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, Lewis and Clark, Madison and Phillips counties may be eligible to participate in the program.

The goal of the Missouri/Madison CREP project is to improve water quality along the rivers' corridors and is designed to maximize the opportunity for Federal, State, and private funding to improve riparian, in-stream, and upland habitat restoration and enhancement within the corridor areas.

The project assists farmers and ranchers in improving the water quality of a two-mile wide corridor along the Missouri and Madison River systems. The project will take place in three phases.