The Missouri/Madison Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), the first CREP project in Montana, reaches more than 500 miles from Hebgen Dam to the Fred Robinson Bridge, and encompasses more than 338,000 private land acres. The project area includes nine counties along the Missouri and Madison River corridors. Producers within Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Gallatin,...
Montana agricultural producer Steve Carney produces spring wheat and durum on 6,000 acres in northeastern Montana. Steve has enrolled 2,500 acres of his land in CRP to increase the efficiency of his farming operation and to enhance wildlife habitat. Most of the Carney's CRP acreage is on land characterized as highly erodible sandy soil....
Protecting one of the largest, most ecologically valuable wetland complexes in southwest Montana is a big job, and it takes a complex partnership of state and federal agencies, private organizations, and individual determination to get it done. That partnership is the Montana Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). ...
A large portion of the CRP acreage in Montana lies along the "highline," an area near the Canadian border where the winds can be extreme, causing severe wind erosion to the fine sandy loam soils....
"Since we enrolled our land in CRP," declared Montana CRP participant Jeff Hockett, "we've seen an influx of pheasants, mule deer, whitetail deer, sharptail grouse, and Hungarian partridge."...
Agricultural producer Joe Perry produces wheat and barley on 4,000 acres in northern Montana. Joe is strictly a no-till operator. He has enrolled 180 acres in CRP to increase the efficiency of his farming operation and to enhance wildlife habitat....
