Wildlife Habitat Studies

CRP enhances wildlife habitat. The grass, trees, and wetlands established by CRP benefit numerous wildlife species. Several studies have identified benefits to multiple wildlife populations.

Reports from MAE studies that measure wildlife benefits are listed below. Click the title to view the report.

Project Reports and Articles

Title	Authors	Year
Efficiency of the Conservation Reserve Program in Context of Focused Landscape Management for Northern Bobwhites and Associated Species (648 KB, PDF)	Yeiser, Martin, Dailey, and Foley	2019
Effectiveness Monitoring of the Conservation Reserve Program and Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative for Managing the Biodiversity Grassland Birds in the Southern Great Plains (972 KB, PDF)	Pavlacky and Green	2018
Developing Decision Support Tools for Optimizing Retention and Placement of Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands in the Northern Great Plains for Grassland Birds (3 MB, PDF)	Fields, Barnes, Niemuth, Iovanna, Ryba, and Moore	2017
Extending removal and distance-removal models for abundance estimation by modeling detections in continuous time (1 MB, PDF)	Martin-Schwarze	2017
Amphibians, Pesticides, and the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in Restored Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes (1 MB, PDF)	Reeves, Pierce, Vandever, Muths, and Smalling	2017
Lesser Prairie Chicken Fence Collision Risk Across Its Northern Distribution (1 MB, PDF)	Robinson, Haukos, Plumb, Hagen, Pitman, Lautenbach, Sullins, Kraft, and Lautenbach	2016
Restored Agricultural Wetlands in central Iowa: Habitat Quality and Amphibian Response (653 KB, PDF)	Reeves, Pierce, Smalling, Klaver, Vandever, Battaglin, and Muths	2015
Management of Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands to Meet Wildlife Habitat Objectives (31 MB, PDF)	Vandever and Allen	2015
Economic Contribution, Impacts, and Economic Benefits of Deer, Waterfowl and Upland Game Bird Hunting in North and South Dakota: Relationship to CRP Lands (941 KB, PDF)	Loomis and Haefele	2015
Assessing the Biological Benefits of the USDA-Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for Waterfowl and Grassland Passerines in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States: Spatial analyses for targeting CRP to maximize benefits for migratory birds (3 MB, PDF)	Drum, Loesch, Carrlson, Doherty, and Fedy	2015
Lesser Prairie Chicken - Lesser Prairie-Chicken Movement, Space Use, Survival, and Response to Anthropogenic Structures in Kansas and Colorado (2 MB, PDF)	Plumb	2015
Lesser Prairie Chicken - Lesser Prairie-Chicken Reproductive Success, Habitat Selection, and Response to Trees (1 MB, PDF)	Lautenbach	2015
Pesticide concentrations in frog tissue and wetland habitats in a landscape dominated by agriculture (2 MB, PDF)	Smalling, Reeves, Muths, Vandever, Battaglin, Hladik, and Pierce	2015
Lesser Prairie Chicken - A Historical Record of Land Cover Change of The Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range in Kansas (3 MB, PDF)	Spencer	2014
Estimating the Effect of the Conservation Reserve Program on Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Wildlife Species (2 MB, PDF)	Benton, Hammerson, McNees, Menard, and White	2012
Conservation Reserve Program CP33–Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds Bird Monitoring and Evaluation Plan 2006–2008 Final Report (3 MB, PDF)	Evans, Burger, Smith, and Riffell	2009
Estimating the Response of Ring-necked Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) to the Conservation Reserve Program (2 MB, PDF)	Nielson, McDonald, Sullivan, Burgess, Johnson, Johnson, Bucholtz, Hyberg, and Howlin	2008
Recreational Use & Economics of Conservation Reserve (CRP) Acreage: A National Survey of Landowners (1 MB, PDF)	Allen and Witter	2008
Waterfowl Response to CRP and Swampbuster Provision in the Prairie Pothole Region, 1992 – 2004 (1 MB, PDF)	Shaffer	2007
Benefits of the CRP to Grassland Bird Populations in the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota and South Dakota (2 MB, PDF)	Niemuth, Quamen, Naugle, Reynolds, Estey and Shaffer	2007
Fish and Wildlife Response to Farm Bill Conservation Practices (2 MB, PDF)	Haufler, ed.	2007
Estimating Wildlife Response to the Conservation Reserve Program: Bobwhite and Grassland Birds (491 KB, PDF)	Riffell and Burger	2006
Estimating Response of Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) to the Conservation Reserve Program (691 KB, PDF)	Nielson, McDonald, Sullivan, Burgess, Johnson, and Howlin	2006
Use of Conservation Reserve Program fields by greater sage-grouse and other shrubsteppe-associated wildlife in Washington state (4 MB, PDF)	Schroeder and Vander Haegen	2006