservation Action Plan cites invasive species as one of the six highest ranked threats. One of the invasive species thriving in portions of the watershed is the flathead catfish, which cause environmental harm, threaten native species, and can change the recreational value of an area for anglers. User groups (general public, children, anglers, commercial fishermen) as well as watershed managers must work together to control a population by size or area of infestation.
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Funded Projects
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SARP Projects W2B
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Gravel Augmentation at Spawning Habitats in the Oconee and Ogeechee Rivers of Georgia
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The robust redhorse (Moxostoma robustum), a species that had been lost to science for about 150 years, was discovered on the Oconee River in 1991. Wild populations subsequently found in the Savannah River
(Georgia/South Carolina) and Pee Dee River
(North Carolina) have been augmented by stocking in other areas of Georgia and South Carolina. The species is very particular about the water quality and depth as well as the gravel quality of its spawning sites. To encourage propagation of this native species, the Robust Redhorse Conservation Committee coordinates activities in several southeastern states. The gravel augmentation is expected to benefit invertebrates, including mussels, as well as anadromous species such as striped bass, American shad, and Atlantic sturgeon.
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Funded Projects
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SARP Projects W2B