FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 29, 2005
Contact: Spence Jackson, (573) 751-0290
Blunt Announces Over $500,000 in Conservation Grants
JEFFERSON CITY—Gov. Matt Blunt today announced that Missouri has received more than $500,000 in federal grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Missouri was awarded $420,900 under the Bush Administration’s Landowner Incentive Program (LIP). The program supports joint efforts with private landowners who are interested in conserving natural habitat for species at risk. The program is funded through competitive grants with funding from the federal Soil and Water Conservation Fund. For more information about LIP visit http://federalaid.fws.gov/lip/lipguidelines.html.
The Missouri Prairie Foundation was awarded $100,000 for grassland habitant management in Vernon, St. Clair and Dade counties through the Private Stewardship Grants Program. The foundation will use a combination of arranged fire, grazing, woody species removal, exotic species eradication and native species establishment to improve habitat for Mead’s milkweed, geocarpon, prairie grass pink orchid and greater prairie chicken.
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