UPLAND ENHANCEMENT PRACTICE
Photo: Chad Switzer, SD Game, Fish & Parks
SD GF&P will also cost share up to 100% of permanent fencing materials (interior and exterior fences) to establish a managed or rotational grazing system. This practice not only benefits the livestock producer by increasing plant vigor and forage quality, but improves habitat conditions and provides residual nesting cover needed by numerous upland nesting species.
Priority will be given to those sites located in close proximity to intact wetland/grassland complexes, in conjunction with a wetland creation or restoration project, and with those landowners who already are using some kind of managed grazing system.
Cooperating landowners are responsible for the installation and maintenance of fencing projects and agree to develop a managed grazing system with SD GFP using USDA-NRCS stocking rate guidelines.
- Expired CRP--An Opportunity for Additional Grazing Acres? (PDF)
- Photos of Upland Enhancements
- Examples of Grazing Systems
- Contact a SD GFP Habitat Biologist
Private Lands Habitat Programs
Wetland and Grassland Habitat Program
Federal Farm Bill Conservation Programs
Interested in one of these programs?
Contact a SD GFP Habitat Biologist