New Private Habitat Plots

fireone

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Pheasants Forever & the Bee and Butterfly Fund have teamed up on a habitat seeding program for wildlife in the mid-west and North Dakota made the cut. You apply for a seed contract and if accepted you get a seed mix of about 3 dozen native grasses and flowers. B&BF has the goal of helping pollinators and PF of course is looking at pheasant increases. But it benefits most wildlife in general and deer like this cover too.

https://www.beeandbutterflyfund.org/seed-a-legacy-program.html


https://www.pheasantsforever.org/Ne...heasants-Pollinators,-Honey-Bee-and-Mona.aspx

There is no payment to the land owner but if you bought the seed mix over the counter it would run about $300 per acre seeding cost. USFW and NDGF have used a similar seed mix on WMAs and WPAs and it looks like this:

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I know for a few years now you could get higher crp payments if you implemented there flower mix. Problem is opening up the established crp and getting the flowers to grow.
 

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Habitat = hunting.
From a hunting aspect it is tough walking but not as bad as cattails. Deer and pheasants like the cover because they can move through it easily. I broadcast seeded a small plot in November and had enough left over for a couple small patches in the yard. Kind of anxious to see how it germinates this spring.

The B&BF isn't looking for big blocks of ground as they limit full seed cost to about 25 acres and prorate after that.
 


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The PF site says $50/acre annual payment to the landowner? On marginal ground that is fair money. We may look into it in some small plots. The pollinator plots are generally the best brood cover you can get for young chicks.
 

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