PA’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Closes Out 2023 With More Than 82,000 Acres of Rural Land Enrolled for Improvements
The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) has announced its latest program performance metrics, which include more than 82,000 rural acres across the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River, and Ohio River basin watersheds currently enrolled and set to receive support for conservation projects or other improvements.
- The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) has announced its latest program performance metrics, which include more than 82,000 rural acres across the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River, and Ohio River basin watersheds currently enrolled and set to receive support for conservation projects or other improvements.
- CREP is designed to improve water quality, benefit wildlife through habitat development, and reward participants for doing their part to help the environment.
- In the latest performance measures released by FSA, CREP support for lands in Pennsylvania amounted to more than 5,000 current program contracts, of which more than 3,500 are rural farms enrolled in the program.
- “We are grateful for the landowners enrolled in CREP who are doing their part to protect our natural resources.