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Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) Most rare species in New Jersey can be found on -- and depend upon -- privately owned lands. In New Jersey many plants, animals and habitat types are in serious decline. As development and intensified agriculture pressures increase, we are losing much of what makes New Jersey so beautiful. In fact, there are over 70 endangered and threatened species in NJ that need our help to protect them from extinction. Since much of the land in our state is privately owned we can only protect our natural resources through active and thoughtful partnerships with willing landowners.
The Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) is one partnership that can provide private landowners interested in conserving threatened and endangered species on their property with financial and technical assistance. It is the goal of LIP to work with private landowners to protect important habitats so our children and great grandchildren can benefit from our conservation efforts.
The NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife, through the Nongame and Endangered Species Program (ENSP), administers this program. ENSP was successful in its 2007 grant request to US Fish and Wildlife Service and was awarded $849,510 for landowner projects. ENSP will make $774,510 available for grants beginning in 2009 to landowners. $75,000 will be used for a small grants (under $5,000) program. The ENSP is seeking proposals for Landowner Incentive Program projects. Landowners are encouraged to contact a regional Private Lands Biologist for assistance in applying. Private Lands Biologist contact information can be found below. You may complete an application on your own by downloading and filling out the application form below. You MUST include a map of the property with your application - a tax map is not acceptable. The proposals should focus on the enhancement of at least one rare species or its habitat in a significant way and describe actions on the private landowner's property that will address management, protection and restoration of habitats that benefit Federally and/or state listed species and/or species of special concern. (For information on and lists of New Jersey's state endangered, threatened and species of concern see the links below.) Applicants must provide a minimum 25% match of the total cost of the project. All proposals shall be designed to document measurable results and a minimum duration of 5 years. A site visit questionnaire, which biologists use to rate applications, can be viewed at www.njfishandwildlife.com/ensp/pdf/lip_biol_questions.pdf (pdf, 55kb). Proposals are due to ENSP by September 1, 2008. While LIP encourages all types of projects that will benefit listed wildlife, funding priority will be given to several categories of project types 1) grasslands of over 10 acres, 2) habitat management and restoration or enhancement within Cape May peninsula, 3) bog turtle habitat management and restoration or enhancement, and 4) Indiana bat habitat management and protection/enhancement or restoration. IMPORTANT DATES
North Jersey: MacKenzie Hall, 908-852-2576 x112 For maps of critical wildlife habitat in your area please refer to the Landscape Project Map or iMAPNJ. For additional information contact Kim Korth, LIP Project Manager, at 609-292-9400 or Kim.Korth@dep.state.nj.us. Proposed action must not have an adverse or negative impact on existing T&E species found on property.
LIP Brochure - 14"x11" (pdf, 1.6mb)
New Jersey's Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
LIP Application Form (pdf, 6kb)
The application form can be completed and e-mailed as an attachment to kim.korth@dep.state.nj.us, or printed and snail-mailed to:
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Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)
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You can implement important and creative management activities on your property on a cost share basis for the benefit of endangered or threatened species and have the satisfaction of being an active partner in working to protect NJ's rare and fragile wildlife.
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