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 CRP enhances wildlife habitat. The grass, trees, and wetlands established by CRP benefit numerous wildlife species. Several studies have identified benefits to multiple wildlife populations. Reports from MAE studies that measure wildlife benefits are listed below. Click the title to view the report.  Project Reports and Articles **Title****Authors****Year**Efficiency of the Conservation Reserve Program in Context of Focused Landscape Management for Northern Bobwhites and Associated Species (648 KB, PDF)Yeiser, Martin, Dailey, and Foley2019Effectiveness Monitoring of the Conservation Reserve Program and Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative for Managing the Biodiversity Grassland Birds in the Southern Great Plains (972 KB, PDF)Pavlacky and Green2018Developing Decision Support Tools for Optimizing Retention and Placement of Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands in the Northern Great Plains for Grassland Birds (3 MB, PDF)Fields, Barnes, Niemuth, Iovanna, Ryba, and Moore2017Extending removal and distance-removal models for abundance estimation by modeling detections in continuous time (1 MB, PDF)Martin-Schwarze2017Amphibians, Pesticides, and the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in Restored Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes (1 MB, PDF)Reeves, Pierce, Vandever, Muths, and Smalling2017Lesser Prairie Chicken Fence Collision Risk Across Its Northern Distribution (1 MB, PDF)Robinson, Haukos, Plumb, Hagen, Pitman, Lautenbach, Sullins, Kraft, and Lautenbach2016Restored Agricultural Wetlands in central Iowa: Habitat Quality and Amphibian Response (653 KB, PDF)Reeves, Pierce, Smalling, Klaver, Vandever, Battaglin, and Muths2015Management of Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands to Meet Wildlife Habitat Objectives (31 MB, PDF)Vandever and Allen2015Economic Contribution, Impacts, and Economic Benefits of Deer, Waterfowl and Upland Game Bird Hunting in North and South Dakota: Relationship to CRP Lands (941 KB, PDF)Loomis and Haefele2015Assessing the Biological Benefits of the USDA-Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for Waterfowl and Grassland Passerines in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States: Spatial analyses for targeting CRP to maximize benefits for migratory birds (3 MB, PDF)Drum, Loesch, Carrlson, Doherty, and Fedy2015Lesser Prairie Chicken - Lesser Prairie-Chicken Movement, Space Use, Survival, and Response to Anthropogenic Structures in Kansas and Colorado (2 MB, PDF)Plumb2015Lesser Prairie Chicken - Lesser Prairie-Chicken Reproductive Success, Habitat Selection, and Response to Trees (1 MB, PDF)Lautenbach2015Pesticide concentrations in frog tissue and wetland habitats in a landscape dominated by agriculture (2 MB, PDF)Smalling, Reeves, Muths, Vandever, Battaglin, Hladik, and Pierce2015Lesser Prairie Chicken - A Historical Record of Land Cover Change of The Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range in Kansas (3 MB, PDF)Spencer2014Estimating the Effect of the Conservation Reserve Program on Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Wildlife Species (2 MB, PDF)Benton, Hammerson, McNees, Menard, and White2012Conservation Reserve Program CP33–Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds Bird Monitoring and Evaluation Plan 2006–2008 Final Report (3 MB, PDF)Evans, Burger, Smith, and Riffell2009Estimating the Response of Ring-necked Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) to the Conservation Reserve Program (2 MB, PDF)Nielson, McDonald, Sullivan, Burgess, Johnson, Johnson, Bucholtz, Hyberg, and Howlin2008Recreational Use & Economics of Conservation Reserve (CRP) Acreage: A National Survey of Landowners (1 MB, PDF)Allen and Witter2008Waterfowl Response to CRP and Swampbuster Provision in the Prairie Pothole Region, 1992 – 2004 (1 MB, PDF)Shaffer2007Benefits of the CRP to Grassland Bird Populations in the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota and South Dakota (2 MB, PDF)Niemuth, Quamen, Naugle, Reynolds, Estey and Shaffer2007Fish and Wildlife Response to Farm Bill Conservation Practices (2 MB, PDF)Haufler, ed.2007Estimating Wildlife Response to the Conservation Reserve Program: Bobwhite and Grassland Birds (491 KB, PDF)Riffell and Burger2006Estimating Response of Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) to the Conservation Reserve Program (691 KB, PDF)Nielson, McDonald, Sullivan, Burgess, Johnson, and Howlin2006Use of Conservation Reserve Program fields by greater sage-grouse and other shrubsteppe-associated wildlife in Washington state (4 MB, PDF)Schroeder and Vander Haegen2006
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