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Buffer Incentive Program
© Backwater Between the Potomac River and the C&O Canal General Description Maryland Department of Natural Resources – Forest Service has established the Buffer Incentive Program (BIP) to encourage the planting and maintenance of streamside forested buffers around the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. BIP serves as an incentive for planting buffers on private land and to help defray the landowner’s costs or establishing and maintaining them. Funding and Assistance Availability Any landowner of at least one acre and not more than fifty acres which is a crop field, pasture field, open or bare ground, or early successional vegetation is eligible for participation. In addition the property must meet one of the following criteria: be within 300’ of a stream, river, pond or non-tidal wetland; be within 300’ plus 4’ for every 1% slope for slopes averaging greater than 6%; or be within the 100 year floodplain. This is a grant program that offers a onetime payment of $300 per acre upon verification of at least 65% seeding survival after one growing season. A reduced payment of 50% is payable for survival of 50% - 60%. There is open enrollment for BIP. Regional Contact Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service:
Eastern Region - (410)-543-6745, Central Region - (410)-836-4551 Southern Region - (301)-464-3065, Western Region - (301)-777-2137
This page was last updated 01/05/01 |
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The Forest Conservancy District Board for Baltimore County 9405 Old Harford Road Baltimore, Maryland 21234 (410) 665-5820 Email Robert Prenger ....... rprenger@dnr.state.md.us Melvin Noland ....... mlnoland@bcpl.net
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