Habitat Conservation Lease Program
Program Information:
Match Requirement: No Match Required
Sub Funding Type: Implementation or On-The-Ground Work, Conservation Easements, Other
Funding Type: Other
Funding Source: State
Organization Name: MT Fish Wildlife & Parks
Eligible Applicants: Private Individual
Categories:
FWP is offering a Habitat Conservation Lease Program with the primary goal of ensuring expansive, long-term habitat conservation that effectively addresses habitat conversion and fragmentation threats for high priority wildlife habitats at a landscape scale. The program offers voluntary, incentive-based lease opportunities for private landowners to maintain priority habitats on up to 500,000 acres for a 30-year or 40-year period. The basic intent of the conservation lease program is to retain substantial blocks of high priority native or restored wildlife habitats while keeping working agricultural lands as working lands.FWP pays landowners a one-time per-acre fee for the lease.