500,000 acre habitat program

[Duckslayer100]

Well, it's a start. Didn't see anything about the 500,000 acres also being open to hunting. Maybe that's in the works??

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026...ounce-pilot-program-increase-habitat-land-nd/

Gov. Armstrong to announce pilot program to increase habitat land in N.D.​

BISMARCK, N.D. (Flag Family Media) - On the Flag, North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong said he will introduce a pilot project approved through the state’s Outdoor Heritage Fund on Thursday, January 29 to create more habitat.

“The first way you solve that before you ever get into access, before you get into everything else is have more deer. Have more pheasants. You can’t do that if you can’t have habitat,” Armstrong said on “What’s On Your Mind?”

The Outdoor Heritage Fund receives up to $40 million per biennium from oil and tax revenue to provide grants to state agencies, tribal governments, local governments and non-profits to enhance conservation.

Armstrong said he spoke to farmers and agriculture groups to see how more habitat on private property can be made after Conservation Reserve Program land went away and winter impacted the land.

He added there’s not a lot of public land in the state and if this pilot project works, he wants to figure out how to bring it statewide to have 500,000 acres of habitat land.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Outdoor Heritage Fund

https://www.ndic.nd.gov/research-gr...or-heritage-fund-grant-rounds-final-reports-0

The Gov started with this program below.

https://www.ndic.nd.gov/sites/www/f...vernors-Legacy-Soil-Health-and-Habitat-P-.pdf

That proposal was for 10,000 acres. Looks like he wants to go bigger.

 

[Obi-Wan]

public money needs to require public access

 

[NDSportsman]

public money needs to require public access

Yep. Otherwise it'll just be public money for a private hunting area. Then fee for access on top of it.

 

[walleyeman_1875]

might as well put it out there in case someone can throw there political weight around and plant an idea in someone’s mind.

If it’s ND tax revenue, we might as well stipulate this habitat land is for Residents only!!

 

[NDbowman]

A little off topic but funny that Kelly Armstrong would talk about public access as he and a friend of his own some land in Mchenry county for hunting that has a 40 acre parcel of BLM land that is land locked with no access to the BLM land.