"Project Counties: Sedgwick, Phillips, Logan, Yuma, and Kit Carson Counties, (addition of Morgan, Washington, Cheyenne, Prowers, Baca, and Kiowa Counties subject to amendment and CRP acre availability)"

"September 20, 2005."

This Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) proposal describes a cooperative program that focuses on providing permanent cover for wildlife while maintaining environmentally friendly wheat fallow farming over a larger area, and adding economic stability to producers within the region. This concept uses multiple federal and state programs to address a variety of resource concerns, while maintaining the agriculturally based viability of the region. The CREP and state cost-shares and state incentives would provide for the establishment of permanent cover, while the Delayed Minimum Tillage (DMT) would be used for management purposes on adjacent acres - thereby increasing the area of environmental benefit beyond the CREP acres. Reducing herbicide use, maintaining adequate amounts of permanent and residual cover for habitat, improving water quality, preventing soil erosion and providing public access would be the main objectives of the CREP.