Landowners in four northeastern Missouri counties have until July 28 to apply
for funding through a new Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) initiative.
The initiative, called a reverse auction, is available to landowners in
Adair, Linn, Macon and Sullivan counties. The WRP reverse auction will pay landowners to establish wetlands in exchange
for perpetual easements. In exchange for the easements, landowners may receive
100 percent of their accepted offer for the enrolled land plus the cost of
approved wetland restoration practices.
To be eligible for participation, lands must be privately owned, tribal land
or state, county or non-federal public lands that meet WRP eligibility criteria.
Eligible landowners should complete applications for the reverse auction
at their local NRCS field offices. They also must conduct environmental self
assessments of the lands they wish to enroll in WRP, and submit sealed bids that
are less than the geographically determined bid cap. Applications will be
prioritized according to an environmental benefits index that is determined by
dividing the landowner bid offer by the environmental self assessment score.
The following document requires
Adobe Acrobat.
Missouri WRP Bid Pilot Self Assessment Guide
Missouri WRP Pilot Self-Assessment Guide
(PDF, 61 KB)
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