For information on any of these programs, contact your local USDA service center, your local conservation district, or your local cooperative extension agent. The conservation provisions of the 1996 Farm Bill authorized conservation of Private Grazing Land. It will ensure that technical, educational, and related assistance is provided to those who own private grazing lands. The Commodity Credit Corporation makes annual rental payments based on the agriculture rental value of the land and provides cost-share assistance in an amount equal to not more than 50 percent of the participant s costs in establishing approved practices. The duration of contracts is from 10 to 15 years.
Some counties have a beaver eradication program whereby a bounty is paid to harvesters of beavers.
The purpose of this program is to encourage private landowners to restore and enhance existing wetlands and riparian zones, and when possible, to create new wetlands and riparian zones. The program was created by the Arkansas Private Wetland and Riparian Zone Creation and Restoration Incentive Act of 1995, which allows a credit against the tax imposed by the Arkansas Income Tax Act for any taxpayer engaged in the development or restoration of wetlands and riparian zones. All systems must be designed and constructed in accordance with the Natural Resources Conservation Service s Technical Standards. All practices included in the Consolidated Farm Services Practice WP-4, Animal Waste Management System is eligible for the program. These should result in either water quantity or quality benefits or substitutes the use of surface water for ground water such that the ground water resource may be protected.