Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Pheasants Forever volunteers assisting with the Erwin brothers' guzzler move standing among the mature sagebrush shelterbelt. (Left to right) Dan Eveland, Carl Bisgard, George Endicott, Larry Boe, and Rolin Carpenter (Mark Lofgren not pictured).
Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever (Pheasants Forever) recently teamed with Mike and Steve Erwin to relocate two wildlife watering guzzlers on their 1,000-acre lease with an expiring Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contract near Prescott.
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, the CRP is one of the largest private-lands conservation programs in the United States. In exchange for a yearly rental payment, farmers enrolled in the program remove acreage from active crop production and re-establish native vegetation to benefit wildlife and the natural environment. CRP enrollments span...
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